Who Owns McCormick?

The McCormick name is one of the oldest in mechanized agriculture. Cyrus McCormick demonstrated his mechanical reaper in 1831 and built a Chicago manufacturing business that merged into International Harvester Company in 1902. International Harvester sold McCormick-branded tractors through the first half of the 20th century, and the name remained on the company's farm line into the 1980s.

When J.I. Case acquired International Harvester's agricultural division in 1985 to form Case IH, the McCormick name was gradually retired from new tractors in favor of Case IH branding. It lay dormant through the 1990s until the Fiat-Case merger negotiations created an opening.

In 2000, as Fiat combined Case and New Holland into CNH Global, Argo SpA, the Morra family company that already owned Landini, purchased the McCormick trademark and the British-built McCormick tractor product line. Argo relaunched McCormick as a full tractor range in 2001, initially building machines at the former Doncaster, England plant before consolidating all production at its Fabbrico, Italy base over the following years.

The modern brand settled into a clear position: Argo's premium, higher-horsepower marque covering utility and field tractors from around 70 to 370 horsepower, while Landini serves specialized orchard and vineyard work. Argo brought production back entirely to Italy, opened a dedicated transmissions plant at Campagnola in early 2025, and sells McCormick in more than 100 countries through about 130 importers and a dealer network shared with Landini.

The brand celebrated a quarter-century under Argo ownership in 2025, by which time McCormick had become the group's principal export name for open-field and high-technology tractors.