Cadbury as a cost-saving measure. In 1992, the company leased the space for £55 per ; by 2002 this had reached £68.75 per square foot. Bournville employs almost 1,000 people. In 2014, Mondelez announced a £75 million investment in the site. Bournville is home to Mondelez's Global Centre of Excellence for Chocolate research and development, so every new chocolate product created by the company anywhere in the world starts life at the Birmingham plant. The confectionery business in the UK is called Cadbury (formerly Cadbury Trebor Bassett) and, as of August 2004, had eight factories and 3,000 staff in the UK.
Geraldine Cadbury World War I In 1937, she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for public and philanthropic services in Birmingham. The Barrow Cadbury Trust was founded in 1920 by Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury. Geraldine Cadbury Dame Geraldine Southall Cadbury, DBE (29 June 186430 January 1941) was a British Quaker, author, social and penal reformer. She was the wife of Barrow Cadbury, with whom she had three children, Dorothy Adlington, (1892-1987), Paul Strangman (1895-1984), and Geraldine Mary, (1900-1999). Geraldine Southall was born in Birmingham, the daughter of Alfred Southall (1838-1931), a chemist by trade and a temperance