Source: Olivia Law-delRosso, 785-532-0865, olivia@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Kayela Richard, 785-532-2535, media@k-state.edu

Friday, April 22, 2011

ETHICAL LEADERSHIP FOR TODAY'S GLOBAL BUSINESSES TOPIC OF LECTURE BY CARGILL'S CHUCK WARTA

MANHATTAN -- Ethics in global business will be the topic of a lecture by Chuck Warta, vice president of Cargill Animal Nutrition, for Kansas State University's College of Business Administration Business Ethics Lecture Series and Globalization Initiative.

Warta will present "Building Leadership and Company Culture in a Global Organization" at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, in Room 114 at the Leadership Studies Building. The presentation is free and the public is invited.

Warta, a K-State agricultural economics alumnus, has 20 years of extensive international management and marketing experience with Cargill Animal Nutrition. He has served on foreign assignments in both Korea and China, and has been responsible for operations in the U.S., China, Thailand and Malaysia since 2006.

Cargill Animal Nutrition is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. It provides animal nutrition products and services to a wide variety of lifestyle and commercial producers across America, Europe and Asia.

The event is sponsored by the Globalization and ConocoPhillips Excellence in Business Ethics initiatives.