Profile
Kverneland Group is a leading international company developing, producing and distributing agricultural machinery and services. Strong focus on innovation allows us to provide a unique and broad product range with high quality. Kverneland Group offers an extensive package aimed at the professional farming community, covering the areas of soil and seeding equipment, forage and bale equipment, spreading, spraying and electronic solutions for agricultural tractors and machinery.

The Group was founded in 1879. Kverneland Group’s factories are located in Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Russia and China. The Group has own sales companies in 17 countries and exports to another 60 countries. At the end of 2014, Kverneland Group had a turnover of EUR 497.3 million and 2 487 employees, of which 73.3% worked outside Norway. Kverneland Group was in 2012 bought by the Japanese company Kubota Corporation.

Group Management

Dai Watanabe, President & CEO
Wataru Ouchi, Executive Vice President Corporate Strategy & Planning
Hasan Kesek, Executive Vice President Soil Equipment
Claus U. Thomsen, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of BA Forage Equipment and Head of Group R&D
Arild Gjerde, Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing
Magne Svendsen, Executive Vice President BA After Sales and BA Crop Care