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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Confectionery |
| Founded | 4 March 1824 in Birmingham, England.[1][2] |
| Founder | John Cadbury |
| Headquarters | Uxbridge Business Park, Greater London, England |
Key people | Dirk Van de Put (chairman and CEO) |
| Brands | List of Cadbury brands |
| Parent | Mondelez International |
| Website | cadbury |
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 worldwide. It is known for its Dairy Milk chocolate, the Creme Egg and Roses selection box, and many other confectionery products. One of the best-known British brands, in 2013 The Daily Telegraph named Cadbury among Britain's most successful exports.[4]
Cadbury was founded in 1824 in Birmingham, England, by John Cadbury (1801–1889), a Quaker who sold tea, coffee and drinking chocolate. Cadbury developed the business with his brother Benjamin, followed by his sons Richard and George. George developed the Bournville estate, a model village designed to give the company's workers improved living conditions. Dairy Milk chocolate, introduced by George Jr in 1905, used a higher proportion of milk in the recipe than rival products. By 1914, it was the company's best-selling product. Successive members of the Cadbury family have made innovations with chocolate products. Cadbury, Rowntree's and Fry's were the big three British confectionery manufacturers throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries.[5]
Cadbury was granted its first royal warrant from Queen Victoria in 1854. It held a royal warrant from Elizabeth II from 1955 to 2022.[6] Cadbury merged with J. S. Fry & Sons in 1919, and Schweppes in 1969, known as Cadbury Schweppes until 2008, when the American beverage business was split as Dr Pepper Snapple Group; the rights ownership of the Schweppes brand had already differed between various countries since 2006. In 1992, Sir Adrian Cadbury, chairman of the company for 24 years, produced the Cadbury Report, a code of best practice which served as a basis for reform of corporate governance around the world.[7] Cadbury was a constant constituent of the FTSE 100 on the London Stock Exchange from the index's 1984 inception until the company was bought by Kraft Foods Inc. in 2010.[8][9]
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- ^ "Royal Warrant Holders: Cadbury". Royalwarrant.org. Archived from the original on 6 February 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ^ Gittelson, Steven (4 September 2015). "Adrian Cadbury, a leader in corporate governance, dies at 86". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
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- ^ "Cadbury PLC (UK): Offer by Kraft Foods Inc. (USA) declared Wholly Unconditional – Changes In FTSE Indices". FTSE Group. 2 February 2010. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2010.