Now, Dick Anderson will provide counsel to the board as chairman of Emeritus. Starting as a crew boss on construction of the first grain elevator in Maumee, Ohio, he worked his way up through the company and was named president and CEO in 1986. He was instrumental in the company’s transition from a family-owned business to a publicly traded enterprise in 1996.
Dick Anderson chose fall 2008 not to stand for re-election to the board. At that time, the board approved Mike Anderson to succeed him as chairman.
“It has been an honor and a privilege to work alongside Dick for more than a decade,” said chairman, president and CEO Mike Anderson. “He has been a tremendous teacher to the generations of employees who have worked here for the past 62 years. His contributions to this company have helped shape it into what it is today, and for that we thank him.”
