Mondelez to bring more Dairy Milk production back to Bournville
Updated: February 4 2021, 5.03pm
Mondelez is to bring the majority of Dairy Milk production back to the Bournville site (Marie Hill/PA)
The owner of Cadbury is to bring more of its Dairy Milk production back to its historic Bournville factory.
Mondelez International, which split from Kraft two years after the US food firm bought Cadbury in 2010, has said it will move some chocolate production which currently takes place in continental Europe to Bournville.
It said it will increase the number of bars it makes at the factory near Birmingham as it launches a £15 million investment plan for the site.
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image captionNew investment means 125 million more Dairy Milk bars will be made in Birmingham
The owner of Cadbury is set to return more of its Dairy Milk production to its historic Bournville factory.
Mondelez International - which owns the chocolate brand - said some production in continental Europe would return to the UK.
Announcing a £15m investment at the Birmingham site, the company said from 2022, 125 million more Dairy Milk bars would be manufactured there.
Bournville village was built by the Cadbury brothers in the 1870s.
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image captionBournville has been home to Cadbury since the 1870s
The owner of Cadbury is to bring more of its Dairy Milk production back to its historic Bournville factory.
Mondelez International, which split from Kraft two years after the US food firm bought Cadbury in 2010, has said it will move some chocolate production which currently takes place in continental Europe to Bournville.
It said it will increase the number of bars it makes at the factory near Birmingham as it launches a £15 million investment plan for the site.
The company, which also makes Oreo and Maynards Bassetts sweets, said £11 million of the funding will go towards creating a new production “line of the future”.