is a
Confectionery and
Beverage company with its headquarters in
Berkeley Square ,
London ,
England ,
UK . However, it does not manufacture Schweppes beverages for
Brazil ,
Hong Kong ,
Ireland ,
New Zealand ,
Romania or the
United Kingdom , having sold its trademarks there to
The Coca-Cola Company ; nor is it manufactured in
Poland , having sold its trademarks there to
PepsiCo . Cadbury Schweppes is currently the only major international confectionery manufacturer to produce
Fairtrade or
Organic products, which it sells through its subsidiary company
Green & Black's .
Johann Jacob Schweppe (born 1740 in
Witzenhausen ,
Hesse , Germany; died 1821 in
Geneva ),
Watchmaker and
Silversmith of German descent, developed a method to charge
Water with
Carbon Dioxide gas. Schweppe patented this method in 1783, some time after
Joseph Priestley first discovered a method of impregnating water with carbon dioxide. Carbonated water was originally produced for medical usage. In 1788 he settled in
Switzerland . In 1790 he founded a factory to produce
Soda Water in London's
Drury Lane .
Independently, in
1824 ,
John Cadbury began vending tea, coffee, and (later) chocolate at Bull Street in
Birmingham in the
UK and sometime in
India and
Pakistan . The company was then known as .
After
John Cadbury 's retirement, his sons,
Richard and
George , opened a major factory in the purpose-built suburb of
Bournville , four miles south of the city.
After
World War I , undertook a financial merger with '''
J.S. Fry & Sons Limited '''.
The two companies merged to form Cadbury Schweppes in
1969 . Cadbury also operates factories in
Alexandria ,
Cairo and
Ramadan City (
Egypt ),
Barcelona (
Spain ),
Dublin (
Ireland ),
Dunedin (
New Zealand ),
Port Elizabeth (
South Africa ),
Ringwood (
Melbourne ,
Australia ) and
Claremont (
Hobart ,
Australia ).
- ''', based in Mississauga , Ontario is the company's Canadian subsidiary for beverage related products while Cadbury Adams is the company's Canadian confectionery subsidiary, based in Toronto . Most brands and products match those in the UK; the chocolate bar line was rebranded in late 2005 to the UK-standard Purple wrapper theme.
- ''' consists of the beverage unit Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages , and confectionery unit Cadbury Adams . Cadbury merged with Peter Paul in 1978, Although Cadbury Schweppes chocolate products have been sold in the U.S. since 1988 under the Cadbury trademark name, the chocolate itself has been manufactured by Hershey's and can be found in Hershey's chocolate stores.
In May 2006 Cadbury Schweppes announced that it would be outsourcing its transactional accounting and order capture functions to Shared Business Services (SBS) centres run by a company called
Genpact (a businesses services provider) in India, China and Romania. This was to affect all business units and be phased with US and UK functions being transferred to India by end of 2006 and all unit transferred by mid 2008. Depending on the success of this move other accounting functions and Human Resources shared centres may follow.
This move is likely to lead to several hundred job losses worldwide and several hundred jobs being created worldwide.
In March 2007, it was revealed that Cadbury Schweppes is planning to split its business into two separate businesses: one focusing on its main chocolate and confectionery market; the other on its US drinks business.
"Cadbury plans to split business" -
BBC News ,
14 March ,
2007 . It is speculated that the split could dramatically increase Cadbury's value, from its current market value of about £12,600 million, to up to an estimated £16,000 million combined value.
See Also: Cadbury Schweppes products
''Cadbury Schweppes'' produces beverages, chocolates and sweets/candies such as the popular "Dairy Milk".
On ,
23 June 2006 .
Cadbury Schweppes did not officially notify the
Food Standards Agency until Monday, 19 June, 2006, shortly after which it recalled more than a million chocolate bars.c
In December 2006, the company announced that the cost of dealing with the contamination would reach £30 million.
Cadbury faces salmonella action -
BBC News ,
23 April 2007 .
In April 2007, ,
16 July 2007 . Analysts have said the fine is not material to the group, with mitigating factors limiting the fine being that the company quickly admitted its guilt and said it had been mistaken that the infection did not pose a threat to health.c
During February 2007, Cadbury announced they would be recalling a range of products due to a labelling error. The products were produced in a factory handling nuts, but this was not reflected on the packaging, so as a precaution all items were recalled.
The following products were included in the recall:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6349199.stmhttp://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/information/product_recall/recall_list/
Cadbury New Zealand Chocolate Crumb Plant Expected to Be Completed in 3 Months (FLEXNEWS, 31 July 2007)
