Organisational Analysis Of Cadbury

Haigh’s chocolate currently has over 300 employees and 13 retail stores; six in Adelaide, six in Melbourne and one in Sydney (Haight's Chocolates). They manufacture 200 different products and also produce a number of products whose sales supports various charities. (Soong-Kroeger, 2011)

Cadbury is a British multinational confectionery company wholly owned by Mondelez International since 2010. It is the second-largest confectionery brand in the world after Wrigley's. Cadbury is internationally headquartered in Uxbridge, West London, and operates in more than 50 countries worldwide. It is famous for its Dairy Milk chocolate, the Creme Egg and Roses selection box, and many other confectionery products. Cadbury was established in Birmingham, England in 1824, by John Cadbury who sold tea, coffee and drinking chocolate. Cadbury developed the business with his brother Benjamin, followed by his sons Richard and George. George developed the Bournville estate, a model village designed to give the company's workers improved living conditions. Dairy Milk chocolate, introduced in 1905, used a higher proportion of milk within the recipe compared with rival products. By 1914, the chocolate was the company's best-selling product. Cadbury, alongside Rowntree's and Fry, were the big three British confectionery manufacturers throughout much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

2. Kraft’s marketing strategy will benefit significantly from buying Cadbury in two different ways. Firstly, when we look at the brand portfolio of Kraft, which is the world’s second biggest food company. It is clear that there are plenty of old-timer cash cows, such as cheese, Nabisco and Suchard, but there are only very few rising stars. According to the Boston Matrix, cash cow means a product with a high share of a slow growth market, which can generate a stable

Cadbury uses market penetration strategies to keep people aware of their brand. They do this all in their current market. They do this by selling more to existing customers, like selling their products in multi-packs. This means that the customers can buy their products in larger quantities and it will encourage them to do so as they can have more of the product instead of buying it individually. They also use product development strategies such as selling new products in an existing market.

The person, who created the Cadbury business, is John Cadbury in 1824. The business started as a shop in a fashionable place in Birmingham. It sold things such as tea and coffee, mustard and a new sideline - cocoa and drinking chocolate, which John Cadbury prepared himself using a mortar and pestle. In 1847 the Cadbury business became a partnership. This is because John Cadbury took his brother, which also made it a family business. The business was now known as The Cadbury Brothers. A factory in Birmingham was rented, to produce their products. In 1854 the company received its first Royal Warrant as 'manufacturers of cocoa and chocolate to Queen Victoria '. In 1856 John Cadbury 's son Richard joined the company, followed

The move has paid off, boosting internet sales by 17.2pc in the same period. Mr Davies said: "During Easter, sales of our excellent chocolate and ice cream products performed well and the Group expects it full year performance to be in line with expectations."

Eventually, the globalization of cocoa beans brought an idea to the minds of two young men in the 1800s. According to an article “The Creation of a Company Culture: Cadburys” by Charles Dellheim, the start of Cadbury wasn’t even chocolate. Instead, John Cadbury, the founder of the company, traded tea and coffee in Birmingham which later grew to become a factory process. However, when his sons George and Richard Cadbury took over, the company was already dwindling and on the verge of collapse when they ingeniously changed the product from tea and coffee to cocoa and chocolate. They also changed the process of cocoa making and utilized the Dutch process to make the chocolate taste better and it resulted in a much higher quality chocolate (Dellheim, 17). Even from the very start, the Cadbury company might not have succeeded without globalization, as it was the Dutch process of chocolate-making that allowed the British firm to really take off in the mid-19th century, with its signature Dairy Milk bar released in 1905. The family-run business gradually expanded over the years throughout England and then built its first overseas factory in Australia in 1919. This was during the modern period when other brand names such as Coca-Cola, Remington, and Campbell started making themselves known on the global market

Their ice cream pints and even the scoops shops are made out of eco-friendly products, which can attract the environmental conscious customers to their products. Also

In late 2009 Cadbury announced that they were using palm oil as a cheaper alternative to coca butter in its dairy milk chocolate bar. Cadbury has reduced the amount of cocoa solids from 26% to 21% and added nasty vegetable fats specifically palm oil – to compensate. The company claims that it’s done this, not to save costs as you might think, but to improve the customer experience.

Cadburys worked out with amul to make mithai and add chocolate like Indo Western style but it did not attract customers so Cadbury did intensive research and started promoting through different media and hit the slogan “just for kids in 90s”. Later on they shifted to the campaign for teenagers who shared the real taste of life, memorable instances which stayed in everyone’s life” like a girl dancing in the cricket field” this campaign was awarded the “campaign of century in India.” From here they targeted the campaign of consumption of chocolates amongst adults which was portrayed by Mr. Amitabh Bachan were different relations, special moments, festive occasions, reunions were showed with happiest moments with a slogan “kuch meeta ho jaya” this is an excellent technique of reaching the Indian cultural barrier of mithai the promotion of Cadbury cleverly put up to equalize a chocolate and a mithai.

This is a way to attract those people who eat chocolates on the move and also creating an image and recall value in the minds of the consumers so that even if they don't buy at least the name, logo would remain in their minds.

The location of Cadbury World is far away from town. The coaches often arrive late and miss their agreed times because of the difficulty of estimating the duration of road journeys. This has compromised with speed and dependability as the delay adds to the queues of visitors at the exhibition entrance at busy periods

My topic for the Summer Project is to study the Marketing Strategies of Cadbury. Cadbury is a British multinational confectionary company which manufactures choclates of high quality. I have chosen this particular topic because the youth as well as the adult population of the nation loves the brand. Cadbury has always been my favorite since childhood as it offers a complete range of choclates which are in high quality and best taste.

Cadbury as we know is a well-known company all over the world engaged in services of producing confectionery products. Cadbury provides its customers with world’s best chocolates and candies in more than 50 countries in the world and having a good and satisfied public relation with its customers.

Cadbury, beside many other companies, supply the local market through its local production units. Cadbury India manages to practice this through five factories, located in Thane, Pune, Induri and Malanpur in West India, and Baddi in North India. Cocoa, being a major raw material as discussed, is not only imported but also procured mainly from local plantations in South India, in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The company, after manufacturing many of its mouthwatering products exports them in bulk to Sri Lanka, Dubai, the US and the Maldives. The positive outcome of this is that Cadbury India does not have to be involved in third party manufacturing.