Kverneland Group


Kverneland Group is an international agriculture equipment manufacturing company. The company is known for developing, producing, and distributing agricultural machinery and services to the farming community. Kverneland Group is currently covering the areas of soil and seeding equipment, forage and bale equipment, spreading, spraying and electronic solutions for agricultural tractors and machinery.

Company history

Kverneland Group was established by Ole Gabriel Kverneland in 1879. It became a limited company in 1894 and by the 1920s it had become Norway's largest supplier of agricultural products, particularly in ploughs.. Kverneland remained a family-owned business until the company was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in 1983. Since the mid 1990s Kverneland Group has expanded through acquisitions of other manufacturers of agricultural implements.
In 2010, Kverneland Group formed a long-term joint venture with Gallignani s.p.a. with a new range of round balers, wrappers and a new range of drum mowers. In 2011, Kverneland Group opened a new assembly plant in Daqing, China. In 2012, Kubota Corporation, acquired Kverneland Group. Kverneland Group was delisted from the Oslo Stock Exchange in May 2012.
The company headquarters are located in Klepp, in the village of Kvernaland. Kverneland Group employs approximately 2,400 people worldwide, most of them in Europe. Kverneland Group owns the implement brands Kverneland and Vicon.
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.