Charlie Johnstone joins The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair as its new Chief Executive Officer. (CNW Group/Royal Agricultural Winter Fair)Charlie Johnstone joins The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair as its new Chief Executive Officer. (CNW Group/Royal Agricultural Winter Fair)
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New CEO For Royal Winter Fair

The Royal has a new CEO.

Charlie Johnstone takes over as the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair's Chief Executive Officer for this year's event. He's got a track record of executive leadership organizing national and international spectator events. The Toronto native was most recently president of the Honda Indy Toronto since 2005.

Johnstone calls the Royal a storied Canadian brand with a long and successful tradition of delivering world-class competition, entertainment and agricultural education.

This year's Royal runs from November 6 to the 15 at Exhibition Place in Toronto.

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