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  John Cadbury
Cadbury's also wanted to prevent its headquarters, which was called a "factory in a garden", from being hemmed in by monotonous city suburbs.
Cadbury would themselves have long ago ascertained the condition and circumstances of those labourers on the West Coast of Africa and the islands adjacent who provide them with raw material.
William Cadbury is in Portuguese West Africa negotiating with the planters and the Government in order to put an end to slavery and to induce the planters to grown their cocoa under conditions of free labor...The leading British cocoa firms, as we have shown, are awake, or are awakening, to their responsibilities.
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 Cadbury Schweppes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cadbury Schweppes plc is a confectionery and beverage company with its headquarters in London.
Independently, in 1824, John Cadbury began vending tea, coffee, and (later) chocolate in Birmingham in England and sometime in Pakistan.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cadbury-Schweppes   (657 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Peter Cadbury
Peter Cadbury, the founder of Westward Television who died yesterday aged 88, was a maverick entrepreneur and social figure whose career was punctuated by heated rows with boardroom colleagues, wives, neighbours, motorists, the Conservative Party and the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary.
Cadbury was a scion of the Quaker chocolate-making dynasty, but never worked for the family firm and was distinctly un-Quakerish in every aspect of his personal and business life.
Thereafter, Cadbury armed himself with a crossbow, which, after the jailing of Tony Martin for shooting two burglars at his farmhouse in Norfolk 2000, he robustly declared he was ready to use against a burglar who broke in late at night.
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 George Cadbury
Cadbury strongly believed that if you look after your employees they will look after your business, so he built his workers houses, he grouped them around cul-de-sac's and gardens to create a community, later he built a hospital, reading rooms and wash houses.
George Cadbury was a highly respected successful businessman that had a lot of influence in the local area, he was a strong supporter of William Gladstone and represented the Liberal Party on both Birmingham Town Council and Worcester County Council.
Cadbury's home was Northfield Manor and he had a new building constructed in the grounds to hold 700 people, every year in the summer months in this building he provided entertainment and food for deprived children from all areas of Birmingham.
www.birminghamuk.com /georgecadbury.htm   (609 words)

  
 Cadbury Schweppes plc | about us | our heritage | Cadbury
The one-man business opened in 1824 by a young Quaker, John Cadbury, in Bull Street Birmingham, was to be the foundation of Cadbury Limited, one of the world's largest producers of chocolate.
John Cadbury's lifelong involvement with the Temperance Society had an influence on the direction of his business enterprise.
John Cadbury devotes the rest of his life to civic and social work in Birmingham until his death in 1889.
www.cadburyschweppes.com /EN/AboutUs/Heritage/cadbury.htm   (1014 words)

  
 George Cadbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
John Cadbury, a tea and coffee dealer, was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham in 1839.
Cadbury was a strong supporter of William Gladstone and represented the Liberal Party on both Birmingham Town Council and Worcestershire County Council.
Cadbury opposed Britain's involvement in the First World War and disillusioned with the way the Liberal Government behaved in 1914 switched his financial support to the ant-war Independent Labour Party.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REcadbury.htm   (983 words)

  
 LHDA > General Information > Local History Heroes > John Cadbury
Born in 1802, John Cadbury managed to build up a tiny business into the multi-billion pound company today that is Cadbury’s.
The Cadbury family saw the potential that the small village of Bournbrook had, and rapidly developed it into the major suburb of Bournville that we know today.
John Cadbury was born in 1802 in Birmingham to a wealthy Quaker family.
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 The Cadburys - Quaker Social Reformers - QuakerInfo.com
John Cadbury, the founder of the Cadbury chocolate business, was active all his life in the temperance society.
John Cadbury led a campaign to ban the use of climbing boys to sweep chimneys.
Cadbury Brothers was the first firm to introduce the Saturday half-day holiday, and also pioneered in closing the factory on bank holidays.
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 George Cadbury
Cadbury built 24 houses on the site for the main workers but later another 300 were added to form the attractive Bournville Village.
Cadbury was actively involved in politics and supported William Gladstone and became a Councillor for the Liberal Party on Birmingham Town Council and Worcestershire County Council.
Cadbury paid over £60,000 into a pension fund for his employees.He still taught at Sunday School and organised events for local children in his specially constructed theatre in the grounds of his home Northfield Manor.
www.britainunlimited.com /Biogs/Cadbury.htm   (434 words)

