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'New Holland' is a part of CNH Global, a part of the Fiat Group. New Holland branded agricultural equipment is sold around the world. It was founded by Mr. Abe Zimmerman in New Holland, PA, and was purchased by the Sperry Corporation in 1947, to form Sperry-New Holland. In 1964, it purchased a majority interest in Claeys of Belgium, a builder of combines. New Holland built lawn equipment until 1974, when that portion of the business was sold to Ariens. Ford purchased New Holland, and later sold a portion to Fiat, which later purchased the entire company. Ford/New Holland purchased the Versatile tractor company. 1998, Purchased O&K (Orenstein and Koppel), a construction equipment company. In 1998, O&K in North America was sold to Terex. In 2000, Fiat also purchased Case IH and formed CNH Global.
In order to obtain approval for the merger of New Holland with Case IH, the Versatile and Genesis tractor business was sold to Buhler Industries.
New Holland has collaborations and distribution agreements with other companies including:

★ New Holland Tractors (India) Pvt. Ltd. - builds tractors in India

★ Al-Ghazi Tractors - build Fiat New Holland tractors in Pakistan

★ Anglo-Thai Motors Ltd - imports and assembles Anglo-Thai New Holland in Thailand

★ DaeDong - imports some tractors sold as DaeDong in South Korea

★ De Pietri - Based on New Holland/Fiat designs, a reversible tractor, in Italy

★ Harbin - joint venture to build tractors in China

★ Landini/ARGO SpA - build some models for New Holland in Italy

★ LS Cable - imports/assembles? LS-New Holland (formerly LG-New Holland) tractors in South Korea

★ Shanghai - joint venture to build Shanghai New Holland tractors in China

★ Shibaura - based in Japan, build lawn & garden equipment for New Holland and CNH Global in The Netherlands.

★ TTZ - Tashkent Tractor Plant, build some New Holland tractors in Uzbekistan. A joint venture

★ Turk Traktor - joint venture in Turkey to build tractors.

★ CNH de Mexico - build New Holland tractors in Mexico

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Trivia

New Holland construction machinery appears in the latest James Bond film, Casino Royale, in which Bond drives a New Holland vehicle damaging the construction area at the beginning of the film.

External links

★ New Holland Website

★ CNH Global Website