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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Catherine Bennett

Cadbury’s ‘snack right’ slogan is hard to swallow when the company is a ‘sponsor of war’

Illustration by Dominic McKenzie showing the Cadbury Bournville building with two figures exporting a giant chocolate bar to the Kremlin in the background.
Illustration by Dominic McKenzie. Illustration: dominic mckenzie/The Observer

On its bicentenary the chocolate maker Cadbury is keener than ever to remind consumers of its deep connection with the British public: “Yours for 200 years”.

Well, not entirely. Since 2010 Cadbury has belonged first to Kraft then after 2012, to Mondelēz International, a US-based confectionery giant that still chooses to operate factories and pay taxes within Russia. In Ukraine Mondelēz was designated, in 2023, an “international sponsor of war”.

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