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The Federation's Background
André Namur, the former Secretary General of the European Feed Industry
Federation along with Danny Blankenship the European Director of the American
Soybean Association in Brussels and Roger Gilbert, who was then the European
Editor of Feed International, developed the concept of an international organisation
representing the feed industry globally over a five-year period ending in the
setting up of Articles of Association in Luxembourg in 1987.
André Namur,
who passed away in February, 2004, was its first secretary. He was best known
for his ability to manage the political scene surround the feed industry and
helped bring feed-related issues to the forefront of the European political
agenda.
Everyone André came into contact with through his work felt his
enthusiasm and support for the feed industry. He worked with the media, and
in particular writing for
Feed International, to show that feed-related issues crossed national borders.
André retired from FEFAC in 1995 shortly after an unfortunate accident
which left him in a coma for several weeks. But for this accident - from which
he fully recovered - André may have made a greater contribution to the
European and international feed scenes. Roger Gilbert took up the position of
Secretary General in 1999.
It was André Namur's foresight, and hard work,
that led to the concept and the formation of an international feed federation
among core feed industry leaders. He wanted to see the benefits that he had help
accrue for the European feed industry and its associations pass to other associations
in other countries.
“If there is one person who is the figurehead of an international
feed industry it is André Namur. He is our founding father!,” says Mr
Gilbert.
IFIF's first President from 1987-1996 was Brian Rutherford,, past-President of
the Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA), past-President of United Kingdom
Agricultural Supply Trade Association (UKASTA) and the ...
IFIF's second President from 1996-2002 was Henk van de Bunt of Victam International.
IFIF's current president, appointed in 2002, is Fred Stephens.
