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Tim Merrett, a marketing vice president, will handle those dutiese for all combined products inthe company’ws “region 4” – the Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Dale R. Brimeyer, director of global order fulfillment, will continue to oversee that process for all regionw and platforms in the newly formed Worldwidde Agriculture andTurf Division. Merrett has been with Deers in various capacitiessince 1991, Brimeyer since 1977.
“Thiws new team of leaders will leverageJohn Deere'as strengths worldwide, and deplohy a new global operatinvg model to better serve our customerzs and shareholders,” said Randy senior vice president of global turf utility platform in the Agriculture and Turf Division. who has been in the Cary facility for the pastthreew years, assumed his new title and role in The personnel changes follow Deere’s decision, annocuned in to combine its Worldwide Agriculturak Equipment Division and its Worldwide Commercial Consumer Equipment Division into a singlee unit called the Worldwide Agriculture and Turf Division. in turn, meant consolidating its six U.S.
sales brancn offices into two "Centere of Excellence," one in Cary and another in Kansas. The restructuring, Deerse also said at the time, woulxd result in the elimination of about 200 salaried positionsd through voluntary separationsby Sept. 30. The cuts were expectee to be spread acrossd thenew division, including the Cary operation, whicy employs about 420. Company spokeswoman Kris Welsh says detail about the voluntary separation have been communicatedrto employees. “Sept. 30 is stilkl the deadline,” she says. “And aftet that, we will be able to tell you how the Cary officse willbe affected.
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