MOLINE, Ill., Dec. 6, 2017 /CNW/ -- Deere & Company (NYSE:
DE) today announced the election of Charles
O. Holliday, Jr. to the company's Board of Directors,
effective January 1, 2018. Holliday
previously served on the Deere & Company Board from 2007 to
2016.
Holliday has been chairman of Royal
Dutch Shell since May 2015 and
previously served as chairman and chief executive officer of
DuPont, chairman of Bank of America, and chairman of the National
Academy of Engineering.
"Chad has outstanding
experience as a leader of several major organizations and has a
keen understanding of audit, compensation, and other areas of
oversight on the Boards of Directors at global corporations," said
Samuel R. Allen, Deere's chairman
and chief executive officer. "We are fortunate that Chad agreed to return to the Deere Board."
Deere & Company (www.JohnDeere.com) is a world leader in
providing advanced products and services and is committed to the
success of customers whose work is linked to the land – those who
cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich and build upon the land to
meet the world's dramatically increasing need for food, fuel,
shelter and infrastructure.
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