Tuesday, 06 December 2016 16:37

Smit voted in as Fonterra director

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Donna Smit.

Bay of Plenty dairy farmer Donna Smit has been elected to Fonterra’s board.

Smit and sitting director Michael Spaans were voted in by shareholders; Canterbury farmer Stuart Nattrass was unsuccessful.

Smit lives and farms at Edgecumbe; building and owning even dairy farms in Eastern Bay of Plenty and Oamaru.

She is a director of Ballance Agri Nutrients and Primary ITO, and a Trustee of Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre and Eastern Bay Energy Trust. A charted accountant by profession, she was company administrator at Kiwifruit Cooperative

EastPack for 24 years.

Smit will join the board at Fonterra’s annual meeting in Darfield on Thursday.

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