Recent History
For the first time in its 135 year old history, Ganong selected a president and CEO from outside the family. Doug Ettinger, a senior executive in the food industry for the past 20 years, was approved by the Ganong board of directors as the top executive of Canada’s oldest candy company. David Ganong maintains an advisory role on the company’s board and remains the controlling shareholder.
Executive history:
- James H. Ganong, co-founder
- Gilbert W. Ganong, co-founder
- Arthur D. Ganong, president 1917–1957
- R. Whidden Ganong, president 1957–1977
- David A. Ganong, president 1977–2008
- Doug Ettinger, president 2008 to 2012
Read more about this topic: Ganong Bros.
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)