In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop in Bull Street in Birmingham and started to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate alongside everything else. In 1831, he opened a factory and started to manufacture his own product, and by 1842 the company was selling almost 30 different types of drinking chocolate and cocoa.
In 1861, the now floundering firm was taken over by two of his sons, Richard and George, who turned things around and continued to grow the company into the organisation we see today.
There is a lot of information available about George Cadbury, but the only previously published biography of his older brother Richard is now out of print. The Life of Richard Cadbury is a brand-new biography hoping to put that straight, looking at the history and background behind the socialist, philanthropist and chocolatier.
- ISBN13 9781526768254
- Publish Date 26 November 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 March 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Imprint Pen & Sword History
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English