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The first Skid-Steer loader is invented and first introduced. The new Skid-Steer loader is given the name “Bobcat” to represent toughness, quickness, and agility. Clark Equipment Company purchases the company from Melroe. Bobcat becomes the first manufacturer to build Compact Excavators in North America.
- Doosan Bobcat Company Profile
As the inventor of the world's first Skid-Steer Loader,...
- Doosan Bobcat Company Profile
Bobcat Company is a member of the Doosan Group. Doosan is a global leader in construction, grounds maintenance and material handling equipment, power and water solutions, and engineering that has proudly served customers and communities for more than a century.
In 2007, Ingersoll-Rand sold Clark Equipment Company to the Doosan Group of South Korea, along with the rest of its construction equipment group for US$4.9 billion. The Clark Equipment Company now does business as Bobcat Company. Bobcat Company owns worldwide trademark registrations for its "Bobcat" name. [6]
Doosan Infracore, founded in 1896 in Seoul, South Korea, purchases Bobcat and renames it Doosan Bobcat. The company opens a brand new factory in Dobříš, Czech Republic and becomes one of the fastest growing companies in the world.
Bobcat Corporate Timeline. A farmer and inventor, Edward Gideon “E.G.” Melroe founded Melroe Manufacturing Company in Gwinner, North Dakota, in 1947. His notable inventions included the Melroe pickup, a combine attachment that would pick up windrows of grain, and the harroweeder, a spring-tooth harrow for weeding row crops.
As the inventor of the world's first Skid-Steer Loader, Doosan Bobcat is a global compact equipment manufacturer / distributor with premium brands and leading positions in multiple industry segments.
1962 marks the introduction of the M440 -- the first Bobcat-branded loader, white with red trim -- and two years later celebrates its 1000th loader. By 1969 the company builds its 10,000th loader. Another decade later (1980) the company reaches its 100,000th loader milestone.
