The Toro Company designs, manufactures, and markets professional turf maintenance equipment and services worldwide. Its Professional business segment offers turf and landscape equipment products, such as sports fields and grounds maintenance equipment, golf course mowing and maintenance equipment, landscape contractor mowing equipment, landscape creation and renovation equipment, rental and construction equipment, and other maintenance equipment; and irrigation and lighting products, including sprinkler heads, electric and hydraulic valves, controllers, computer irrigation central control systems, and micro-irrigation drip tape and hose products, as well as professionally installed lighting products. This segment markets its products to landscape contractor, sports fields and grounds, golf, residential/commercial irrigation and lighting, micro-irrigation, and rental and construction markets through distributors and dealers, as well as directly to government customers, rental companies, and retailers. The company's Residential business segment provides walk power mowers; riding mowers; snow throwers; replacement parts; and home solutions products, including trimmers, blowers, blower-vacuums, and underground and hose-end retail irrigation products. This segment sells its products to homeowners through a network of distributors and dealers; and an array of home centers, hardware retailers, and mass retailers, as well as through the Internet. The Toro Company sells its products primarily under the Toro, Exmark, Irritrol, Hayter, Pope, Unique Lighting Systems, Lawn-Boy, and Lawn Genie trademarks. The company was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota.