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Six candidates are vying for Fonterra board elections this year.

NOMINATIONS FOR the 2014 Fonterra elections have closed and the candidates for the Fonterra board of directors' election will be announced on Tuesday, September 23.

NOMINATIONS HAVE opened for the 2014 Fonterra Elections.

NOMINATIONS WILL open next month for a new farmer-elected director for DairyNZ’s board following the resignation of Barbara Kuriger from Taranaki.

ANOTHER TWO Meat Industry Excellence group-backed director candidates have been elected to a meat company board making it three from three for the reform lobby.

MICHAEL SPAANS has been elected as the new director on the Fonterra Board of Directors.

MEAT INDUSTRY REFORM group, Meat Industry Excellence (MIE), says the industry's cooperatives need to move to best practice for farmer director elections, with the process run quite independently of the cooperative boards and management.

Fonterra's outgoing chairman Henry van der Heyden has used his final speech as chairman to thank farmer shareholders for their support.

Fonterra chairman-elect John Wilson (pictured right) has been re-appointed for another three year term as a director of the co-op.

Fonterra chairman-elect John Wilson (pictured right) has been re-appointed for another three year term as a director of the co-op.