MEDIA RELEASE
Monday, 25 November 2013 For Immediate Release
RESULTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2013 FONTERRA ELECTIONS
Returning Officer Warwick Lampp, of electionz.com Ltd, has declared the final results of the 2013 Fonterra Board of Directors’, Directors’ Remuneration Committee and
Shareholders’ Council elections.
Shareholders voted to re-elect incumbent Directors Malcolm Bailey and Ian Farrelly. They will be joined by new Director
Michael Spaans.
Michael Spaans, aged 50, lives in Hamilton and farms at Te Aroha. Michael was a Shareholders’ Councillor from 2000 to
2008. Michael is currently a Director of DairyNZ and several other dairy sector companies.
Shareholders Scott Montgomery and Gerard Wolvers were elected unopposed as members of the Directors’ Remuneration
Committee.
In the Shareholders’ Council elections, the following Shareholders’ Councillors were elected:
Ward 8 – Hamilton Ross Wallis
Ward 21 – Coastal Taranaki Vaughn Brophy
Both are new Shareholders’ Councillors.
In the eleven other Shareholders’ Council wards where elections were due, nominees were elected unopposed. The
Councillors in those wards are:
Ward 3 - Northern Wairoa Penny Smart
Ward 6 - Hauraki Julie Pirie
Ward 9 - Morrinsville Malcolm Piggott
Ward 12 - Cambridge Kevin Monks
Ward 15 - South Waikato Ian Brown
Ward 18 - Otorohanga Duncan Coull
Ward 24 - Southern Taranaki David Werder
Ward 27 - Southern Manawatu Richard Syme
Ward 30 - Northern Central Canterbury Ange Ward
Ward 32 - Southern Canterbury John Gregan
Ward 33 - Otago Ad Bekkers and Ivan Lines
All successful candidates will take office at the close of the Annual Meeting on Wednesday, 27 November 2013.
Warwick Lampp
Returning Officer – 2013 Fonterra Elections
Free phone 0508 666 446
electionz.com Ltd
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