Articles Tagged with ''Jim Walker''

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Inaugural Farm Equipment Hall of Fame Class of 2024: Derek Stimson, Rocky Mountain Equipment

Rocky Mountain Equipment Calgary, Alta Primary Lines: Case IH, New Holland, Bourgault, Degelman, Krone, MacDon, Vaderstad, Unverferth Locations: 43
Derek Stimson got his first taste of dealership life at the age of 14 when working as a service technician at his father’s dealership, Hi-Way Service. By the time he was 18, Stimson was attending Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, while also working full-time at the Taber, Alta., dealership.
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Lack of Titling Opens Door to Business Fraud

Former dealer Lee Prunty paid a high price due to a fraudulent situation that he says could’ve been avoided entirely and could ‘still bite someone else again.’ Matthew Larsgaard, dealer association exec, adds his thoughts on lack of titling in farm machinery business.
“Your story should really be about how the sale of any motorized piece of farm equipment should have to have a title,” Lee Prunty told Farm Equipment in an October 2021 phone interview as Farm Equipment revisited the Walterman Implement mess 10 years after its in-depth coverage of how CNH and Titan Machinery unwound the infamous combine roll, bankruptcy and fraud mess left in Dike, Iowa.
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‘A Casualty’ of the Fed’s Prosecution of Leon Walterman

15 years after the unraveling of Walterman Implement, Farm Equipment interviews former Illinois dealer Lee Prunty who was sentenced as part of the landmark suit.
In late 2021, 10 years after its in-depth coverage of the 2005 unraveling of Walterman Implement’s (WI) infamous combine roll, bankruptcy and fraud mess left in Dike, Iowa, Farm Equipment reached out to dealers close to the WI situation in the early 2000s. More than one indicated they didn’t know whether what Lee Prunty, president/CEO of Walker-Schork International (WSI) initially got caught up in with Leon Walterman and WI was illegal — or ignorant.
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‘Producer-First’ Partners to be Mantra of New Case IH Exec

After 12 years of dealers (partners as Scott Harris calls them) accustomed to the same personality at the top, Harris bring a familiar yet fresh approach as the new leader of Case IH Agriculture’s North American dealer network.
In this year’s series, the third such project Farm Equipment (FE) has done since 2006, Scott Harris is the newest exec we’ve sat down with and mic’d up, having just 8 months on the job. In the 14 years our company has operated FE magazine, Case IH has shown the greatest interest of all the major lines in the relationship with FE editors and the publication’s position in the dealer universe. (That isn’t to say the coverage pleased them, but dialog and the ability to pick up the phone with our staff has been important to Case IH).
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Case IH Announces Jim Walker Retiring

In a March 23 memo to North American Case IH dealers and Case IH employees, Leandro Lecheta and Andreas Klauser announced that Vice President Jim Walker has elected to retire from the company after 11 years. Scott Harris, current Vice President of Case Construction, will transition to Case IH and lead the brand as Vice President in North America.
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