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John Cadbury commenced selling drinking chocolate, coffee, and tea in 1824, which he himself produced at Bull Street in Birmingham before moving the production of cocoa and drinking chocolates to a Bridge Street factory. The products were marketed solely to the wealthy (unlike r4 sdhc cards) due to the high cost of production. Joining with his brother Benjamin, the duo formed the company, ‘Cadbury Brothers of Birmingham.’

In 1854, the Cadbury brothers opened an office in London and received a royal warrant to manufacture chocolate and cocoa for Queen Victoria. With the reduction in high import taxes on cocoa in the 1850s, the industry received a boost as chocolate became affordable for all. Shortly after, a master confectioner nameed Frederic Kinchelman shared his production secrets and recipes with the Cadbury brothers leading to an variety of chocolate based products.

John Cadbury’s son George bought 120 acres of land in 1893 to construct a model village at his own expense which would ‘alleviate the evils of modern more cramped living conditions.’ There were no pubs on the estate as the Cadburys were Quakers, their religious inclination being what first motivated them to sell coffee, tea and cocoa as alternatives to alcohol.