Bernard Krone Holding SE & Co. KG is an agricultural technology and commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Spelle in the Emsland district, Lower Saxony.

Subsequently, Krone secured the distribution rights for Heinrich Lanz AG within the Emsland district and began to develop and market its own agricultural machinery.

With the development of a patented animal-operated pasture trough, the company assumed its role as both distributor and manufacturer of agricultural equipment.

[6] In the late 1950s, Bernard Krone I, the son of the company's founder, invented the Optimat manure spreader, which was intended to make agricultural field work easier.

[6][10] After his father's death in 1970, Bernard Krone III took over,[11] and the company started producing trailers and semi-trailers for transporting goods on the road.

[12] As sales and profits stagnated in the beginning of the 1980s, Krone hired external consulting firms to get to the bottom of the reason for the economic downturn.

Since 1980, Metallbau Schmees GmbH in Lower Saxony has been Krone's supplier for assemblies, main beams and chassis as well as several individual parts.

[16] In 2007, Krone began building a new assembly plant including a paint shop in Istanbul for €30 million, to produce agricultural machinery and trailers.

On August 1, 2011, the company's agricultural technology sales and services (LVD) was spun off from Bernard Krone Holding.

[18][19] In 2012, a production site for the commercial vehicle division was opened in Tire, Turkey,[20] where Krone produces chassis for containers and trailers for the Turkish market as well as for export to North Africa and the Middle East.

[27] Also in 2017, the Krone Group founded the startup Rytle with the Bremen consulting company Orbitak, which produces electric-powered cargo bikes that can be used to transport goods in cities.

[39] The Brüggen company manufactures swap systems and so-called dry freight boxes at the Herzlake location,[40] while refrigerated semi-trailers are produced in Lübtheen.

[2] Flatbed semi-trailers and container chassis are produced in Tire in Turkey,[48] while moving floor trailers for the European market are manufactured at the Deurne site in the Netherlands.

[51][52] Machines on offer include disc mowers, rotary tedders, round bale and large pack presses[50] as well as loading and transport wagons.

At the Spelle location in Germany, Krone is investing in robot-assisted processing technology and in the digitalization of agricultural machinery.