Re: AGCO rant

Posted by WIZZO on December 31, 2014 at 11:57:29 from (217.39.64.203):

In Reply to: AGCO rant posted by Bob Bancroft on December 29, 2014 at 16:05:19:

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In Britain JD started this business practice, forcing neighbouring dealers to take-over other areas & companies, JD stated in the farming press they only want a few super dealers in the Country.

MF have now followed the same suite - forcing dealers to join together and become multi branch outfits.

Years ago when Kubota came here, many MF dealers took on the Kubota franchise for compacts & garden machinery and were very successful. About 10 years ago when Kubota launched its first larger agricultural tractors, these MF dealers were given the choice sell MF only or Kubota only. Some MF dealers went Kubota and have done well selling to larger tractors to Councils etc and to smaller livestock farms.

These main Agco MF dealers also have to handle Challenger & Fendt & Valtra depending on the type of farming in the individual farming areas.

Ford & New Holland have always had independent dealerships and many have been dealers for a long time. There are a few large multi branch NH dealers. When NH bought Case IH, they run their two brands seperately. Either as independents selling one or other brand; a few NH dealers own CaseIH dealerships but they have to be run independently of each other.

Renault were always small dealerships, not taking much market share. When Claas bought Renault they forced their very successfull combine & forage machinery dealers to drop other tractor brands and only sell Claas. They had mechanical issues and secondhand Claas {Renault} tractors were worth very little secondhand. The latest Claas models have improved but still have the bad reputation to get over. Claas just announced their all new sub-100HP tractors are being made in Italy by Same-Duetz-Fahr with engines made in India.



All the main manufacturers want few dealers covering large areas of the Country through multi-branches. And they are having sub-100HP tractors built in China, India, Turkey etc to keep down their build costs.

Its now Worldwide Agri-Business.

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