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'Cadbury Schweppes plc' 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.

Contents

Overview

Schweppes

Cadbury's

Merger

Domestic and international subsidiaries

Demerger

Products

2006 ''Salmonella'' scare

Recall

References

See also

External links

Overview

Schweppes

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.

Cadbury's

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 'Cadbury Brothers Limited'.
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, 'Cadbury Brothers Limited' undertook a financial merger with 'J.S. Fry & Sons Limited'.

Merger

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).

Domestic and international subsidiaries

★ 'United Kingdom:' Cadbury UK also owns Trebor Bassett, Fry's, Maynards, and Halls. As of August 2004, Cadbury Trebor Bassett has eight factories and 3,000 staff in the UK.

★ '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.

★ 'United States:' The Cadbury Schweppes company's presence in the United States 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.

Demerger

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.^[1] 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.

Products

Main articles: Cadbury Schweppes products

''Cadbury Schweppes'' produces beverages, chocolates and sweets/candies such as the popular "Dairy Milk".

2006 ''Salmonella'' scare

On 19 January 2006, Cadbury Schweppes detected a rare strain of the ''Salmonella'' bacteria, affecting seven of its products, said to have been caused by a leaking pipe. The leak occurred at its Marlbrook plant, in Herefordshire, which produces chocolate crumb mixture; the mixture is then transported to factories at Bournville and Somerdale to be turned into milk chocolate.Cadbury recall after health fears - BBC News, 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, Birmingham City Council announced that it would be prosecuting Cadbury Schweppes in relation to three alleged offences of breaching health and safety legislation. An investigation being carried out at that time by Herefordshire Council led to a further six charges being brought.c The company pleaded guilty to all nine chargesCadbury admits salmonella charges - BBC News, 15 June 2007.Cadbury admits salmonella charges - BBC News, 3 July 2007., and was fined £1 million at Birmingham Crown Court - the sentencing of both cases was brought together.Cadbury gets 1 mln pound salmonella fine - Yahoo! News, 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

Recall

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:

Name	Size
Dairy Milk Buttons Easter Chickcell	185
Creme Egg Minis	300g Box
Creme Egg Minis	58g Bag
Creme Egg Easter Egg	629g
Creme Egg Easter Egg	195g
Crunchie Easter Egg	585g
Mini Eggs Easter Egg	595g
Mini Eggs Easter Egg	190g
Dairy Milk Easter Egg	445g
Dairy Milk Easter Egg	795g
Dairy Milk Fruit and Nut Easter Egg	445g
Flake Easter Egg	185g
Easter Egg Delight Mixed Eggs	492g
Easter Egg Delight	890g
Crunchie Recipe Easter Egg	230g
Dairy Milk Bubbly Easter Egg	187g

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References

1. "Cadbury plans to split business" - BBC News, 14 March, 2007.
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6349199.stm
3. http://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)

See also

★ Cadbury Adams

★ Cadbury World

★ Stimorol

★ Big Chocolate

★ Small Chocolate

★ Bournville

External links

★ Cadbury Schweppes plc

★ Cadbury Trebor Bassett (UK)

★ Cadbury India

★ Cadbury South Africa

★ Cadbury Adams USA

★ Cadbury Australia

★ Cadbury Ireland

★ Cadbury Canada

★ Cadbury New Zealand

★ Cadbury Nigeria

★ Schweppes

★ Home of Cadbury.