Darwin Sobkow became chief executive officer of Richardson International this month, taking over from Curt Vossen who headed the company for 30 years.
Under his leadership the company expanded its facilities at the port at Hamilton and built an inland grain terminal near Breslau.
Sobkow served as chief operations officer since 2020 for the Winnipeg-based, privately-held firm, an arm of family-owned James Richardson & Sons.
The company’s ag industry holdings include a network of 55 Prairie grain elevators; port terminals in B.C., Ontario and Quebec; canola crush plants at Lethbridge and Yorkton; oat milling facilities in the three Prairie provinces and one each in the United States and the United Kingdom; several further-processing plants, and 93 Prairie retail outlets supplying seed and crop inputs.
“Under his leadership and bold vision, Richardson International evolved into a world-class organization with expertise across its vertically integrated agribusiness and food processing operations,” the company said in its Jan. 6 announcement.
