Cadbury's - has the Kraft product dumbing down started?

lucylucky

BargainGalore wrote: »

If the company does allocate to Poland or abroad or change there chocolate I wont be buying it. I already boycott HP sauce when they allocated and I dont buy Terrys chocolate either

Where is HP sauce made then (and I think you meant relocate)?

BargainGalore

Holland I believe

Yes I meant relocate


"In May 2006, Heinz announced plans to switch production of HP Sauce from Aston to its European sauces facility in Elst, the Netherlands"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Sauce

lucylucky

BargainGalore wrote: »

Holland I believe

Yes I meant relocate


"In May 2006, Heinz announced plans to switch production of HP Sauce from Aston to its European sauces facility in Elst, the Netherlands"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Sauce

Thanks

So much has left these shores in terms of manufacturing I really don't even bother looking where things are made.

darkblue_2

tsimehC wrote: »

A Dailymail link to base an informed opinion on. Hmmm...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8507066.stm

http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Business-News/Kraft-confirms-closure-of-Cadbury-s-Somerdale-plant

Daily Mail was the first link on Google.

Kraft expressly stated they would keep it open and leaked documents showed they had absolutely no plans to keep it open. They waited until the merger completed and laid them off anyway.

The bully tactics of a big firm who doesn't give a damn about anything but money.

Of course, all business revolves around money, but to say you will save jobs and then cut them is, frankly, disgusting practice.

DCFC79

darkblue wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8507066.stm

http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Business-News/Kraft-confirms-closure-of-Cadbury-s-Somerdale-plant

Daily Mail was the first link on Google.

Kraft expressly stated they would keep it open and leaked documents showed they had absolutely no plans to keep it open. They waited until the merger completed and laid them off anyway.

The bully tactics of a big firm who doesn't give a damn about anything but money.

Of course, all business revolves around money, but to say you will save jobs and then cut them is, frankly, disgusting practice.

the government(so i heard) did say they were going to meet with the execs of kraft and ask them what they were playing at re the closed plant, the plant was planned for a closure by cadbury anyway but they were honest about it, im boycotting kraft and cadbury as it was a disgrace cadbury sold out,

in reply to the ops question just email cadburys and say the taste has put you off buying cadbury or sometihng like the taste isnt what you expect form a cadburys product

thor

Antispam wrote: »

I have heard that they are going to use milk powder (aka Milka) and reduce the size of the bars

To be fair this trick is something that most manufacturers are trying on these days. The sad thing is that it works:(

Barneysmom

Boycotting Cadbury won't hurt Kraft but it will hurt British workers in Bournville.
Better to boycott Kraft stuff that's made abroad.

darkblue_2

Why should I increase the bank balance of a faceless mass organisation when they're already doing the damage? Even if the entire of the UK were to boycott them, they still have a huge American market who generally don't even know use our products:

Cadbury products in the USA are manufactured and distributed under a franchise agreement by: Hershey Chocolate USA 19 East Chocolate Avenue, PO Box 819

https://www.cadbury.co.uk/Home/Pages/faqs.aspx

DCFC79

Barneysmom wrote: »

Boycotting Cadbury won't hurt Kraft but it will hurt British workers in Bournville.
Better to boycott Kraft stuff that's made abroad.

is bars of milka chocoalte made abroad, isnt toblerone made abroad

zenseeker

I haven't noticed any change in taste, even in the freshest batches to come in store. Boycotts are often tried, but the amount of people boycotting is so laughably small that the company wouldn't even notice the dip in sales.

Personally I don't care where it is made, as long as the taste is the same, and so far it is. The American buy out may actually help the range, we might get some of the more exotic and unusual flavours and fillings that other countries enjoy, such as the Rocky Road Dairy Milk and Black Forest Dairy Milk. I have tasted these American and New Zealand varieties, and the chocolate tastes exactly the same as Brit Dairy Milk, so I have little concern that the brand is going to suffer.