1866-1880

1866

In 1866 the Cadbury brothers visited Holland and brought back the "Van Houten Press". The press could remove so much cocoa butter from the beans that the brothers didn't need to add additives.

1868

Before 1868 cocoa was only used for drinking, but the amount of extra cocoa butter that their Press produced allowed the brothers to make new kinds of eating chocolate types.

1879

By 1878 the Cadbury brothers business consisting of them and 200 other employees had outgrown their factory so in 1879 they began building a new factory on 14 acres

The factory site had a steady water supply and room for growth. It adjoined a railway and canal which linked it to the Bristol docks, which is where the cocoa beans were delivered from the Cadbury brothers own barges.

1880

Cadburys who are already the number 1 name in cocoa, now have their sights on becoming number 1 in chocolate.

Cadburys is soon making chocolate covered nougats, pistache, bonbon delices, caramels, avelines and other fine chocolate

1889