Arnold Drung, general manager of Conestoga Packers of
Breslau, has been elected president of the Canadian Meat Council which has
about 400 members.
Drung has been with Conestoga Meat Packers, which is owned
by about 120 hog-farming members of Progressive Pork Producers Co-operative
(3Ps), since 2002.
He started on the kill floor of the Burns Meat Ltd. plant in
Kitchener when he was a summer student, worked for J.M. Schneider Inc. and
later its current owner, Maple Leaf Foods Inc.
In between he worked for McNeil Consumer Products.
He has two degrees, including a Master of Business Administration,
from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.
He will be speaking for an association whose members market
about $24 billion worth of meat per year, employ about 70,000 people and help
Canada’s balance of trade by exporting $4.5 billion worth of beef and pork.
