Also known as DAF Trucks, DAF Trucks (Netherlands)
Netherlands branch of American manufacturer Paccar
Key facts
- Company type
- Subsidiary PLC , ( Naamloze vennootschap )
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Founded
- 1928 ; 98 years ago ( 1928 )
- Founder
- Van Doorne brothers ( Hub and Wim )
- Headquarters
- Eindhoven , Netherlands
- Key people
- Harald Seidel (President) Ron Borsboom (Executive Director Product Development) Richard Zink (Director Marketing & Sales) Frans Nagtegaal (CEO)
- Products
- Trucks
- Total equity
- $ 1.7 billion
- Parent
- Paccar
- Subsidiaries
- Tatra Trucks (19%) DAF Trucks Australia
- Website
- www.daf.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1928
- Location
- Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
DAF Trucks is a Dutch truck manufacturing company and a division of Paccar. DAF originally stood for van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek. Its headquarters and main plant are in Eindhoven. Cabs and axle assemblies are produced at its Westerlo plant in Belgium. Some of the truck models sold with the DAF brand are designed and built by Leyland Trucks at its Leyland plant in the United Kingdom.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “DAF” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.