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A supplier shoutout, Deere-style
Deere & Company is turning into the teacher who gives out gold stars — and Thoughtworks just got one of the shiny ones. The company named the global tech consultancy a Partner-level supplier in its Achieving Excellence Program, Deere’s top supplier rating.
That’s not the same as signing a giant new contract or buying a company, so nobody should expect fireworks in the stock chart. But for Deere, supplier quality matters. If you’re building massive machines and digital tools for a global manufacturing operation, you don’t want flaky vendors. You want the ones that show up, ship clean code, and don’t make your operations team age five years overnight.
Why investors should care
This kind of recognition can hint at a few things:
- Deere sees Thoughtworks as a dependable partner for digital and engineering work
- It suggests the relationship is active enough to matter inside Deere’s supplier ecosystem
- It reinforces the idea that Deere keeps leaning on tech-enabled operations, not just tractors and combine harvesters
Is this a huge catalyst? No. But it does tell you something about how Deere manages the less glamorous side of the business. The company’s machine-making empire runs on a lot more than steel and hydraulics — software, data, and industrial know-how are part of the recipe too.
Big picture
Think of it like a restaurant giving a back-of-house supplier an A-plus rating. Nobody buys the stock because of the plaque on the wall, but it can still say a lot about who’s trusted to keep the operation moving. For Deere, this is another small signal that the machine behind the machines is running smoothly.