Parmalat Investors Name Board Candidates

ROME -(Dow Jones)- Parmalat SpA (PLT.MI)investors named nine new candidates for the Italian food company's board of directors and said European Investment Bank board member Rainer Masera will probably be proposed for the position of chairman. In a statement Friday, the investors also said Massimo Rossi, a former Chief Executive of Swedish Match AB, is expected to be proposed as vice chairman and interim chief executive.