Let me simply focus on the significant revenue synergies we have in combination with Cadbury.
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In combination with Cadbury, the world's second-largest sweetmaker, it would challenge Mars-Wrigley for top spot and add strong businesses in rich countries such as Britain and Australia as well as faster-growing developing countries like India, Brazil and Mexico.
Cadbury is the official "treat provider" with a sponsorship covering the UK. Norman Brodie, general manager of the Cadbury London 2012 program, agrees with Bardin.
Analysts at Panmure Gordon Co. said it was plausible that Kraft Foods might team up with a private equity firm to buy Cadbury and divide the assets between them, with Kraft getting the confectionary business and the private equity fund getting the company's stable and profitable beverage unit.
Analysts at Panmure Gordon Co. said it was plausible that Kraft Foods (nyse: KFT - news - people ) might team up with a private equity firm to buy Cadbury and divide the assets between them, with Kraft getting the confectionary business and the private equity fund getting the company's stable and profitable beverage unit.
His company is a combination of 200-year-old Schweppes and 150-year-old Cadbury, imbued with the strong social conscience of the Quaker Cadburys and owner of some of Britain's (and the world's) best-known food-and-drink brands.
In a statement, Nestle said its decision not to make, or participate in, a formal offer for Cadbury followed discussions with the UK Takeover Panel - the body in charge of regulating takeovers.
Even with the pizza sale, the Cadbury deal pushed long-term debt way up at Kraft.
One family, which has clocked-up more than 100 consecutive years through seven employees working with Fry's and then Cadbury, said Somerdale was more than just a job.
It has the texture of a slightly melted Cadbury Creme Egg, with a shell made of crumbled cookies instead of chocolate and filled with refreshing lemon-bergamot sorbet instead of oozing sugar.
Columbia Pictures, a unit of Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ), will release its screen version of the decades-old origin of the Marvel Comics superhero, with Dr Pepper, a unit of Cadbury Schweppes (nyse: CSG - news - people ), along for the ride as a promotional partner.
Sierra Mist, a new caffeine-free lemon-lime soda that competes with Coca-Cola's Sprite and Cadbury Schweppes' 7up, doesn't exactly make soda into a nutritional beverage, but it blunts one long-standing criticism of Mountain Dew and cola drinks: that they use caffeine as a hook.
Unmoved, he places far less emphasis on compliance with the letter of his recommendations, and of the earlier Cadbury and Greenbury reports, than on firms' need to explain how they apply the principles in practice and to account for any discrepancies.
Similarly in India, Cadbury has very strong route-to-market capability with direct coverage of about 550, 000 stores.
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But the company developing the non-stick gum, Revolymer, believes the product could hit stores in less than a year--with or without the help of a major backer like Wrigley's or Cadbury.
Cadbury's famous Milk Tray chocolates have been the subject of criticism recently, with reports of a number of consumers claiming they don't taste like they used to.
The company said that during the hostile takeover it had not known that Cadbury had spent tens of millions of pounds kitting out a Polish factory, leaving it with no choice but to renege on its commitment to Somerdale.
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