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European Flour Millers Association
names new president
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - Bernard
Valluis has been elected as the new president
of the European Flour Millers' Association.
He takes over the post for the coming two
years from Gary Sharkey, who has led the
association for the last three years.
"Bernard Valluis is one of our most accomplished colleagues for that position,
and I wish him all the success possible in
his presidency. The European Flour Millers'
Association has always used a strong sector
expertise base as a foundation for its work
with the public institutions," said Sharkey.
"Moreover, one important lesson from the
visits we made around the world is that
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deserved global reputation for excellence,
safety, quality and innovation. Part of our
job, in my view, is to maintain and enhance
this position in the coming decades, and our
E.U. association has a very important role to
play in sustaining this reputation."
Valluis has been a deputy president
of the French Flour Milling Association
(Association Nationale de la Meunerie
Française) since 2009, and was previously
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different positions including the trading
division.
He started his career in economic research before leading the French Corn
Growers Association.
Valluis has chaired many national and
European grain trading and processing associations as well as GAFTA.
Sharkey, the outgoing president, was
previously president of the E.U. Primary
Food Processors and head of wheat procurement at Premier Foods for nine years.
Following his election, Valluis said,
"There are many challenges ahead of
us, such as the competitiveness of our
primary industry in a better functioning
food supply chain, the permanent access to sustainable high-quality and safe
wheat, rye and oat, or the implementation
of transparency rules to enable more E.U.
millers to hedge against the increasing
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I also wish our association to support the
E.U. milling industry's integration into
the new economy."
With some 45 million tonnes of soft
wheat and rye processed each year, more
than 3,800 companies employing 45,000
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the largest single food user of E.U. domestic wheat, rye and oats.

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