Talking heads bows out
the back page
IAMA - world event
Winning teams
After more than three years on our back cover, the Talking Heads series is being replaced by a new regular feature called,
yes, you guessed it: The back page. When the organization was still very small and national offices tended to focus more
on local business, the Talking Heads series was a useful way of getting to know senior management located around the
world. Now we are a much more networked, our needs have changed. From this issue - and anticipating changes we will
be introducing over the next few issues in response to the Readers'survey on What's NewS - we will be using this page to
spotlight major events and offsites to keep you up to speed on what's happening on the Rabobank International scene.
Every year, F&A's global professional body, the International Food and Agribusiness
Management Association (IAMA), brings together the industry's top at the co-called
World Congress. F&A academies, professionals and senior managers met this year in
Italy's Florence to explore the links between trade, technology and competitiveness. But
the congress, with RI as one of the top sponspors and a cluster of international
Rabobankers (Frans van Bijsterveld, Larissa Taylor and Bruce Tozer) participating as
moderators and panelists, is more than a platform for exchanging views at top level. A
comprehensive training program is also part of the association's offcring. For more
information on LAMAcheck out page 11.
The Rabobank building in Utrecht was
the venue for the Dutch Hockey
Federation's annual gathering. As main
sponsors of the sport in the Netherlands,
RI was happy to host an event which
marked one of the most successful in the
Federation's history. As you may
remember, the World Championships
were organized successfully in the
Netherlands last year. Building on that - especially financial - success, the federation
is now focusing on a strategie growth scenario of 30 percent over the next 10 years
for Dutch hockey clubs. Says Henk Gentis, who himself is a keen hockey fan, 'this
kind of event meshes perfectly with our approach to sponsoring. We're not only here
to supply money. We're also supporting sustainable
strategie development of the game both here in
Holland and around the world.'