  
 The history of Cadbury Schweppes in Bournville, Birmingham, West Midlands,UK
'Cadbury Brothers of Birmingham' was now operational and the chocolate industry was given a much needed boost in the 1850's when the government reduced the high import taxes on cocoa.
Cadbury's moved on to become a limited company and after the death of Richard Cadbury the sons of the two brothers joined the firm headed by George Cadbury.
Cadbury Schweppes Plc is a leader in confectionery and soft drinks both in the UK and abroad.
www.birminghamuk.com /cadburyhistory.htm   (781 words)

  
 IOL: Carol and the Chocolate Factory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
At almost beginning of the 19th century, in the early 1920s to be exact, John Cadbury was a very worried man. A devout Quaker and an enterprising sort of a bloke, he was concerned about the world around him.
To John Cadbury, this was not appropriate nor acceptable.
Yes, that of John Cadbury, not Willie Wonka - and pleasurably, the scent of chocolate was strong in the air.
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 Cadbury
Cadbury has been the 'first name in chocolate' since John Cadbury opened his first shop in the centre of Birmingham in 1824.
The Cadbury story is a fascinating study of industrial and social developments covering well over a century and a half.
Now the leader in the UK confectionery market*, Cadbury Limited is the confectionery division of Cadbury Schweppes plc, a major force in the confectionery and soft drinks international market.
www.objectivity.co.uk /Customers/Cadbury.htm   (232 words)

  
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Cadbury's was a leading 'old economy' beneficiary today of the market's change of sentiment towards previously high-flying tech stocks.
Cadburys has never had worries over a sales decline at this time of year with people giving up chocolate for lent.
Unfortunately for Cadbury's, however, it is nowhere near leading the way in the City and its shares have seen their value melt from a peak of 523p to 346p throughout 1999.
www.hemscott.com /hstoday/focus/cadburys_1503.htm   (453 words)

  
 Superbrands
John Cadbury’s sons George and Richard took control of the business in 1861 and, in 1866, introduced a new method for pressing the cocoa butter from cocoa beans to form cocoa essence, which was advertised as ‘Absolutely pure - therefore best’.
The Cadbury purple and gold house colours were introduced at the beginning of the century and are now firmly established as Cadbury’s corporate colours.
Cadbury has established itself as a company of fairness and integrity, which always attempts to operate as a socially responsible business.
www.superbrands-brands.com /volII/brand_cadbury.htm   (1611 words)

  
 This is The North East | CommuniGate | Welcome to my Website
It is tasty and you can buy it anywere it is handy for when your hungy and it is thavel wise you musnt keep it in the sun else it will melt and then it will tast houble and you can us it on rice crispis and corn flakes.
John Cadbury, a young Quaker, opens his grocery store at 93 Bull Street, Birmingham, England.
John Cadbury has a considerable flair for advertisement and promotion.
www.communigate.co.uk /ne/chocolate/index.phtml   (153 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Chocolate  George Cadbury, the son of John Cadbury, a tea and coffee dealer, was born in Birmingham in 1839.
John Cadbury's health was poor so George's education came to an end and he joined family business.
Cadbury “invented” milk chocolate The Cadbury Brothers made their first milk chocolate in 1897.
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 Company History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In 1831, in an old malthouse, John Cadbury became a manufacturer of drinking chocolate and cocoa.
During the mid 1850s, the Cadbury’s business began to decline and in 1860, the partnership between John and Benjamin Cadbury was dissolved.
This merger led Cadbury Schweppes to become a major force in the confectionery and soft drink markets in the UK as well as becoming a major force internationally.
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 ipedia.com: Cadbury-Schweppes Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In 1824, John Cadbury began vending tea, coffee and (later) chocolate in Birmingham, England.
After his retirement, his sons Richard and George Cadbury created a major factory and purpose-built suburb called Bournville four miles south of the city.
Cadbury is also the name of a part of the suburb of Claremont, in the city of Glenorchy, part of greater Hobart, in Tasmania, Australia.
www.ipedia.com /cadbury_schweppes.html   (235 words)

