The Cadbury's website says that the reason behind the Flake being called a 99 has been " lost in the mists of time " although it also repeats an article from an old Cadbury works paper, which states the name came from the guard of the Italian king which consisted of 99 men and " subsequently anything really special or first class was known as 99.

In addition, fierce competition from Cadbury's newly formed Dairy Milk superbrand also contributed to sales of the Kit Kat decreasing considerably in its home market of the UK, and threatened to depose it from its # 1 position.

Although Bournville is most famous for its turn-of-the-20th century Cadbury style homes, a significant amount of more modern stock also exists in the area — not all of which was built by Cadbury's.

It also links some 15 commercial centres, and passes Cadbury's in Bournville, one of the world's largest chocolate factories.

Moreton is also known for being the home of the Burton's factory, producer of Cadbury's biscuits and now owned by Street Capital.

She was also one of the alien voices in the Cadbury's Smash advertisements in the 1970s.

Donna also is a brand ambassador for Health Lottery, Burberry, Next, Westfield, Olay, Cadbury's and Triumph.

She was also one of the alien voices in the Cadbury's Smash advertisements in the 1970s.

While other suburban Birmingham railway stations feature the yellow and green corporate livery of Centro, Bournville railway station is instead painted in Cadbury's purple.

* The Food of the Gods-the manufacture chapter provides an overview of the Cadbury's Bournville operation at the turn of the 20th century — from Project Gutenberg

Local work was plentiful, especially at the Austin Motor Works at Longbridge and, for the women, at Cadbury's chocolate factory in Bournville or the Kalamazoo paper factory in Longbridge, which had been moved to the area by Oliver Morland and F. Paul Impey in 1913 from central Birmingham.

Although many prominent examples of company towns portray their founders as " capitalists with a conscience ", for example George Cadbury's Bournville, if viewed cynically the company town was often an economically viable ploy to attract and retain workers.

Cadbury's later becomes one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world and is still in production across the world today with a major production plant in Bournville.

Cadbury's objectives in Bournville were the construction of decent quality homes at prices affordable to industrial workers.

The growth of railway towns was often in the mould of the ' paternalistic employer ' providing housing, schools, hospitals, churches and civic buildings for their workers, similar to Cadbury's Bournville ; there was a " very rigid and unimaginative control " of the workers by GWR in Swindon.

He was well known to television audiences as a team captain on the long-running BBC2 series Call My Bluff, and did voice-overs for advertisements, including Cadbury's Fruit & Nut chocolate (" Everyone's a Fruit and Nut case "), Batchelors ' Savoury Rice (" Every grain will drive them insane!

Cadbury's Factory on the Oscar Traynor Road.

Later, he appeared on the fourth series of Shooting Stars, alongside Patsy Kensit, where he threw a bomb at Johnny Vegas and in 2007 he became the face of Cadbury's Wispa relaunch, appearing on bilboards and magazine advertisements.

After Cambridge she taught 14-year-old girls at Cadbury's Continuation School in Bourneville on day release from the chocolate factory.

Manor Bakeries, the former Cadbury's cakes department, ( now owned by Premier Foods Group ) is located in the town at Reeds Lane, near to Leasowe railway station.

One notable business in the city is the Cadbury chocolate factory which manufactures most of the Cadbury's chocolate for the Southern Hemisphere.

From 1957 – 1959, they worked in six-month stretches at Cadbury's to raise money for a new flat ; they moved into a small, austere flat at 25 Noel Road in Islington in 1959.

Davies has performed a large amount of advertising voice-over work, and his distinctive, deep voice could be heard as New Zealand's Pink Batts house insulations and confectionery ads for Cadbury's Wispa.

Cadbury-Schweppes had been a client of Pritchard Wood, and BMP's first campaign was for Cadbury's Smash, a powdered mashed-potato mix.

" Goo-ology " was a series of promotional shorts for Cadbury's Creme Egg, parodying pivotal scenes from cult movies ( Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Alien and Frankenstein ).

In Britain and Ireland, a " 99 " is the term for a vanilla ice cream cone with a Cadbury's chocolate flake pressed into the ice cream.

The earliest to feature the pair was for Cadbury's Boost chocolate bar in the early 1990s.

Having taken over their father John Cadbury's expanding business in 1861, the Quakers George and Richard Cadbury needed to move their cocoa and chocolate factory from Bridge Street in central Birmingham to a greenfield site to allow for expansion.

Around this time, she voiced the female rabbit character in the animated commercials for Cadbury's Caramel bars and provided the voice of Fly the dog in the animated film Babe ( 1995 ).

He did not take a BSB victory in either 1996 or 1997, but was hired by Rob McElnea's dominant Cadbury's Boost Yamaha team for 1998-to the surprise of commentator Barry Nutley.

Cadbury's was founded in Birmingham and later became a household name in Britain, selling Cocoa bean | cocoa based foods and drink and pioneering mass food manufacture techniques as well as major advances in the well being of employees by providing homes and encouraging fitness through sport. 1821: Emanuel Heaton, gun finisher, takes out a patent for a water tight pan for gun locks.

He has appeared in television commercials for Fox's Biscuits, Colgate Toothpaste, Maltesers and Cadbury's Twirl.

These were accompanied by several other products: Flake ( 1920 ), Cream-filled eggs ( 1923 ), Crunchie ( 1929 ) ( Crunchie was originally launched under the Fry's name but later adopted by Cadbury's ) and Roses ( 1938 ).

The town's two liquorice factories are owned by Haribo ( formerly known as Dunhills ) and Monkhill Confectionery ( part of the Cadbury's Group-formerly known as Wilkinson's ), respectively.

These include Dairy Milk, white chocolate, rice crisp, strawberry, peppermint, Crunchie ( with bits of Cadbury's ' Crunchie ' bar put in ), pineapple ( Only in ' twin-packs '), " Rainbow Crunch " and " Milky Top " ( the top half being white chocolate and the bottom milk chocolate, in the style of Cadbury's " Top Deck " products ).

Initially sold as Fry's Creme Eggs ( incorporating the Fry's brand ), they were renamed " Cadbury's Creme Eggs " in 1971.

Bassett & Co Ltd who had taken over Wilkinsons ( Pontefract cakes / mushrooms ), Barratts ( sherbet fountains / sweet cigarettes ) and Trebor ( mints ) before being taken over themselves by the Cadbury's consortium.

It was home to the Cadbury's chocolate factory, Somerdale, which opened in 1935 as a major employer in the town.

At the southern end of the Leominster Bypass the A49 passes the Cadbury's Marlbrook chocolate factory.

* 1928: Cadbury's Claremont factory makes first chocolate

This theory, which was repeated by later antiquaries, is bolstered, or may have derived from, Cadbury's proximity to the River Cam and towns Queen Camel and West Camel, and remained popular enough to help inspire a large-scale archaeological dig in the 20th century.

Cadbury's Milk Tray was first produced in 1915 and continued in production throughout the remainder of the First World War.

It was advertised to the trade as being made with Cadbury's chocolate as ' couverture '.

George Cadbury ( 19 September 1839 – 24 October 1922 ) was the third son of John Cadbury, a Quaker who founded Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company.

Richard Barrow Cadbury ( 29 August 1835 – 22 March 1899 ) was the second son of the Quaker John Cadbury, founder of Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company.

By this point, Cadbury's was the brand leader in the United Kingdom.

Until September 2010, Crunchie was produced in the Somerdale, Keynsham plant in Somerset, UK ; however, production has now transferred to Cadbury's new plant in Skarbimierz, Poland.

A Cadbury's variant of the Rich Tea was coated in chocolate, similar to a digestive.