Cadbury

American

[kad-ber-ee, -buh-ree] / ˈkæd bɛr i, -bə ri /

noun

a Neolithic and Iron Age site in Somerset, England, traditionally the Camelot of King Arthur.

Cadbury British

/ ˈkædbərɪ /

noun

George. 1839–1922, British Quaker industrialist and philanthropist. He established, with his brother Richard Cadbury (1835–99), the chocolate-making company Cadbury Brothers and the garden village Bournville, near Birmingham, for their workers

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And earlier last year a man was arrested by Cambridgeshire Police with a coat full of Cadbury's Creme eggs.

From BBC

Sainsbury's said it had begun using "boxes on products which are regularly targeted", with £2.60 bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk locked up in one London branch.

From BBC

Mondelez International declined 4.2% after the owner of brands Oreo and Cadbury posted better-than-expected adjusted fourth-quarter earnings but profit declined on higher cocoa costs.

From Barron's

The owner of Oreo and Cadbury on Tuesday posted a profit of $665 million, or 51 cents a share, compared with $1.75 billion, or $1.30 a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal

But, in a letter to the chair of Parliament's Transport Committee, Ruth Cadbury, Larkinson said the facts which later came to light meant the slot could no longer be considered an effective firebreak.

From BBC

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