John Deere reducing dealerships

[Phil P]

Apparently it’s time to blow the dust off this thread…

Who’s for the chop this time?

 

[ford 7810]

Who’s for the chop this time?

Are they at it again

 

[Phil P]

Are they at it again

waiting on @PSQ to spill the beans.

 

[M-J-G]

Dealerships have has a lot of changes with Fendt, Claas, Deutz and JD being the only ones that have remained as they were (although ive heard some rumours about JD)

JD have gained some ground in the past couple of years.

 

[L P]

waiting on @PSQ to spill the beans.

Not sure of the latest, but on good authority from an ex JD franchise they want to get down to four franchises in the UK.

 

[Goffer]

Not sure of the latest, but on good authority from an ex JD franchise they want to get down to four franchises in the UK.

Oh Deere

 

[Landrover]

Apparently it’s time to blow the dust off this thread…

I hope it's nothing to do with a firm covering Northumberland and the Scottish borders ! Trying to buy a tractor off them at the moment!

 

[thorpe]

Oh Deere

arn't they tit's? we trade with a small claas dealer, if they sack them it would be thier loss because we don
t want to go to a facless yard with electric door's at reception!

 

[daveydiesel1]

Any guesses who will be left

 

[L P]

arn't they tit's? we trade with a small claas dealer, if they sack them it would be thier loss because we don
t want to go to a facless yard with electric door's at reception!

It's quite sad to see, I'm not loyal to deere but I am to the chaps I deal with. I'd not want to be in their shoes, be unsurprised if the whole dealer network doesn't implode under pressure and JD will wade in and buy them out making them totally beholden to save face, when they are the guys who put in decades of footwork for the customer base.

 

[L P]

Any guesses who will be left

Farol, Hunt Forest (Smart) Burgess and a northern one

 

[spin cycle]

what's the advantage of having fewer bigger franchises?

 

[Cheesehead]

what's the advantage of having fewer bigger franchises?

They can up their prices.

 

[L P]

what's the advantage of having fewer bigger franchises?

Pressure to perform, which will be exponential to increased overheads. Oh I'm pee'd off editing expidential now, I know what I mean...

 

[tweedale terrier]

what's the advantage of having fewer bigger franchises?

The economics of scale I guess. Not something we are going to see much more of in agriculture imo. Big big big.

 

[Cheesehead]

Out of interest does anyone know why Doe was urged to setup a Case depot down the road from Haynes NH one when CNH dropped Agwood years ago because they wanted both brands under the same dealer group in the area hence the Haynes Birchington Case depot?

 

[L P]

Out of interest does anyone know why Doe was urged to setup a Case depot down the road from Haynes NH one when CNH dropped Agwood years ago because they wanted both brands under the same dealer group in the area hence the Haynes Birchington Case depot?

Although under the CNH brand they seem to want to keep them seperate. I don't know why, possibly because the Austrians put them together better and they don't wish to put the boys at Basildon out of work, so they seperate them.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

what's the advantage of having fewer bigger franchises?

Shaft customers....

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Out of interest does anyone know why Doe was urged to setup a Case depot down the road from Haynes NH one when CNH dropped Agwood years ago because they wanted both brands under the same dealer group in the area hence the Haynes Birchington Case depot?

Funny thing here is our two nearest CNH dealers have both New Holland and Case IH.

 

[oil barron]

what's the advantage of having fewer bigger franchises?

They can buy an X9, 8800i, or 8RX as a stock machine to demo out. Not that it matters for Scotland, only sheep and heather above Stonehaven anyway.