1824john Cadbury Opened Bull Street Shop: Chocolate Brands

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1824John Cadbury opened Bull Street shop

In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocers shop at 93 Bull Street, Birmingham. Among other things, he
sold cocoa and drinking chocolate, which he prepared himself using a pestle and mortar.

1831John Cadbury opens factory in Crooked Lane

The Cadbury manufacturing business was born in 1831, when John Cadbury decided to start producing
on a commercial scale and bought a four-storey warehouse in nearby Crooked Lane.

.1842The range expands

By 1842 John Cadbury was selling no less than 16 varieties of drinking chocolate and 11 different
cocoas! The earliest preserved price list shows that you could buy drinking chocolate in the form of both
pressed cakes and powder.

1847The business moves to Bridge Street

In 1847, the Cadbury brothers' booming business moved into a new, larger factory in Bridge Street in the
centre of Birmingham.

1847Fry's Produce the First Chocolate Bar

18th century France produced pastilles (tablets) and bars. But it wasnt until Bristol company Fry & Son
made a chocolate delicieux a manger in 1847 that the first bar of chocolate appeared, as we know it
today.

Cadbury

Dairy Milk

"A glass and a half of milk in every half pound bar of chocolate". Cadbury Dairy Milk milk chocolate was
launched in 1905 and became an instant success. Made with fresh milk from the British Isles, and
Fairtrade cocoa beans, Cadbury Dairy Milk remains one of the UK's top chocolate brands.

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