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Inside the Cadbury's Chocolate Factory

Geoff Riley

15th October 2017

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The FT visits the Mondelez chocolate factory in Bournville, Birmingham. The company has reinvested and set up their global chocolate research department there.

There are 23 production lines at the factory - much of which is capital intensive. Investment has increased UK chocolate manufacturing capacity feeding through to rising revenues and market share.

Labour productivity has improved with production increasing whilst employment has contracted. The business is radically different from the original quaker founders.

Video: Sweet result: how Mondelez invested in Cadbury's factory https://t.co/ugcstNCyYW
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) October 14, 2017

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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