Confectionery Companies of the United Kingdom

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Bassett's, Bendicks, Cadbury, Divine Chocolate, Elizabeth Shaw (confectionery company), Fox's Confectionery, Green & Black's, Hope and Greenwood, J. S. Fry & Sons, Mackintosh's, Maynards, Michton, Millar McCowan, Needler's, Peppersmith, Quiggin's, Revive Energy Mints, Rowntree's, Skinny Candy, Swizzels Matlow, Tangerine Confectionery, Terry's, Thorntons, Walkers' Nonsuch. Excerpt: Cadbury is a British confectionery company owned by Mondel z International Inc. and is the industry's second-largest globally after Mars, Incorporated. With its headquarters in Uxbridge, London, England, the company operates in more than 50 countries worldwide. The company was known as Cadbury Schweppes plc from 1969-2008 until its demerger, in which its global confectionery business was separated from its US beverage unit (now called "Dr Pepper Snapple Group"). It was also a constant constituent of the FTSE 100 from the index's 1984 inception until its 2010 Kraft Foods takeover. In 1824, John Cadbury began selling tea, coffee, and drinking chocolate, which he produced himself, at Bull Street in Birmingham, England. He later moved into the production of a variety of cocoa and drinking chocolates, made in a factory in Bridge Street and sold mainly to the wealthy because of the high cost of production. John Cadbury became a partner with his brother Benjamin and the company they formed was called 'Cadbury Brothers of Birmingham'. The brothers opened an office in London and in 1854 they received the Royal Warrant as manufacturers of chocolate and cocoa to Queen Victoria. In the 1850s the industry received a much needed boost, with the reduction in the high import taxes on cocoa, allowing chocolate to be more affordable to everybody. Due to the popularity of a new expanded product line, including the "Cadbury's Cocoa Essence," the company...