Cadbury: History, Products, And Organizational Structure - An Essay.

You need to include the following information

1. Company structure and organization Jobs/positions/key staff/size/different departments/organizational diagram or table etc.

2. Main product(s)/service(s)Include description of product(s)/service(s), manufacturing process (if relevant), any subsidiary product/service etc. Marketing strategies?

3. Areas of operation and main trading links UK based? Europe based? Other branches? Connections? Subsidiary companies? Head office/other branches located where?
 

History of Cadbury

The purpose of this task is to provide a brief overview about the company Cadbury. This world-renowned organization manufactures different types of chocolates in the market. This organization was formerly based in United Kingdom and now it has expanded its operations in different parts of the world. Further, the below-mentioned task provides detailed information about the history, future and organizational structure etc. activities of the company (Bell 2017). It also provides details about the areas of operation and products or services served by the company. More details, about the task are to be discussed below:

In the year 1824, John Cadbury started selling tea, coffee and dinking chocolate in the Bull Street of UK. Afterwards, he sifted his production to selling a variety of Cocoa and drinking chocolate. Further, in the year 1847, Cadbury collaborated with Benjamin and named the company Cadbury Brothers. And in the year 1849, the company Cadbury introduced its first chocolate bar  but the company declined its growth  in the late 1850’s. After this, the business was taken over by the sons of Cadbury, George and Richard in the year 1861 (Horsky, et. al., 2017). Till the 1865, the business was going in loss but after then the company earned revenue by shifting their focus from tea and coffee to chocolate. Soon the coming diversified their product range to crunchie, fruit and nut etc. Later in 1969 the company merged with Schweppes to produce chocolates. Schweppes was the third largest chocolate manufacturer in US. Further, in the year 2008 both the companies demerged as well. In the year 2009, the company was taken over by Kraft Foods by the way of bidding (US $ 18.9 billion). However, the company faced disapproval from the market due to this acquisition (Harvey Pamburai, et. al., 2015). But, later in 20s the company earned a stable growth and finally in the year 2015, the Cadbury foundation turned 80.

The company has a downward flow of communication and thus follows are hierarchical organizational structure. Further, the departments of the company are discussed below:

Marketing and Sales: The most important activities that are initiated in this process are the market research, promotions and advertisement, and sales. There are four P’s of sales, marketing that is analyzed in this activity, and operations are implemented accordingly (Telang, and Deshpande 2016).

Finance: This department helps in maintaining the objective of the company and aiming high for the worldwide growth. This department controls the flow of money in the company Cadbury and aims to minimize the cost of production in the process.

Organizational Structure, Departments and Activities

Administration and IT support: This department of Cadbury helps them to keep things clean and take orders online as well. Social media has become a great tool to influence the market and circulate the decisions of the activities of the company in the target market (Chakraborty, and Sarkar 2015).

Operations: IT is one of the most important departments of the company where the employees are directly related to the production process of the company. This department overlooks all the activities related to the process of producing chocolates and other confectionery products in the market.

Research and Development: The research and development department of the company research the market conditions to develop the new resources, the aims to innovate the products so as to adequately meet the requirements of the customers present in the market. They also look after the product improvements (Kemp, Hort, and Hollowood 2018).

Customer Services: Customers are the most important people for the company Cadbury. All these activities initiated by the above departments are to satisfy the needs of the customers present in the target market. The company states that customers are simply the natural resource upon which the success of the company depends. Therefore, this department seeks issues of the clients and aims to solve them appropriately.

Human Resource: Human resource management team of the company aims to recruit new and efficient resources that are capable to follow the guidelines of the company fulfill their goals as well. The company aims to diversify their business by recruiting people from different parts of the world (Commander 2018). 

