Cadbury Schweppes

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Cadbury Schweppes plc
Cadbury-Schweppes logo
Type of Company Public
(LSE: CBRY, NYSE: CSG)
Founded 1905
Headquarters Berkeley Square, London, England
Key people Sir John Sunderland, Chairman
Todd Stitzer, CEO, Director
Industry Beverages (Non-Alcoholic) and Confectionery
Products See below
Revenue £6.5 billion (2005)
Net income £1.1 billion (2005)
Employees 59,000
Slogan Working together to create
brands people love.
Website www.cadburyschweppes.com

Cadbury Schweppes plc is a confectionery and beverage company with its headquarters in Berkeley Square, London, England. However, it does not manufacture Schweppes beverages for Brazil, Hong Kong, Ireland, 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 they sell through their subsidiary company Green & Black's.

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[edit] Overview

[edit] Schweppes

Johann Jacob Schweppe (born 1740 in Witzenhausen, Hessen, 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.

[edit] Cadbury's

Independently, in 1824, John Cadbury began vending tea, coffee, and (later) chocolate at Bull Street in Birmingham in England and sometime in India and Pakistan. The company was then known as Cadbury Brothers Limited.

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

[edit] Merger

The two companies merged to form Cadbury Schweppes in 1969. Cadbury also operates factories in Dublin (Ireland), Dunedin (New Zealand), Port Elizabeth (South Africa), Ringwood (Melbourne, Australia) and Claremont (Tasmania, Australia).

[edit] Domestic and International Subsidiaries

  • UK:- 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.
  • USA:- The Cadbury Schweppes company's presence in the United States consists of the beverage unit Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages, and confectionery unit Cadbury Adams. 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 Schweepes announced that it would be outsourcing its transactional accounting and order capture functions to Shared Business Services (SBS) centers run by a company called Genpact, (A businesses services provider)in India, China and Romania. This was to effect 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 Resouces shared centers may follow. This move is likely to lead to several hundred job losses worldwide

[edit] Beverages

Cadbury Schweppes beverages include:

[edit] Chocolates

Cadbury Schweppes chocolates and sweets (candies) include:

In addition to these chocolates, a number of the brands have been sub-licensed to Frederick's Dairies to make a range of ice-cream versions. In the United States, most Cadbury branded chocolates are produced in Pennsylvania by the Hershey's chocolate company. Brand names sold include the Caramilk and Dairy Milk, as well as "Fruit & Nut" (with raisins and peanuts) and "Royal Dark" brands.

[edit] Recall

On 24th June 2006, Cadbury-Schweppes announced that there has been a salmonella scare in their products, causing millions of chocolate bars from stores across the UK to be recalled. Cadbury officially reported on the 2nd August that they had lost £20 million as a result of recalling the bars. However they are trying to minimise the damage, by issuing vouchers for returned products rather than cash.

[edit] Green & Black's

A range of upscale organic and Fairtrade chocolate.

[edit] Trebor Bassett

This brand competes with Nestlé's Rowntree's brand over a number of product categories and features gums and mints.

[edit] Other products

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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