Zespri chair John Loughlin to stand down early next year

Zespri Chairman John Loughlin will stand down as chairman and a director early next year.

Loughlin joined the Zespri Board as one of three independent directors in 2002 (the other five directors are grower-directors) assuming the chairmanship in August 2008. |The  Zespri Board will now undertake a search for an independent director with the necessary commercial and financial skills and experience needed to fill the independent director vacancy.