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Company type | Public |
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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 |
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Services | Services List
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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 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.
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.
We deliver products, services and technologies in three principal lines of business: Machinery, Engines and Financial Products.
As of December 31, 2009, we employed 93,813 persons of whom 50,562 were located outside the United States.
Total sales and revenues....42,588