  
 Cadbury Schweppes plc | our brands | about our brands | confectionery | Cadbury
Cadbury is a world-renowned name with more than 150 years of chocolate heritage.
The Cadbury name can be seen in all chocolate related categories including confectionery, ice cream, cakes, biscuits, chilled desserts and chocolate based drinks.
In the early 1900s George Cadbury was determined to meet this challenge and, together with the experts from the Bournville factory, started to research new recipes and production methods.
www.cadburyschweppes.com /EN/Brands/About/Confectionery/cadbury_masterbrand.htm   (889 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Business - Profits sweetener for Cadbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Cadbury, which now makes more money from the sale of carbonated soft drinks such as 7-Up than from confectionery, reported underlying pre-tax profit of £886 million for the year to December, an increase of 12 per cent on 2001.
Chief executive John Sunderland said he was confident of double-digit growth in EPS, one of the targets the company has set under the "management for value" programme introduced in 1997.
Cadbury acquired eight businesses in 2001, including Orangina, in October, for £440 million, and proposed a final dividend of 7.65p, bringing the total dividend to 11p, an increase of 5 per cent.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /business.cfm?id=173112002   (624 words)

  
 Cadbury.co.uk - History Of Cadbury
The Cadbury story is a fascinating study of industrial and social development, covering well over a century and a half.
By 1831 the business had changed from a grocery shop and John Cadbury had become a manufacturer of drinking chocolate and cocoa, the start of the Cadbury manufacturing business as it is known today.
Quality has been the focus of the Cadbury business from the very beginning, as generations have worked to produce chocolate with the taste, smoothness and snap characteristic of Cadbury chocolate.
www.cadbury.co.uk /EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/history_cadbury   (256 words)

  
 Cadburys - Brand Development by Identifying Brand Values, 5th Edition
Cadbury use marketing strategies such as the 'Choose Cadbury' strategy to encourage a link between chocolate and these events ensuring there is a Cadbury chocolate product suitable and available for every occasion.
Cadbury provides one of the most successful examples of how an advertising message can be modified from one campaign to the next to attribute new values to a brand giving consumers more reasons to buy Cadburys.
The Cadbury brand has proven itself to be a leader in a highly volatile and competitive market because it has successfully established, nurtured and developed its umbrella brand and growing portfolio of products.
www.business2000.ie /cases/cases/case17.htm   (2149 words)

  
 The British Workman - Cocoa & Temperence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
John Cadbury was elected a member of the board of commissioners, and acted as chairman of the markets and fairs committee, took a leading part in trying to remedy the smoke nuisance, the employment of boy chimney-sweeps, interested himself also in hospitals and infirmaries.
All the members of the Cadbury family were long lived, for Richard Tapper Cadbury, father of the above, a member of the Society of Friends, died at Edgbaston, in 1860, aged ninety-two.
James Cadbury, of Banbury, who died in his eighty-fifth year, in 1888, was also a pronounced temperance advocate, as was also Benjamin Head Cadbury, who died in 1880, aged eighty-two.
www.users.bigpond.com /leslieslegends/Workman/cocoatemper.htm   (443 words)

  
 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
John’s sons, Richard and George, who took over the business in 1861, continued their father’s work in support of voluntary and public work that promoted a more just society.
George Cadbury was a modest yet extremely generous philanthropist who notably established the UK’s first self-supporting garden city, ‘Bourneville Village’ in 1878, designed to provide affordable quality homes in a healthy environment for industrial workers.
The Barrow Cadbury Trust is a charitable foundation that seeks to encourage an equal, peaceful and democratic society.
www.carnegieinstitution.org /carnegiemedal2005/biographies_southall.html   (530 words)

  
 Warwick Boar - Business
Cadbury bought Adams for $4.2 billion (£2.52 billion) in March this year, in an acquisition that created the world’s largest confectionery group company and the world’s third largest soft drinks company.
Cadbury Schweppes’ history dates back to 1783 when Jacob Schweppe perfected his process for manufacturing carbonated mineral water in Geneva, Switzerland.
Since the mid-1980s Cadbury Schweppes has expanded throughout the world by a programme of acquisitions and disposals to allow them to concentrate on core brands in the confectionery and soft drinks markets.
www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk /boar?article=2616   (594 words)

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