The reason for such extensive growth of the company Cadbury is the quality and variety in products offered. The company offers a huge variety of products and services in the market that people get so many options to choose. Every person’s demand is adequately fulfilled due to such a wide range in products. This market works according to the taste and preference of customers present in the market, so the company provides a variety of chocolates (fruit and nut, caramel, white and dark, milk, crunchy etc.) to meet the needs of the customer. Further not only chocolates but Cadbury also provides numerous confectionery products to the customers as well like chocolate drinks, beverages, Choco chips, cocoa, desserts, drinking chocolate etc. (Bailey, and Alexander 2017). Further marketing strategies of the company is discussed below:

Product: The above-mentioned are the verified details about the products of the company Cadbury.

Product Range and Marketing Strategies

Price: One of the biggest reasons of the sale of the products of this company is due to the economical prices of the products served by Cadbury. The company has different ranges of products according to the segmentation. Like, Cadbury bars have low prices than compared to Cadbury gifting boxes. The pricing strategy of the company is participation costs for competing leisure activities (cinema, other attractions etc.) and Recommended Selling Price (RSP) for confectioneries (Ikpefan, Folashade, Agwu, and Odunaike 2014).

Place: The company serves its products in the worldwide market, there would be no place left by the company to conquer but UK has headquarter of the company. The company has wide distribution channel that helps in supplying the products worldwide.

Promotion: Advertisements are the best way to promote the company in the target market. The company to advertise their brand also captures the social media.

The below mentioned are the areas where the company Cadbury is initiating its operations in the market:

UK: It is the first place where this company was originated as selling tea and coffee in the market. By the time of 2004, the company had 3000 staff and 8 factories in UK. This company also provides confectionery products such as biscuits etc. in the market. Birmingham, England is the place where company has headquartered its operations. Further, other Kraft subsidiaries of the company in UK include Cadbury UK Holdings Limited, Cadbury One LLP, Cadbury Two LLP, Cadbury US Holdings Limited, Cadbury Holdings Limited and Cadbury Four LLP (Vaman, et. al., 2015).

US: Cadbury Adams produces candy, gum, cough drops and breath mints. In US, it is headquartered in New Jersey. In US Cadbury Adam produces wine gums, fuzzy peach, mini fruit gums, sour chiller etc. US have always been a controversial place for the company Cadbury as in the past the customers were not satisfied with the merger and acquisition activities of the company. So, the operations of Cadbury face a hard time in implementing in US.

Ireland: Cadbury Ireland Ltd. Is based in Coolock in Dublin, and the products manufactured served by the company in this area are Cadbury Twirl, Cadbury Snacks, Boost, Flake, Cadbury Dairy milk range etc. The company also produced the time out bar in Ireland but it substantially shifted to Poland.

Canada: Not much products of Cadbury are produced in this country but are imported from other parts of the world. These products are sold under the label of Cadbury and Maynard. In addition, Cadbury Canada is now a part of Mondelez Canada and the products are presented on the Snackworks website (Costello, et. al., 2017).

Areas of Operation

New Zealand: The factory of Cadbury in New Zealand’s south island is placed in Dunedin. In New Zealand, the company partnered with various local confectionery businessman Richard Hudson to supply the products in the market. Further, in 2017 it was expected that the company would close down its factory due to shift their manufacturing process in the Australian factories of Cadbury.

Australia: In Australia, headquarter of the company is placed in Hobart, where the company manufactures its own products and serve them in Australian market.

As Cadbury continues to grow and expand their business in the international market, due to which they receive many opportunities along with threats as well. A potential opportunity that the company should use is their expansion in China, Russia and Nigeria’s market. These countries have large population that shows that there is heavy demand of confectionery products as well. The company can also utilize the new and innovative technology to initiate their sales worldwide. In addition, they have partially come their way by developing an online website but the company should focus on creating application for phones and tablets (Barrientos 2014). Mars and Nestle are the two biggest competitors of the company, so for future purposes they should also initiate activities that decrease the level of competition to some extent.

Conclusion

Thus, in the limelight of above-mentioned events, it should be noted that the company Cadbury is a well-renowned business operating worldwide. The company provides chocolate and other confectionery products in the market. The report provide organizations structure of the company

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