History of Cadbury History of Cadbury Cadbury is a British multinational confectionery company owned by Mondelēz International. It is the second largest confectionery brand in the world after Mars. Cadbury is headquartered in Uxbridge, London, and operates in more than fifty countries worldwide. Its best known products include Dairy Milk chocolate. In 1824, John Cadbury began to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate from his premises in Birmingham. Cadbury developed the business with his brother Benjamin, and later his sons Richard and George. George developed the Bournville estate, a model village designed to improve the living conditions of company employees. Dairy Milk chocolate,
William Adlington Barrow Cadbury William Adlington Barrow Cadbury William Adlington Cadbury (17 February 1867 – 8 July 1957), was an English businessman affiliated with his family company, Cadbury, which his grandfather, John Cadbury had founded. He was born in Edgbaston and educated at Quaker schools. He began working at Cadbury in 1887. In 1905 he commissioned the first Cadbury logo. In 1921, the Cadbury script logo was introduced, based on William Cadbury's signature. He married Geraldine Southall (later Dame Geraldine Cadbury) on 8 September 1891, at the Friends' meeting house in Birmingham. Their children were Dorothy Adlington (1892–1987), Paul Strangman (1895–1984), and Geraldine Mary