Cadbury plc

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Cadbury plc

Type	Public (LSE: CBRY, NYSE: CBY)
Founded	1989
Headquarters	London, England, UK
Key people	Sir John Sunderland, Chairman Todd Stitzer, CEO
Industry	Confectionery and Non-alcoholic beverages
Products	See products
Market Cap	£8.8bn (as of 11/5/2008)^[1]
Revenue	▲ £7,971 million (2007)
Operating income	▲ £1,050 million (2007)
Net income	▲ £407 million (2007)
Employees	59,000
Website	www.cadbury.com

Cadbury plc (LSE: CBRY, NYSE: CBY) is a confectionery and beverage company with its headquarters in London, England. The firm was formerly known as Cadbury Schweppes plc before demerging in May 2008, separating its global confectionery business from its North American beverage unit, which has been renamed Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc.^[2]

1 Corporate history
2 Domestic and international subsidiaries
3 Products
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Corporate history

[edit] Schweppes

Johann Jacob Schweppe (born 1740 in Witzenhausen, Hesse, Germany; died 1821 in Geneva) was a German watchmaker and silversmith. He developed a method to charge water with carbon dioxide gas. Schweppe patented this method in 1783, some time after Joseph Priestley discovered a method to carbonate water. Carbonated water was originally produced for medical use. In 1790, Schweppe founded a factory to produce soda water on London's Drury Lane.

[edit] Cadbury's

Independently, in 1824, John Cadbury began vending tea, coffee, and (later) chocolate at Bull Street in Birmingham in the UK and sometimes in India. The company was later known as Cadbury brothers

After John Cadbury's retirement, his sons, Richard and George, opened a major factory in the purpose-built suburb of Bournville, five miles south of the city.

After World War I, Cadbury Brothers Limited undertook a financial merger with J.S. Fry & Sons Limited.

[edit] Merger

The former Cadbury Schweppes logo

The two companies merged to form Cadbury Schweppes in 1989.

[edit] Demerger

In March 2007, it was revealed that Cadbury Schweppes was planning to split its business into two separate entities: one focusing on its main chocolate and confectionery market; the other on its US drinks business.^[3] It was speculated that the split could dramatically increase the company's value, from its current market value of about £12,600 million, to up to an estimated £16,000 million combined value.

The demerger took effect on 2 May 2008, with its North American drinks brands being demerged into Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc.^[2] Cadbury will continue to own its Australian beverage unit.^[4]

[edit] Domestic and international subsidiaries

[edit] United Kingdom

Cadbury UK also owns Trebor Bassett, Fry's, Maynards and Halls. The confectionery business in the UK is known as Cadbury Trebor Bassett and, as of August 2004, had eight factories and 3,000 staff in the UK. Biscuits bearing the Cadbury brand, such as Cadbury Fingers, are produced under licence by Burton's Foods. Cadbury's cakes and chocolate spread are manufactured under licence by Premier Foods but the cakes were originally part of Cadbury Foods Ltd with factories at Blackpole in Worcester and Moreton on The Wirral with distribution depots throughout the UK. In October 2007, Cadbury announced the closure of the Keynsham chocolate factory, formerly part of Fry's. Between 500 and 700 jobs would be affected by this change. Production will be transferred to other plants in England and Poland.

[edit] Canada

Cadbury Beverages Canada Inc., 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.

[edit] United States

Cadbury plc's presence in the United States consists of the confectionery unit Cadbury Adams. Cadbury merged with Peter Paul in 1978. Although the Cadbury group's 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.

Prior to the May 2008 demerger, the North American business also contained beverage unit Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages. In 1982, Cadbury Schweppes purchased the Duffy-Mott Company. In early 2006, all of Mott's beverage brands (Grandma's Molasses, Hawaiian Punch, Stride Gum, IBC Root Beer, Mr and Mrs T Bloody Mary mix, Orangina, and Yoo-hoo) were folded into Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages (now Dr Pepper Snapple Group), of which Mott's continues to operate as a separate unit.

[edit] Elsewhere

Cadbury also operates factories in India, Alexandria, Cairo and Ramadan City (Egypt), Barcelona (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), Dublin (Ireland), Dunedin (New Zealand), Port Elizabeth (South Africa), Mexico City (Mexico), Ringwood (Melbourne, Australia), Claremont (Hobart, Australia), Chudovo and Veliky Novgorod (Russia)

[edit] Schweppes

The manufacture of Schweppes products in the United States was spun off with Dr Pepper Snapple Group in May 2008. Cadbury did not manufacture Schweppes beverages for Brazil, Hong Kong, Mexico, Ireland, New Zealand, India and Romania. In the United Kingdom, Argentina, Bulgaria and Serbia they are produced by The Coca-Cola Company and, in Poland, by PepsiCo.

[edit] Accounting

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 associated with US and UK functions being transferred to India by end of 2006, with all units transferred by mid-2008. Depending on the success of this move, other accounting Human Resources functions may follow. This development is likely to lead to the loss of several hundred jobs worldwide, but also to several hundred jobs being created, at lower salaries commensurate with wages paid in developing countries.

[edit] Products

Main article: Cadbury products

Cadbury plc manufactures chocolates and sweets/candies such as the popular Dairy Milk, as well as a limited range of beverages in Australia.

[edit] References

^ YahooUK Finance - Cadbury Profile (accessed 11/may/2008)
^ ^a ^b Cadbury plc (2 May 2008). "CADBURY PLC STARTS TRADING AS STAND-ALONE CONFECTIONERY COMPANY". Press release. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
^ "Cadbury plans to split business" - BBC News, 14 March 2007.
^ "A curate's creme egg", The Scotsman, 11 April 2008. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.

Cadbury New Zealand Chocolate Crumb Plant Expected to Be Completed in 3 Months (FLEXNEWS, 31 July 2007)

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