Kubota Tractor Corp. (KTC) and Kubota Credit Corp. will relocate their headquarters to Grapevine, Texas. The move will affect about 180 employees and is expected to happen within the next 18 months.
“This restructuring and relocation to Texas aligns with our strategic business objectives to strengthen Kubota’s brand in the U.S. marketplace, enter new industry segments and to position our company for long-term, sustainable growth in North America,” said KTC President and CEO Masato Yoshikawa. “California has been good to us, but it makes better business sense for us to be centrally located.”
The move of Kubota’s entire Torrance, Calif., corporate headquarters to Texas will put the company’s leadership and professional staff closer to its major markets and its manufacturing, assembly and distribution facilities in Georgia and Kansas. By centrally locating more of its operations, Kubota said it will be able to respond more quickly to changes in markets and the industry and streamline its operations for both dealer and customer benefit.
The move will be conducted in stages to avoid disruption to Kubota’s daily operations. Construction on the Texas facility will begin this year and completion is scheduled for 2017.
