Cadbury is owned by Mondelēz (the United States, NASDAQ: MDLZ), which has held the brand since 2 February 2010, when Kraft Foods acquired it for £11.5 billion from Cadbury plc.[1][2] Before Mondelēz, Cadbury was owned by Kraft Foods from 2010 to 2012.[2]
Evidence: Mondelez International, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-04, SEC EDGAR, 4 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Cadbury was founded by John Cadbury, a Quaker who opened a tea and coffee shop in Birmingham in 1824 and added drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol. The company built the model village of Bournville for its workers. Kraft Foods acquired it in a contested 2010 takeover, and it passed to Mondelēz when Kraft split in 2012.
Sentences about Cadbury from Mondelēz's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
We work to introduce new varieties of our core products, including new taste or nutrition profiles that cater to evolving consumer preferences, such as the launch of co-branded chocolate innovations combining Biscoff with Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and other key brands in Europe as well as zero sugar Bournvita in India.
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
The USPTO record for the Cadbury mark lists CADBURY UK LIMITED as the owner of record (serial number 71026520). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[3]
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Mondelēz controls 28 brands on Brandtree, 26 of them in food.
The 131 brands in chocolate on Brandtree belong to 45 owners. The largest is Mars, with 9; Mondelēz has 9.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bounty | Mars | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Danusia | Wawel | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| Elizabeth Shaw | Colian | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| Baby Ruth | Ferrero | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Almond Joy | Hershey | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Caffarel | Lindt & Sprüngli | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Eitt Sett | Nói Síríus | 🇮🇸 Iceland |
| Águila | Arcor | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
Mondelēz is a publicly listed company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, founded in 2012. Brandtree records 28 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: MDLZ.
Mondelēz International is the snacks company created in 2012 when Kraft Foods split in two, keeping the global biscuit, chocolate and gum businesses while the North American grocery business became Kraft Foods Group.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 554 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 292 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Cadbury among them.
Kraft Foods won a hostile takeover of Cadbury after a five-month battle, closing at 840 pence per share in cash and shares. Kraft closed the Somerdale factory it had promised to keep open, which led to criticism in Parliament and changes to the UK takeover code. Cadbury passed to Mondelēz in the 2012 split.
The parent company of Cadbury is Mondelēz, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
No. Cadbury is owned by Mondelēz, not Hershey.
Cadbury originated in the United Kingdom in 1824, but it is owned today by Mondelēz, which is headquartered in the United States. So Cadbury is a British-origin brand under American ownership.
Mondelēz completed its acquisition of Cadbury on 2 February 2010, after announcing the deal on 7 September 2009. The deal was valued at £11.5 billion.
Before Mondelēz, Cadbury was owned by Kraft Foods from 2010 until 2012.
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Cadbury is still owned by Mondelēz. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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