Cadbury Dairy Milk

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Our History

The Cadbury family founded their chocolate company in 1824 in Birmingham and later became among the first to sell milk chocolate that everyone could enjoy.

THE 1800s

It was in 1824 that Quaker businessman John Cadbury opened his first shop, a grocer’s in Birmingham’s Bull Street. It was to be the beginnings of a family business that would make milk chocolate the popular treat it remains in the UK and around the world and act as a pioneer of good business practices. By the 1880s the Cadbury family had their own ‘factory in the garden’ in Bournville, to make chocolate while providing a safe and healthy environment for their employees to live and work.

THE 1900s

The 1900s were a period of innovation and growth for Cadbury. Dozens of new products were launched which have become some of the nation’s best loved chocolate brands, enjoyed by families through generations. During two world wars which made chocolate a scarce luxury, Cadbury still played its part by supporting workers and soliders with chocolate in care packages to keep spirits up.

THE 2000s

In recent years, Cadbury has introduced new products to suit the tastes of a modern audience. Cadbury Dairy Milk, our oldest chocolate brand, is nearly a hundred years old but is still made as it always was with the equivalent of a glass & a half full cream milk in every 200g. See more history

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