fast facts
Chocolate is made from the seeds of the tree Theobroma cacao. Theobroma is Greek for “food of the gods”
Production of Cadbury products at Bournville began in 1879
Cadbury is a global business with factories all over the world
The Cadbury production line runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 364 days per year
The Cadbury Creme Egg production line makes 600,000 eggs every 12-hour shift – roughly the weight of 3 elephants!
If all the Cadbury Creme Eggs made each year were laid end to end, they would circle the planet
Enough Cadbury Dairy Milk is sold each year to cover every Premiership and Championship football pitch – five times over
If you laid all of the Roses units made in a year from end to end, they would stretch from London to New York and back again
Cadbury uses more than 60, 000 tonnes of cocoa each year. That’s enough to fill the Albert Hall five times over
Cadbury is a very big organisation which employs approximately 50,000 people in many different business areas across the globe
Workers on the Bournville production line work a 12-hour shift. They have two 18 minute breaks during the shift and meal break of 42 minutes after six hours. They will work for four days and then have four days off
Cadbury’s Community programme provides support to its local communities across the world. All employees are encouraged to volunteer in projects in the local area
Cadbury uses flow production to make hundreds of thousands of the same product, machinery moving each product along a production line
As well as using flow production, Cadbury also uses batch production – some machines are set to make different products at different times
Production at Bournville, the home of Cadbury, began in 1879. It is the largest of several processing and production sites across the UK and almost 3,000 people work there