Located in the heart of the Entre-Vesdre-et-Meuse region, in Herve country, east of Liège in Belgium, a grassy agricultural plateau known for its Herve cheese. This is where the headquarters of the Joskin Group is located, a company that has made a name for itself in agricultural machinery. “It was my father, Victor Joskin, who founded the company in 1968, initially an agricultural contracting business, thanks to the equipment of my grandparents’. My father then invested in his own equipment to strengthen the fieldwork service offered to other farmers,” recalls Didier Joskin, CEO and production manager of the group.
But Victor Joskin didn’t stop there. He then repaired his own machines, then those of his clients, which led him to open a real repair service, and then he imported equipment that was not available in the region. Gradually, the range of distributed brands expanded, and the company then abandoned agricultural contracting to focus on repairing and importing machines. Didier Joskin continues: “In 1984, in a difficult economic context, my father decided to produce his first slurry tanker to continue offering his clients machines at reasonable prices. And just a few years later, the company had its first production plant.”
Today, the group employs over 870 people with an annual consolidated turnover of 140 million euros across five production sites in Soumagne and Thimister-Clermont (Belgium), Trzcianka (Poland), and Bourges and La-Vieille-Lyre (France).
