Talk:Cadbury plc

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[edit] Jacob Schweppe

The name of the founder of the Schweppes company is Jacob Schweppe, not Jacob Schweppes. I changed this in the article. Carnuzo


Cadbury-Schweppes acquired Yoo-Hoo in 2002, I've added this to the list of beverages. -Fatal

[edit] Cleanup

Parts of this page definetly need some clean-up. There are many comments which are very innappropriate for an enclyclopedia. Such as "marketed under another name in Canada, but unable to determine which name (help?)" and "MAY also be..." (i.e. not a fact, just a possiblity). There are also other parts which contain bad grammar, which needs to be fixed.

Removed cleanup after several edits... replace tag if you disagree. Aaronmz 02:21, May 12, 2005 (UTC)


Someone needs to get rid of the "this is all incorrect" line at the end of the merger section. Also, considering the fact that it IS in fact incorrect, the whole section needs revamping.

[edit] Lists of products

I can see these getting very long-winded and difficult to navigate without some sort of categorisation. I think in the case of chocolate/candy, they should be divided into the different brands - namely Cadbury and Bassetts (AFAIK the Trebor brand is no longer used). Maybe sub-categories for different products made/sold in certain countries should also be made - I can think of at least 10 Cadbury products made and sold (usually) only in Ireland, for example (Moro, Dairy Milk Golden Crisp, Caramello, Tiffin, Top Deck, etc.). --Zilog Jones 21:22, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Title

Why is the title hyphenated? The company name does not seem to be. Rd232 22:34, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

fixed dml 00:33, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] An interesting note

Cadbury chocolate sold in Australia tastes very different to that sold in the UK and Ireland. Does the chocolate sold in the USA under the cadbury label resemble either or these? Why is it so different?

Additionally, there are bars sold in Australia and New Zealand that aren't sold anywhere else. Cherry Ripe for instance. There are others that go under the same name as bars sold in the UK and Ireland but are actually completely different bars. For instance, Moro in Australia is basically a mars bar (tho I don't think it's sold any more). A chomp sold in Australia is like a Drifter bar (except it's one long one) and you can't get drifters in Australia. We have something called a Chokito in Australia and it is virtually identical to a Moro in the UK.

I can't find a source on this but nobody who's visited both countries would disagree. 62.254.168.102 12:11, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

If you're still interested (after 3 months I'm not sure you are) I would think that it is probably due to the EU's strict regulations on what can be defined as chocolate (or more specifically Milk chocolate (I think its in a Directive but not sure what one)). With regards different branding... no explanation. I don't mean that as in "I don't know"; I mean that as in "Companies just do that", personally I don't get why (look at Lynx and Axe). And as for the mixing around of brand names, I just find that crazy! - RHeodt 23:01, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other products

Do they really make condoms ? That seems unrelated to the rest of their products.

-- Beardo 06:07, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Not to my knowledge. I have removed it temporarily until someone shows me a site (preferably a Cadbury Schweppes' site) stating this or can at least name the BRAND. - RHeodt 23:03, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Does Hershey's really manufacture all the Cadbury chocolates sold in the United States

Yes, Hershey's does. Oldpantsnewjersey 02:42, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio notice removed

  • I have removed the copyvio notice. The Cadbury Schweppes article was first developed on 2 June 2002, since creation, the article has been edited nearly three hundred times. The immediate past version of the article and the page quoted do not look anything like each other. If there are sections of material copied, then they need to be removed, or attributed with quotation. --A Y Arktos\talk 00:40, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
    • I have reverted the apparently offending edit--A Y Arktos\talk 00:47, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Purple packaging

The article says:

[In Canada] "the chocolate bar line was rebranded in late 2005 to the UK-standard purple wrapper theme."

What?? We've had purple-wrapper Cadbury bars in Canada for a long time, so this statement is either wrong, or not clear enough. WillNL 22:30, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup-section tag added to introduction

I've added the cleanup-section tag to the introductory paragraph because it is a hopelessly bad introduction which does not adequately introduce the company. Only the first sentence is really and introductory sentence, the rest of the introduction strangely focuses on what the company doesn't make rather than what it does along with quite trivial facts. The important details of the company on the other hand seem to be absent.

[edit] Bias Edit

I deleted the first paragraph under the headline "Overview" because it was ridiculous, wasn't an overview, totally unencyclopedic, biased, and read like an advertisement. It said the following:

A cadbury chocolate is created with great care. How do they put in the caramel you ask? First the top of the chocolate is created. the curved top is substituted as a bowl for the caramel. The caramel is then filled in to the chocolate as the chocolate is frozen. Therefore the caramel taken form of the chocolate withought melting. The bottom is them placed and compressed onto the caramilk chocolate giving us all that wonderous taste we love.

Seriously. Give me a break.

Kronos o 22:36, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] translating the code for expiration date

The Seltzer and Tonic Water bottles have codes that I cannot crack:

Seltzer 05 127 7 (consistent top line) second lines: 1017NY050779(or 3) 0907NY050709(or 3) 1024NY050779(or 3)

Tonic Water 05 124 7 (consistent top line) second lines: 1009NY050473 0936NY050473 0927NY050473 0826NY050473

Both of these bottles were purchased in the last 4 - 5 weeks.

"####NY", I presume, is the NY bottling plant ID.

"050479" and "051247" and "091247" and "050779", to me, do not seem to be shuffled into a recent date.

Though, "NY######" could be the NY bottling plant ID, and somehow the first four digits could be the expiration date.

Thank you in advance for any clues!

JWL, NYC, NY

[edit] German descent

... of German descent? He was German! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.176.215.243 (talk) 23:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)