rant......Another slice of heritage gone Cadbury.

[dandarez]

bonsai said:

Jimboka said:

I just read on the BBC website that the Cadburys Bristol site is to close & its production goes to Poland. Its been there since before 1919. 400 jobs being exported. From BBC:-
''Products made at Somerdale include Fry's Chocolate Cream, the Double Decker, Dairy Milk, Chocolate Buttons, Creme Eggs and Mini Eggs, Cadbury's Fudge, Chomp and the Crunchie.''

I'll boycott these products once this happens, I hope others do too!

Nice idea in theory, however Creme Eggs just taste too good, and it's coming up to Easter!

That and the fact that Cadbury were looking into closing that plant before the acquisition.

Difference here is Kraft lied!
Tony Bliar isn't helping them run the business is he? Get's his nose in everywhere

As for Creme Eggs just taste too good... get ready to be sick!
Have you tried a Terrys Chocolate Orange since Kraft changed (FU) the ingredients? Thought not.

Buy some of your fav eggs quick my friend and remember the 'old' taste... while you still can, before the 'save $$$ brigade' take this and that out and add a bit of this and a bit of that to make you .

No need to boycott, just like the chocolate orange, sales will plunge, debts will finish Kraft and then there will be the inquisition.

What has happened to this country? We have truly lost the plot.

Edited by dandarez on Tuesday 9th February 23:08

[fastfreddy]

Don't forget what our great leader told us all less than 1 month ago when the takeover was announced:

January 19th 2010:
Gordon Brown moved to reassure Cadbury workers today that their jobs were safe.

As US suitor Kraft Foods finalised a multibillion-pound takeover deal for the British chocolate manufacturer, the Prime Minister said the Government was "determined jobs in Cadbury can be secure".

Speaking at a press conference at Downing Street, he said: "We are determined that the levels of investment that take place in Cadbury in the United Kingdom are maintained and we are determined that, at a time when people are worried about their jobs, that jobs in Cadbury can be secure."

Mr Brown said the Government was doing more than "any government to make sure that people can stay in their jobs".

[bga]

dandarez said:

Difference here is Kraft lied!

Since when did Kraft offer a guarantee that the plant would remain open? They intended to keep it open until further due diligence revealed it to be unrealistic.

Scrapping the plant has been on the books since 2007. When were you planning to boycott Cadburys for doing that?

Edited by bga on Wednesday 10th February 07:14

[anonymous-user]

bga said:

Jimboka said:

I'll boycott these products once this happens, I hope others do too!

were you planning on boycotting Cadburys for doing it?

Yep. No boycott on proper British Cadburys. Just the cheap copies

[Bing o]

fastfreddy said:

Mr Brown said the Government was doing more than "any government to make sure that people can stay in their jobs".

I really wish that they'd stop "doing everything they can" - it's terrifying.

Yet another missed point at PMQ by CMD for not bringing this up IMHO

[Halb]

I want this.
http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project/302/3

Cadburys is lovely.

PretensionHeads, because snobbishness matters

[fido]

Jimboka said:

Yep. No boycott on proper British Cadburys. Just the cheap copies

Don't they just say 'made in the EU' these days?

Edited by fido on Wednesday 10th February 15:48

[F i F]

Halb said:

I want this.
http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project/302/3

Cadburys is lovely.

PretensionHeads, because snobbishness matters

I love that site.

I have a dream, in the style of James May's Toy Stories, you know where he made a 3km Scalextric track round the old Brooklands circuit, my dream is to make a huge scale version of the Ambassador's Party Ferrero Rocher mountain with football sized chocs.

Unfortunately I suspect the cost would equal to UK national debt.

[odyssey2200]

dandarez said:

and then there will be the inquisition.

which will take 3 or 4 years, cost us £15 million and reach no real conclusion.
Just like the MG Rover inquiry

[thinfourth2]

fastfreddy said:

Don't forget what our great leader told us all less than 1 month ago when the takeover was announced:

January 19th 2010:
Gordon Brown moved to reassure Cadbury workers today that their jobs were safe.

.

The second that man sayes something is safe you know it is fked

[Hooty]

The shareholders did well, the workers got shafted. Bitter sweet, isn't it?

[bga]

Hooty said:

The shareholders did well, the workers got shafted. Bitter sweet, isn't it?

Which workers? The ones that were losing their jobs anyway. In reality in the Cadburys setup it is the "workers" who have most secure jobs. The more bright and flexible staff will be shed as Cadburys is amalgamated into the Kraft organisation.

[ExChrispy Porker]

odyssey2200 said:

I remember when you could see the word FRYs writen in white stones on the embankment next to the Keynsham by pass.

Sadly I remember before the bypass was built. And it was all fields around here, obviously

[4sure]

keeps getting better......the lying yanks have stuffed us all once again !

[skyslimit]

And, if you read the news it confirms as I said before. A debt laden US company.

Being a Fortune 500 member does NOT exempt you from this disease.

Some changes needed in UK law I think. Sooner the better.

[Jimbeaux]

4sure said:

keeps getting better......the lying yanks have stuffed us all once again !

What have we supposedly done now?

[Jimbeaux]

skyslimit said:

And, if you read the news it confirms as I said before. A debt laden US company.

Being a Fortune 500 member does NOT exempt you from this disease.

Some changes needed in UK law I think. Sooner the better.

Kraft is debt laden? Please post a link so we can see what you mean.

[skyslimit]

Jimbeaux said:

skyslimit said:

And, if you read the news it confirms as I said before. A debt laden US company.

Being a Fortune 500 member does NOT exempt you from this disease.

Some changes needed in UK law I think. Sooner the better.

Kraft is debt laden? Please post a link so we can see what you mean.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100316/tuk-call-for-cadbury-s-law-after-kraft-s-45dbed5.html

Sixth paragraph down. Best I can find right now. I'll dig out some of the financial reports I read a few weeks ago when I get time.

[Jimbeaux]

skyslimit said:

Jimbeaux said:

skyslimit said:

And, if you read the news it confirms as I said before. A debt laden US company.

Being a Fortune 500 member does NOT exempt you from this disease.

Some changes needed in UK law I think. Sooner the better.

Kraft is debt laden? Please post a link so we can see what you mean.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100316/tuk-call-for-cadbury-s-law-after-kraft-s-45dbed5.html

Sixth paragraph down. Best I can find right now. I'll dig out some of the financial reports I read a few weeks ago when I get time.

Learn how to link and I will give it a try. Until then, what is your objection? There are US companies that have been purchased by larger British operations; should I b!tch about those?

[s2art]

It looks like Kraft sincerely intended to keep the UK plant open, until they learned that the previous Cadbury management had already invested millions in Poland. So blame the dhead Cadbury managment, a brilliant move now that the pound is much weaker!