ADM to shift Asian head office to Singapore, as it makes key personnel changes
The agri-giant slso said it is hiring a new president of ADM China.
The position will report to Ismael Roig, president, ADM Asia-Pacific, and will be based in Shanghai. The new head of ADM China, it said, will focus on growing the company's sweetener portfolio and feed business in China.
ADM announced last autumn that it is constructing a feed premix facility in Nanjing. The facility is scheduled to begin operations in mid-2015 and will complement the company's existing feed premix plants in Dalian and Tianjin.
And the company has named Collin Benson as the new president of ADM Australia and New Zealand. He replaces Bill Fitzgibbon, who is retiring.
ADM said Benson brings 19 years of experience in grain merchandising and in food and feed ingredient sales. For the last six years, he served as president of ADM Japan.
As well as continuing to oversee the business in Japan and Korea, he will lead the integration of the Adelaide-based Toepfer business — among Australia’s top five agricultural commodity exporters — with ADM’s Sydney-based food and feed ingredients operations.
