Cadbury Creme Egg substitute, with reports of a loss of more than £6m in sales. Creme Eggs are produced by Cadbury UK in Scotland, by The Hershey Company in the United States and by Cadbury Adams in Canada. They are sold by Mondelēz International in all markets except the US, where the Hershey Company has the local marketing rights. At the Bournville factory in Birmingham, in the UK, they are manufactured at a rate of 1.5 million per day. The Creme Egg was also previously manufactured in New Zealand but, since 2009, they are imported from the UK. While filled eggs were first
Egbert Cadbury Egbert Cadbury Major (Honorary Air Commodore) Sir Egbert "Bertie" Cadbury (20 April 1893 – 12 January 1967) was a British businessman, a member of the Cadbury family, who as a First World War pilot shot down two Zeppelins over the North Sea: "L.21" on 28 November 1916, and "L.70" on 6 August 1918: the latter while flying a De Havilland DH.4 with Robert Leckie as observer/gunner. Egbert Cadbury was born in Selly Oak, Birmingham, the youngest son of George Cadbury and his second wife Elizabeth Cadbury, and the grandson of John, the founder the family business. A year after he