Amazing- The changes faces of Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate Cadbury- Company intro Cadbury is a confectionery company owned by Kraft Foods and is the industry's second-largest globally after Mars, Incorporated. Headquartered in Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom, the company operates in more than 50 countries worldwide. Cadbury was founded almost 200 years ago when John Cadbury opened a shop in Bull Street, Birmingham in 1824. Cadbury's cocoa & drinking chocolate soared in popularity resulting in sale of 11 sorts of cocoa & 16 distinct lines of drinking chocolate by 1842. In 1905 Cadbury launched the world-famous Dairy Milk bar – still going strong today. Cadbury & others also started making 'Countlines' – bars with other ingredients like nougat, wafer & honeycomb, covered in chocolate – think of Crunchie & Flake.