Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc. is an American company that manufactures engines and machinery for mining and construction projects. It also provides insurance and loans for businesses to buy their products. The company is the largest manufacturer of construction machinery in the world.[7] It produces equipment such as excavators, bulldozers and mining trucks.
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| Company type | Public |
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| Headquarters | Deerfield, Illinois, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Jim Umpleby (chairman |
| Products | Products List
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| Services | Services List
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| Total equity |  US$15.33 billion (2020)[1] |
| Subsidiaries | Subsidiary List
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| Website | www www |
| Footnotes / references [2][3][4][5] | |
Caterpillar Inc. is a public company and trades on the NASDAQ under the stock ticker CAT. Caterpillar stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The company was founded on April 15, 1925 in California. It is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois.
Subsidiaries
Caterpillar owns several smaller companies. Some of these have changed their names and become part of the Caterpillar brand. Others have kept their own name.
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Caterpillar Inc. Media
Benjamin Holt, one of the founders of Holt Manufacturing Company
The Holt 75 model gasoline-powered Caterpillar tractor used early in World War I as an artillery tractor. Later models were produced without the front "tiller wheel", c. 1914.
The Holt Caterpillar Co. factory in East Peoria, Illinois, in 1910. Tractors were assembled in place before assembly lines were introduced. Holt bought the plant from the bankrupt Colean Manufacturing Co. in 1910.
A postcard showing the Caterpillar Tractor Co. plant in Peoria, period 1930–1945
A 60-horsepower Caterpillar Sixty being used for road work in the Cibola National Forest, New Mexico, United States in 1931
A Caterpillar D2, introduced in 1938, at the Serpentine Vintage Tractor Museum, Serpentine, Western Australia
Excavator displayed at the 2021 Changsha International Construction Equipment Exhibition, in Changsha, Hunan, China
Caterpillar 906H2 wheel loader
Twin Caterpillar 3208T engines powering the Clogher Head lifeboat (Ireland)
Caterpillar Paver at naval aircraft taxiway in Jacksonville, Florida
Other websites
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Caterpillar 2020 SEC Filingsec.gov. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
- ↑ Caterpillar – About Cat. cat.com (2010)Caterpillar Inc. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
- ↑ 2009 Form 10-K (2010-02-19)United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
- ↑ Haddock, Keith. Classic Caterpillar Crawlers (2001-11-11). St. Paul, Minnesota, United States: MBI Publishing Company. p. 37–38. ISBN 978-0-7603-0917-9. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ↑ Caterpillar Inc. 4Q 2010 Earnings Release. caterpillar.com (2011-01-27)Caterpillar Inc.. p. 15, 36–37, 39. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
- ↑ Caterpillar 2017 SEC Filingsec.gov. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ↑ World's Top 10 Construction Equipment Manufacturers. Construction Kenya (3 January 2022). Retrieved 9 May 2022.
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