"Voting packs", including voting papers, a video interview of each candidate, a booklet containing candidate profiles and a booklet on the key skills and capabilities Fonterra directors should possess, will be sent to Fonterra's shareholders today.
Shareholders will also have the opportunity to meet and question the 11 candidates during a
roadshow to 11 centres nationwide from May 7 to 14.
The election runs from today until noon on May 23, with shareholders required to rank candidates in order of preference under the single transferable voting system.
Three sitting directors, Marise James, of Inglewood, Harry Bayliss, of Manaia, and Richard Booth, of Whangarei, are competing against nine other candidates.
The "new" candidates are: Colin Holmes, Murupara; Stuart Nattrass, Christchurch; John Wilson, Te Awamutu; Hilary Webber, Cambridge; Graeme Edwards, Leigh; Kingi Smiler, Wellington; Malcolm Bailey, Feilding; and Maurice Hardie, Papamoa.
Queenstown's Les Keeper, a former director of highly successful Waikato co-op Tatua who moved to Southland about four years ago, has pulled out of the race.
During his campaign he criticised sitting Fonterra directors for treating shareholder meetings as "sideshows".
- NZPA
