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The story of Cadbury Daim Bar
The Cadbury name at the till
You know the moment. You are at the corner shop counter, paying for milk or a paper, and a chocolate bar quietly joins the pile. Nobody plans it. Nobody ever has. A bar bought at the till rarely makes it all the way home, and everyone in Britain has made their peace with that. The Cadbury name on this Daim Bar is the bit you spot from across the room, and it carries a fair amount of Birmingham behind it. Not a bad pedigree for an impulse buy.
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Meanwhile, in Birmingham, 1824
In 1824 John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop at 93 Bull Street in Birmingham, selling tea, coffee and drinking chocolate he prepared himself. He was a Quaker, and he promoted drinking chocolate partly as a respectable alternative to alcohol, which is a very polite way to pick a fight with the pub. From 1831 the business moved into factory production of cocoa and drinking chocolate on Bridge Street, Birmingham. The shopkeeper had become a manufacturer.
Two brothers and a village with no pub
His sons, Richard and George, took over the business in 1861. They adopted a Dutch cocoa-pressing method and launched the purer Cocoa Essence in 1866. In 1879 they opened a purpose-built factory at Bournville, south-west of Birmingham, and George developed Bournville into a model village for the firm's workers. It was famous for having no public houses. The Quaker line held firm. Dairy Milk arrived in 1905, was the best-seller by 1914, and got its glass and a half of full-cream milk in 1928.
Mergers, and Bournville still going
Then the family tree got complicated. Cadbury merged with J. S. Fry & Sons in 1919, and with Schweppes in 1969 to form Cadbury Schweppes. Kraft Foods acquired Cadbury in 2010, and it is now part of Mondelez International, created when Kraft split in 2012. Through all of that, Bournville kept going. Cadbury chocolate is still made in Britain today at the historic Bournville factory, in the same city where a grocer once sold cocoa over the counter.