April 30, 2010

Hubbard names new country manager, China

Hubbard has appointed Frank Ling as Country Manager for China.

Frank Ling has very longstanding experience in the primary poultry breeding industry. During the last 19 years, he has been working for several primary poultry breeding companies in the Chinese market, mainly with responsibilities for sales and marketing. In this period, he has been very successful in the introduction of several products (for e.g. poultry breeds and incubators) into the Chinese market.

Frank has studied Poultry Production Management at the University of Connecticut (USA), Business Administration at the Shandong Foreign Trade College (China) and received a Master's Degree in Pathological Immunology in 1985 at the University of Agriculture and Animal Science, Changchun in China.

"I am very happy with Frank joining us, as he has an in-depth knowledge of the Chinese poultry market. He is well respected by industry professionals and will be a very good asset to the Hubbard company in the urther development of our business in this very important and one of the largest broiler markets in the world", said David Fyfe, Hubbard Business Director for Asia.

Frank Ling has joined Hubbard on March 1, 2010 and reports directly to David Fyfe.