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FEATURE: steady hand at the wheel

Jim Meyer, president and CEO of Italgrani USA.

for the position, and he was offered the
job. He began his career with Italgrani
in August 1988 as CFO.
“I had no specific milling industry ex-

pertise,” Meyer said. “I am a city guy.
I didn’t grow up on a farm like many
in milling who have the advantage of
having that in their background. So every day has been a learning experience.
I remember the first day on the job. I
walked through the mill. The mill manager showed me things, and I just shook
my head. I didn’t know what that was or
what that meant, but I knew I could pick
up things quickly. I’ve always felt my
job entailed learning. It’s never a case
that you’re finished and you know everything you need to know.”
A year later, in August 1989, the CEO
of Italgrani’s U.S. organization retired, but
before doing so, he suggested Meyer be
named his successor, and Meyer became
the president of Italgrani’s U.S. operation.
“So I have been extremely blessed
and fortunate in my career,” Meyer said.
“When I was in my early 30s, I came to
run an organization of this stature.”

When Meyer joined Italgrani, the
company, whose activities in the United
States began in 1980 with the establishment of a representative office in
Minneapolis, consisted primarily of its
operations centered in St. Louis.
“We had a 4-million-bushel grain elevator on the banks of the Mississippi
River,” he said. “And by 1987, we had
constructed a mill, a durum semolina
mill, next to the grain elevator. It was
relatively small — 600 tonnes of raw
wheat a day.” The mill at the time served
a single customer, R&F Pasta, which
was owned by Borden Foods.
Italgrani also operated a mill in
Ayer, Massachusetts, U.S., that it built
in 1984 as part of a joint venture with
the Pellegrino family, which at the time
owned Prince Macaroni of Lowell,
Massachusetts. The pasta plant served
by that mill closed in 1995, and the mill
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From the editor-in-chief - A new measure of business success
Calendar of Events
News Review - Cargill to sell Swiss flour business
ADM: Geographic diversification critical to operations
Richardson completes acquisition of Viterra assets
Drought drops ADM’s first-quarter earnings
GrainCorp profit down 34%
ADM opens soybean processing facility in Paraguay
Income falls for Seaboard trading, milling unit
U.S. court sides with Monsanto in soybean case
Viterra to invest C$20 million to upgrade grain terminals
Gruma writes off Venezuela business
Olam earnings up 17% in first nine months
Bunge putting money behind ports
Wilmar earnings up 23% on oilseeds, grains
Vassart named Cargill Canada’s new president
CBH appoints new general manager, operations
Drought hurts The Andersons first-quarter earnings
Grain Market Review - Rice
Country Focus - Focus on France
Feature - Rising up from the ashes
Feature - The inside story of a groundbreaking trade agreement
Feature - 2013 IAOM Conference & Expo
The scoop on wheat innovation
Feature - Steady hand at the wheel
Feature - Sorghum milling study
Sorghum flour increasingly popular as gluten-free solution
European supplier profiles
Feature - Joseph Rank honored with exhibition
Supplier News
Product Showcase
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