Duncan Loney - Profile |
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Presenting a Baking Society Lifetime Achievement Award at the
gala Awards Dinner in Auckland in August 2003, president Peter Gray
said: “From time to time the Baking Society likes to recognise the significant work that certain people do for the good of the baking industry of New Zealand. “Tonight’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award would be the longest serving Allied Trader we have amongst us here. I’ve seen him at many conferences over the years – once dressed as a woman (yes indeed) – but always with an eye to encouraging the baking industry to grow and better itself. “After gaining a Batchelor of Science degree at Canterbury University, he joined the Wheat Research Institute, which is where some of us met him. After seven years there he decided to become involved in the business world. “He joined New Zealand Bakels in 1975 as a bread bakery advisor. 1980 saw him promoted to Sales Manager and in 1988 he moved into the General Manager’s role at New Zealand Bakels. “A family man and a community man, he is an active Rotarian and past chairman. He is a member of EMU, which is Bakels parent holding company in Europe, and a globetrotter between Bakels companies worldwide. “He is always a generous host when faced with a bunch of tired Kiwis on the Bakels stand at IBA Baking Show. Duncan, you do contribute a great deal to the baking industry of New Zealand and it is my pleasure to present you with this acknowledgement of that work.”
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