Green & Black’s boss Dominic Lowe this week talked about his “confidence” in Kraft Foods’ takeover as the Cadbury-owned firm announced plans to move its entire range to Fairtrade by the end of 2011. Elsewhere, analysts speculated on Morrisons’ future strategy following the surprise appointment of Loblaw COO Dalton Philips as its new chief executive. Across the Atlantic, Wal-Mart announced plans to leverage its “size and global scale” in a shake-up to its leadership structure and the creation of a new unit for the firm’s online business. Here is a list of who said what this week.

“In order to fully evolve into a multi-channel retailer here in the US, we need to make our organisation, particularly in merchandising and marketing, channel agnostic” – Wal-Mart vice chairman, Eduardo Castro-Wright explains the retailer’s plans for Global.com.

“There are potentially some big strategic questions to be answered. Are they going to look at expanding into non-food, the Internet, or even develop a loyalty card?” – Keith Bowman, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers on the future for Morrisons under a new chief executive.

“When Cadbury bought Green & Black’s in 2005, people were saying it would be catastrophic. Cadbury have been fantastic. They’ve kept our independence, they’ve never touched the quality of the product, they’ve encouraged us to do Fairtrade. I have every confidence [in Kraft]” – Dominic Lowe, managing director of Green & Black’s, has faith in Kraft’s imminent stewardship of Cadbury.

“We have no concerns about the taste impact of these changes as we have taste-tested the new recipe extensively with consumers and they don’t know the difference” – a Kellogg spokesperson on the cereal giant’s European plans to slash salt.

“A rethink of [Tate’s] corporate strategy is overdue. One option that [CEO Javed] Ahmed may ponder is to exit sugar and use the cash proceeds to beef up the group’s food ingredients and bio-strategy, which we see as both under-exploited and undervalued in technology terms” – Icap analysts urge Tate & Lyle’s management to take a fresh look at the UK group’s operations.

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“The findings of this assessment reveal serious inadequacies in a number of ecolabels and cast doubt on their overall contribution to effective fisheries management and sustainability” – Miguel Jorge, director of the WWF’s International Marine Programme, hits out at the schemes used to judge whether seafood procurement is sustainable.

“Murray Goulburn’s proposal was inadequate – both in terms of price and conditions – and sought to opportunistically acquire WCB” – Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory slams Murray Goulburn’s offer for the Australian dairy firm – one of two for the business.

“The reason for Hans-Gerd Birlenberg’s departure is differences of opinion concerning the future strategic focus and management of the company” – sugar refiner Nordzucker on the resignation of its CEO.

“Whilst we have continued to insulate our consumers from this cost inflation, profits and profitability have been adversely impacted. But if the current situation continues, judicious price increases may be inevitable” – Britannia Industries MD Vinita Bali warns of price hikes amid mounting food inflation in India.

“It’s very difficult to say what kind of a recovery will come into place this year but we can say, looking at the two sectors that represent the largest component of our exports, dairy and meat, both of those are very well-positioned for growth in the coming year” – Aidan Cotter, chief executive of Ireland’s food export agency Bord Bia, believes 2010 will be a better year for the country’s food makers.