At Duluth’s annual Fall Festival parade last Saturday, a familiar sight rumbled by in the scoop of a tractor: the sturdy black lettering and red triangle of the AGCO Corporation brand.
The agricultural machinery company’s headquarters, just a few miles away on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, are immediately recognizable, with its glass-semicircled atrium and industrial farm vehicles parked on the lawn.
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