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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| Traded as | |
| Industry | Heavy equipment Engines Financial services |
| Predecessor | C. L. Best Holt Manufacturing Company |
| Founded | April 15, 1925 California, U.S. |
| Founder | C.L. Best |
| 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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| Revenue |  US$41.74 billion (2020)[1] |
| US$4.55 billion (2020)[1] | |
| US$2.99 billion (2020)[1] | |
| Total assets | US$78.32 billion (2020)[1] |
| Total equity | US$15.33 billion (2020)[1] |
Number of employees | 97,300 (2020)[2] |
| Subsidiaries | Subsidiary List
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| Website | www www |
| Footnotes / references [3][4][5][6] | |
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 Filing" (PDF). sec.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ↑ "Caterpillar 2017 SEC Filing". sec.gov. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
- ↑ "Caterpillar – About Cat". cat.com. Caterpillar Inc. 2010. Archived from the original on March 11, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
We deliver products, services and technologies in three principal lines of business: Machinery, Engines and Financial Products.
- ↑ "2009 Form 10-K". United States Securities and Exchange Commission. February 19, 2010. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
As of December 31, 2009, we employed 93,813 persons of whom 50,562 were located outside the United States.
- ↑ Haddock, Keith; Orlemann, Eric (November 11, 2001). Paul Johnson (ed.). Classic Caterpillar Crawlers. St. Paul, Minnesota, United States: MBI Publishing Company. pp. 37–38. ISBN 978-0-7603-0917-9. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
- ↑ "Caterpillar Inc. 4Q 2010 Earnings Release" (PDF). caterpillar.com. Caterpillar Inc. January 27, 2011. pp. 15, 36–37, 39. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 3, 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
Total sales and revenues....42,588
- ↑ "World's Top 10 Construction Equipment Manufacturers". Construction Kenya. January 3, 2022. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
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