We declare Cadbury, with its iconic purple-wrapped chocolate bars, to be our number one British food brand. The stalwart confectioner goes back almost 200 years, to when a man named John Cadbury opened a grocery shop in Birmingham, selling coffee, cocoa and drinking chocolate. The first Cadbury Easter egg came along in 1875, while Dairy Milk was launched in 1905. Although Cadbury is now owned by Mondelez International, around two-thirds of its chocolate is currently made in the UK and soon “almost all” of its Dairy Milk production will return to its historic Bournville-based factory.

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