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1983
B.E. (Eric) Thompson has been
elected president of the National Association
of British and Irish Millers
for the coming year. Thompson
is a senior executive with Allied
Mills. The vice president is Richard
Loombe, a director of Rank Hovis
McDougall and chairman and managing
director of RHM's cereals division.
Donald
Novotny, director of the
Grain and Feed Division of the US
Department of Agriculture's Foreign
Agricultural Service, has become
chairman of the International
Wheat Council and of its executive
committee. Novotny succeeds Mostafa
El Khatib, counsellor at the
Egyptian embassy in Bonn, West
Germany.
1993
Seaboard Corp., a US-based company
that operates Life Flour Mill Ltd.
of Nigeria, has been informed that it
will soon receive a license from the
Nigerian government to resume importation
of wheat. The government
of Nigeria banned wheat imports in
1987. The flour mill was forced to
mill primarily locally grown commodities
in recent years.
Aat Braakenburg, president of the
Pell Group, Rotterdam, Netherlands,
has been elected president
of the Grain and Feed Trade Association
(GAFTA). Braakenburg entered
the grain trade in 1959 when
he joined Willebeek Le Mair & Co.
NV. He was responsible for establishing
Pell Nederland B.V. and Pell
Belgie NV and was co-founder of
the Shipmair Group. Elected deputy
president was Ken Hairs, who is
director of Continental UK. Hairs
served as vice president of GAFTA
last year.
2003
Ted Allen, president and chairman
of Agricore United, announced at
the annual meeting that he would
step down from the position after
a long and distinguished career in
the grain industry. He will remain
as a member of the board of directors.
He was elected president and
chairman of Agricore United upon
the merger of UGG and Agricore on
Nov. 1, 2001.
Associated British Foods PLC, the
international food, ingredients and
retail group, has appointed George
Weston to chief executive of George
Weston Foods, ABF's food operations
in Australia and New Zealand,
effective March 31. Weston currently
is chief executive of Allied
Bakeries, ABF's milling and baking
business in the UK, and is also
deputy chairman of ABF.
Methyl bromide manufacturers
must move ahead with a 20% cut in
methyl bromide production that was
to have taken effect on Jan. 1, for an
aggregate cut so far of 70% from the
1991 baseline. The total ban occurs
Jan. 1, 2005. The US milling industry's
effort to freeze the US phaseout
of methyl bromide failed, according
to the North American Millers' Association.
In the end, support from the
US Congress was not strong enough.
In the short term, a manufacturer told
NAMA the production cuts would
come from the methyl bromide produced
for fumigating the soil in fruit
and vegetable fields.
PT Bogasari, the flour milling arm
of Indonesia PT Indofood Sukses
Makmur, has set up a $6.9 million
flour blending facility in Singapore.
A Bogasari official in Jakarta
said the company planned to export
various wheat flours to Singapore
in containers and blend them at the
new facility to produce specialty
flours. The 4,510-square-meter
plant in Tuas, a port and industrial
area, can blend 12 tonnes of specialized
flour per hour. It is Bogasari's
first mill outside of Indonesia.
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In what would be the largest merger
in flour milling history, ConAgra
Foods Inc., Cargill and CHS Inc.
announced on March 5 that they
have reached an agreement to
combine their North American
flour milling businesses to form a
new company to be named Ardent
Mills. The combined company will
operate 44 flour mills, three bakery
mix facilities and a specialty bakery
in the United States, Canada
and Puerto Rico. Total daily wheat
and durum flour milling capacity
for the combined company will be
576,100 cwts.
James Ronald Allen, 75, Salina,
Kansas, US, former president/chief
executive officer of Research Products
Co., died Feb. 21 of natural
causes at Salina Regional Health
Center. Allen, who retired in 2002,
had been a member of the Kansas
Grain and Feed Association, the Association
of Operative Millers, the
Association of Cereal Chemists and
the North American Millers' Association.
Bunge
Ltd. announced on Feb. 7
that Alberto Weisser will retire as
chief executive officer, effective
June 1. The board of directors has
appointed Soren Schroder, currently
CEO of Bunge North America,
to succeed Weisser as CEO of the
company, and expects Schroder to
become director before June 1. The
board also appointed Weisser as executive
chairman, serving until Dec.
31.
The Pritzker Group announced
that it acquired Omaha, Nebraska,
US-based Intersystems, a leading
designer and manufacturer of specialized
material
handling equipment
serving the global agriculture
industry. The entire Intersystems
management team invested alongside
the Pritzker Group and will
continue to lead the company.
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