Results announced for the 2009 Fonterra Elections
Returning Officer Warwick Lampp, of electionz.com Ltd, has declared the final results of the 2009 Fonterra Board of Directors’ and Shareholders’ Council elections.
Shareholders voted to re-elect incumbent Directors John Wilson and Colin Armer to the Board. They will be joined by new Director Nicola Shadbolt. Incumbent Director Stuart Nattrass was not re-elected.
For the last 23 years, Nicola Shadbolt has been a partner in a Pohangina Valley farm running 960 cows. An Associate Professor in Farm and Agribusiness Management at Massey University, Nicola has extensive experience in the dairy industry. She has worked with MAF, Wrightsons and Agriculture New Zealand, is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Primary Management and co-authored the textbook ‘Farm Management in New Zealand’.
In the election for a Shareholders’ Councillor in Ward 16 – Rotorua, Greg Mitchell was elected.
In 13 of the 14 Shareholders’ Council wards where elections were due, nominees were elected unopposed. The Councillors in those wards are:
Ward 2 - Whangarei - Mark Croucher
Ward 5 - South Auckland Bill Millar
Ward 8 - Hamilton - Neil McLean
Ward 11 - Western Bay of Plenty Murray Linton
Ward 14 - Te Awamutu - Kevin Ferris
Ward 17 - Eastern Bay of Plenty - Brian Power
Ward 18 - Otorohanga - Sarah von Dadelszen
Ward 20 - Northern Taranaki - Blue Read
Ward 23 - Egmont Plains - Shona Glentworth
Ward 26 - Hawke’s Bay - Dean Nikora
Ward 29 - Tasman/Marlborough - Evan Baigent
Ward 32 - Southern Canterbury - Desiree Reid
Ward 35 - Western Southland - Philip van der Bijl
Evan Baigent, Dean Nikora and Greg Mitchell are all new Shareholders’ Councillors. Sarah von Dadelszen who currently represents Ward 26 will represent Ward 18 at the close of the 2009 Annual Meeting.
There was no election for the Directors’ Remuneration Committee as shareholders Murray King and Rodney Wilson were elected unopposed.
About Fonterra
Fonterra is a global leader in dairy nutrition – the preferred supplier of dairy ingredients to many of the world’s leading food companies. Fonterra is also a market leader with our own consumer dairy brands in Australia/New Zealand, Asia/Africa, Middle East and Latin America.
The farmer-owned New Zealand co-operative is the largest processor of milk in the world, producing more than two million tonnes of dairy ingredients, value added dairy ingredients, specialty ingredients and consumer products every year. Drawing on generations of dairy expertise, Fonterra is one of the largest investors in dairy based research and innovation in the world. Our 16,000 staff work across the dairy spectrum from advising farmers on sustainable farming and milk production, to ensuring we live up to exacting quality standards and delivering every day on our customer promise in more than 100 markets around the world.
