Carter succeeds retiring chair Gary Paykel, effective immediately.

Former Foodstuffs managing director Tony Carter named as chairman in waiting.

New Zealand’s major food companies are run by evil goblins who sit in their offices counting piles of cash while selling us dodgy, over-priced food they’ve deliberately changed the flavour of to ruin our childhood memories.

Well, maybe not, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that if you had been following some of the recent media coverage of the companies that supply most of the food we put on our tables.

Over the past few months New Zealand’s intrepid media have uncovered some shocking scandals in the food industry:

Two of New Zealand’s three Foodstuffs co-operatives will have a change of leadership in the near future, with the heads of the Auckland and Wellington operations both moving on from their roles.

While Foodstuffs (Wellington) managing director Tony McNeil has already signalled that he will be leaving his position in March next year, Tony Carter announced this week that he would also be stepping down from the roles of managing director at both Foodstuffs Auckland and Foodstuffs (NZ) in two years.