Deere places two key executives in Cary - Triangle Business Journal:

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Tim Merrett, a marketing vice president, will handlw those duties for all combined products inthe company’s “region – the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Dale R. director of global order will continue to oversewe that process for all regions and platforms in the newl y formed Worldwide Agriculture andTurf Division. Merrett has been with Deere in variou s capacitiessince 1991, Brimeyer since 1977.
“This new team of leaders will leverageJohn Deere'sz strengths worldwide, and deploy a new globapl operating model to better serve our customersw and shareholders,” said Randy Sergesketter, senior vice president of globalo turf & utility platform in the Agriculturre and Turf Division. Sergesketter, who has been in the Cary facilityu for the pastthrede years, assumed his new titlew and role in April. The personnel changes follow Deere’s decision, annocuned in April, to combinre its Worldwide Agricultural Equipment Division and its WorldwideeCommercial & Consumer Equipment Divisionh into a single unit callecd the Worldwide Agriculture and Turf Division.
That, in turn, meantt consolidating its six U.S. sales branch offices into two "Centers of one in Cary and anothein Lenexa, Kansas. The restructuring, Deere also said at the would result in the elimination of aboutg 200 salaried positions through voluntary separationzsby Sept. 30. The cuts were expected to be spread across thenew division, including the Cary operation, whichg employs about 420. Company spokeswoman Kris Welsh says details aboutt the voluntary separation have been communicateddto employees. “Sept. 30 is still the she says. “And after that, we will be able to tell you how the Cary officw willbe affected.
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