Despite a challenging 2020 with Covid-19, hacker attack and heavy competitive pressure, the Danish Agro group’s machinery division succeeded in achieving its biggest turnover and best operating profit to date.
The Danish Agro group’s three Baltic agribusiness companies, AS Baltic Agro in Estonia, SIA Baltic Agro in Latvia and UAB Baltic Agro in Lithuania, have had excellent results in 2020 and strengthened the group’s position as a market leader across the three countries.
Danish Agro delivered on a wide range of structural and financial goals in spite of a truly extraordinary year that confronted us both with Covid-19 and with a hacker attack. In 2020, the Danish Agro group achieved its highest turnover so far of EUR 5.3 billion, a 12% increase compared with 2019.
Helmut Claas, long-time Managing Director, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Shareholders' Committee of the CLAAS group, died on January 5 at the age of 94.
An international jury of 26 specialist journalists has selected the CLAAS AXION 960 CEMOS as their Sustainable Tractor of the Year 2021. For CLAAS, the award underlines the relevance and uniqueness of the CEMOS for Tractors dialog system.
CLAAS, one of the leading international manufacturers of agricultural machinery, increased its sales in the 2020 financial year by 3.7 percent to 4.042 billion euros (previous year: 3.898 billion euros). Pre-tax earnings rose to 158 million euros (previous year: 136 million euros); the free cash flow achieved a substantial turnaround into the profit zone with 308 million euros (previous year: -138
In a comprehensive test conducted by the German Agricultural Society (DLG), the CLAAS dialogue system CEMOS for Tractors impressively demonstrated its superior ability to increase overall efficiency. An optimisation potential of up to 21 percent was recorded for cultivation work – on a sustained basis.
Lannaskede Lantbruksprodukter blir servicepartner till Swedish Agro Machinery. – Detta gör att vi kommer bli en fullserviceanläggning i Vetlanda, lantbrukaren ska inte behöva inte åka någon annanstans för att få hjälp med sina maskiner och inköp, säger en av delägarna Erik Steen.
Due to multiple requests from customers HORSCH now launches a 3-meter version of the well-proven StripTill line Focus to offer a solution for smaller tractors and smaller farm to combine strip tillage and sowing.
Nu kan kunder fritt utbyta maskindata mellan CLAAS, 365FarmNet och John Deere när DataConnect lanseras. Fler partners kommer att ansluta till systemet.
Hasse Ripa blir ny vd för Swedish Agro Machinery. Hasse har lång erfarenhet från lantbruksbranschen och har under det senaste året varit försäljningschef i företaget.
Swedish Agro Machinery inleder ett samarbete med Söderberg & Haaks återförsäljare Bil och Traktor Högbro AB på Gotland.
