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Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company owned by Mondelez International (spun off from Kraft Foods) since 2010. It is the second-largest confectionery brand in the world, after Mars. [3] Cadbury is internationally headquartered in Greater London, and operates in more than 50 countries ...
The Cadbury Schweppes logo used until the demerger in 2008. Cadbury merged with drinks company Schweppes to form Cadbury Schweppes in 1969. [17] At the time, the Cadbury family held seven of the thirteen seats on the company board, plus chairmanship. The Cadbury family held approximately 50% of the ordinary shares, while the Frys held about 10%.
Kraft Foods Inc. (/ ˈ k r æ f t /) was a multinational confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate. [4] It marketed many brands in more than 170 countries. Twelve of its brands annually earned more than $1 billion worldwide: Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oreo, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Trident, and Tang. [5]
Bournville Rest House was built to celebrate the Silver Wedding Anniversary of George and Elizabeth Cadbury, and was paid for by the employees of Cadbury Brothers Ltd. The design is by William Alexander Harvey, who was architect of many of the buildings on the estate and is based on the 17th century Yarn Market in Dunster, Somerset.
An office of American Airlines is located at the Orient House (HAA3) within Waterside. [31] In 2007 Cadbury Schweppes announced it would be moving to Uxbridge from Mayfair to cut costs. [32] The company later split and Cadbury plc moved to its new head office in Cadbury House in the Uxbridge Business Park in June 2008. [33]
In November 1978, Peter Paul Cadbury closed its Frankfort, Indiana manufacturing plant, and operations moved to Naugatuck. [5] Hershey Company purchased Peter Paul along with their entire U.S. chocolate business from Cadbury Schweppes for $300 million in 1988. [2] [6] In April 2007, the Hershey Company announced it would close Peter Paul's ...
Cadbury Ireland exports over 200 of its products to 30 countries worldwide, making a contribution of €110 million of Irish trade. Cadbury Ireland uses local ingredients. The company operates two factories in Ireland in Coolock in Dublin (where the headquarters of Cadbury Ireland are located) and in Rathmore in Kerry.
In 2007, Cadbury launched a new advertising campaign entitled Gorilla, from a new in-house production company called "Glass And A Half Full Productions". [26] The advert was premièred during the season finale of Big Brother 2007, and consists of a gorilla at a drum kit, drumming along to the Phil Collins song "In the Air Tonight". [27]