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Your canine crusader sees that former Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden has not retired back to the farm since giving up the top job at the dairy co-op a few years back.
He recently picked up the chairmanship of Rabobank NZ, replacing former Kiwifuit NZ and Air NZ chair John Palmer, another ex-producer board director who retired from the board. Of course, Rabobank NZ is a subsidiary of the Holland-based Rabobank Group, the world’s leading specialist food and agribusiness bank. As a mate of the Hound’s opined, Sir Henry is not only ideally experienced to chair NZ’s largest rural lender, but with his family heritage he is also well-suited to heading up the NZ branch of a Dutch conglomerate.
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