Amusement

[andrewducker]

Name the following business.

It has a workforce of 39,000 outside the UK, with just 6,000 staff in Britain.

Its biggest business is chewing gum.

The focus of much recent investment has been Poland, to replace UK production.

And 50% of the business and management came from the takeover of the confectionery company Adams from an American drugs business some five years ago.

Who is this faceless, heartless global conglomerate, which opportunistically shifts its capital and people to wherever the financial returns are greatest?

It's Cadbury.

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Comments

[andrewducker]

I'm not sure what they'd gain from that, to be honest. Do Americans work that much cheaper than the British? Or, indeed, the Polish?

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Centralisation mainly, and if their own plants can make the products they now own then why would they need ours? In reality this is more long term and a lot of people will start to forget about the take over when anything like this (or even moving some to poland) happens.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

No more curly-wurlys? :(

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I doubt they will make any dramatic changes to the products. Chocolate in the UK is very different to that sold in the US. Generally people like what they are used to, hence why many Brits find Hershey bars etc. unpleasant.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

This is a much nicer answer than the usual "English chocolate is SHIT" rants I hear. :)

hurrah! Curly-wurlys for everyone!

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Compared to Hershey bars, Cadburys is the stuff of legends.