SIC 3524 Lawn and Garden Tractors and Home Lawn and Garden Equipment
SIC 3524
This entry discusses establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing lawn mowers, lawn and garden tractors, and other lawn and garden equipment used for home lawn and garden care. It also includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing snowblowers and throwers for residential use. Other equipment classified here includes: wagons and carts for lawn and garden use, lawn mover grass catchers, power hedge trimmers, power lawn edgers, loaders for garden tractors, mulchers, plow attachments for garden tractors, rototillers, seeders, and residential lawn vacuums.
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing farm equipment and machinery are classified in SIC 3523: Farm Machinery and Equipment. Those manufacturing hand lawn and garden shears and pruners are classified in SIC 3421: Cutlery, and those manufacturing other garden handtools are classified in SIC 3424: Hand and Edge Tools, Except Machine Tools and Handsaws.
333112
Lawn and Garden Tractor and Home Lawn and Garden Equipment Manufacturing
332212
Hand and Edge Tool Manufacturing
Lawn and garden equipment companies manufacture a variety of tools, including walk-behind power mowers, lawn tractors, tillers, string trimmers, leaf blowers, snow blowers, and other gas- and electric-powered equipment. In 2000, the value of industry shipments was $7.28 billion. Lawn and garden equipment manufacturers are influenced by a number of factors, such as weather conditions, the housing market, demographics, and the overall economy. The industry has been strong in the late 1990s, as aging and affluent baby boomers—those consumers born between 1947 and 1964—take up gardening and buy high-end equipment.
In the late 1990s, the industry was comprised of 145 establishments. Wisconsin supported the greatest number of lawn and garden equipment manufacturers with 12 companies, followed by Pennsylvania with 10 and California with 7. With shipments valued at $3.57 billion, consumer non-riding lawn, garden and snow equipment outperformed the riding varieties in the late 1990s. Nevertheless, the future of riding lawn and garden equipment looks promising, as baby boomers seek out less strenuous tools.
The nation's enthusiastic interest in lawn maintenance is relatively new, though the lawn mower itself (developed in England) has been around since the 1830s. During the same time John Deere was promoting his sod-breaking plow as the most important piece of equipment frontier farmers of the prairie could own, the push lawn mower was familiar to children of antebellum America.
In the 1930s, U.S. lawn mower sales held at about 50,000 units annually. Following World War II and the American migration to suburbs, homeowners began to take a growing pride in tending their...
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