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Cadbury Schweppes
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Formed in 1969 by the merger of two very long-established British firms, of which Schweppes was the older. Jacob Schweppe was a German jeweller, living in Geneva, who in the 1780s established a business making aerated water, or soda water. In 1792 he moved to London, then sold most of his interest and returned to Geneva in 1799. The company launched its famous *tonic water in the 1870s and developed fizzy lemonade in the 1880s.
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The firm of Cadbury developed from a grocery shop opened by a Quaker, John Cadbury (1801–89), in 1824 in Birmingham. His most popular items were cocoa and drinking *chocolate, ground by himself in a pestle and mortar; from this developed the huge chocolate enterprise which has continued to be managed by his descendants in an unbroken line. The industrial settlement of *Bournville was begun in 1879, and the company's two best-known products, Dairy Milk and Milk Tray, were launched in 1905 and 1915 respectively. In 1919 Cadbury absorbed Fry, an even older family firm of chocolate makers, also Quakers, which had been established by Joseph Fry in Bristol in the mid-18C.
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