What Happened to Mike Wallace?
After going round 1 with Kubota and losing, Mike Wallace went looking for redder pastures. He continued to import used compact diesel tractors from Japan, dropping Kubota and importing mostly Yanmar tractors. In September 2002, he reacquainted himself with his old buddies at Gamut Trading. Since they had now been sued into the stone age by Kubota’s legal department, they did not have much need for the ZEN-NOH name anymore. Wallace asked if he could become an authorized user of Gamut’s trademark. In 2003, Gamut Trading and Wallace became business partners once again, this time in the ownership of the ZEN-NOH trademark, name, stylized print and logo! Yanmar Strikes Wallace did not have a lot of time left to savor that trademark co-ownership. By mid 2003, plans were already floating around the boardroom table at the Yanmar Motor Corporation in Japan, to form a new US subsidiary, the Yanmar Diesel America Corporation. The purpose of this new venture was to reestablish the Yanmar brand in N
