Husqvarna Sold to John Deere!!

[Darin]

I was told today, by a very good source (inside source) that Husky was sold to John Deere! Thought you might be interested. If you notice all the small JD stores are going away as they are not renewing dealers. They only want stores with multiple dealerships or very large dealers. It could be a few years, but it could happen with the Husky dealers on a trickle down effect. FYI

 

[Lawn Masters]

hmmm, interesting. I'm going to ask a few of the contacts I have in sweden about this.

 

[1Alpha1]

Yup.....I heard the same thing.

 

[woodsrider]

Hmmm....orange and green saws...

 

[Lakeside53]

maybe they'll just mix to brown, and UPS will stick their logo on them..

 

[pbtree]

Nothing mentioned here...

http://www.electrolux.com/node527.asp

 

[Bob Wright]

If you do a Google search with Husky and John Deere, it comes up with the X Pres of JD taking over Husky Injection Molding, but thats not the chainsaw people. Guess we will have to wait and see...Bob

 

[Darin]

True, he didn't get into it much but I found it interesting. It could be as little as moulding, but as much as the whole enchillada.

 

[trimmmed]

Electrolux is a company that expands through aquisition, and I would be surprised if they would sell anything at all that wasn't a complete dog on the books.

 

[Darin]

This is true, but JD has huge bucks. They should have got rid of poulan instead.

 

[asb151]

I have a John Deere tractor dealer nearby that also sells Husky saws. I'll stop by and see what they know. If anything.

 

[16gauge]

This seems unlikely. JD already has a line of saws and E-lux has really capitalized on the Husky franchise. Parents bought an orange walk-begind mower this year...with a Honda engine! Well, now that I think about it, anything is possible.

 

[Lawn Masters]

This is true, but JD has huge bucks. They should have got rid of poulan instead.

Somehow, I dont think they'd do that, since Poulan sells better with homeowners than ANY saw brand I know of.

 

[spacemule]

Crap like this comes up all the time. Remember the big rumor that Ford bought Cummins and was going to start using their motors? I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Lawn Masters]

I kinda think this husky being sold to JD deal is not true, since I cant find anything on it, and I havent heard anything more on it. theres a lot of speculation, but no hard proof.

 

[bwalker]

Crap like this comes up all the time. Remember the big rumor that Ford bought Cummins and was going to start using their motors? I'll believe it when I see it

Ford did buy a nice chunk of cummins stock and they do, to this day use Cummins engines in 450 series and up trucks. If thats not a testiment to the powerchoke being a roach, I do not know what is.

 

[Lawn Masters]

BUT, ford no longer owns that cummins stock, though the Cummins IS an option in the larger commercial duty F series trucks.

 

[bwalker]

Thats correct. Cummins purchased the stock back a few years back.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Since they are publicly traded companies, they are required to disclose such deals pretty early in the process. If anything has actually been signed, we'd ALL know about it.

 

[Darin]

Yeah, it just came from a Husky sales rep. So there has to be some truth to it. Maybe something like a die plant or....