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Cadbury Schweppes Cadbury Schweppes is to sell its Monkhill sugar confectionery business to Tangerine Confectionery for £58m, with the transfer of more than 800 jobs at sites in York, Cleckheaton, Pontefract and Chesterfield. 21-Jan-2008 Cadbury Schweppes is to close its chocolate confectionery factory at Keynsham in Bristol by 2010, with the loss of 500 jobs, and a further 200 jobs will go at its Bournville site. 04-Oct-2007 Cadbury Schweppes has acquired Southeast Atlantic Beverage Corp, the US drinks bottler, for undisclosed terms. 16-Jul-2007 Cadbury Schweppes is planning to close about ten unspecified factories worldwide by 2011, with the loss of 7,800 jobs, as part of a restructuring programme that will also involve the sale or demerger of its Schweppes drinks business. 20-Jun-2007 Cadbury Schweppes is to acquire Sansei Foods, the Japanese functional candy company, for about £57m. 19-Jun-2007 Cadbury Schweppes is to acquire Kandia-Excelent, the Romanian confectionery manufacturer, for about £60m. 11-Jun-2007 Cadbury Schweppes is to acquire Intergum, the Turkish gum manufacturer, for £225m. 08-Jun-2007 Cadbury Schweppes has sold a further three non-core operations, with HJ Heinz acquiring its Australian jams business for £29m, a new company acquiring its Canadian candy business for £10m, and Leaf Italia acquiring its Italian confectionery business for £6m. 06-Jun-2007 Cadbury Schweppes is said to be planning to relocate its London headquarters and up to 200 staff from Mayfair to Uxbridge. 04-Jun-2007 Cadbury Schweppes is to shed up to 70 of the 200 jobs at its Minworth distribution centre in North Warwickshire, but will invest £3m upgrading equipment at the site over the next 12 months. 22-May-2007 Cadbury Schweppes is planning to separate its confectionery and Americas Beverages businesses, and further details on the demerger will be announced in June. 16-Mar-2007 Cadbury Schweppes is to acquire Carlyle Group's 53% stake in the US-based Dr Pepper Seven Up Bottling Group for £198m, and will also acquire the All American Bottling Company for £36m. 26-Apr-2006 Cadbury Schweppes is looking to sell Monkhill, its own-label confectionery and popcorn business with four factories and one distribution depot, for about £80m. 10-Apr-2006 Cadbury Schweppes is to sell Bromor Foods, its South African soft drinks business, to Tiger Brands for £109m. 05-Apr-2006 Cadbury Schweppes has acquired the South African chewing gum business of Dan Products for £33m. 09-Feb-2006 Cadbury Schweppes has sold Holland House, its US-based cooking wine business, to Mizkan Americas for £21m. 29-Dec-2005 Cadbury Schweppes is to sell its Grandma's Molasses business in the US to B&G Foods for £17m. 28-Dec-2005 Cadbury Schweppes is to build a £70m chewing gum factory in Poland by 2008, while £30m is being invested in the expansion of a Mexican factory. 13-Dec-2005 Cadbury Schweppes is to sell its European drinks division, which has 3,000 staff in 30 countries, to private equity firms Blackstone Group and Lion Capital for £1.27bn. 22-Nov-2005 Cadbury Schweppes is looking to sell its European drinks business for up to £1.1bn, including a wide range of soft drinks and mineral waters. 05-Sep-2005 Cadbury Schweppes has acquired Green & Black's, the London-based organic confectionery company with 30 staff, for undisclosed terms. 16-May-2005 Cadbury Schweppes is planning to invest £40m in the expansion of its Bournville chocolate confectionery factory in Birmingham by autumn 2006. 10-May-2005 Cadbury Schweppes has acquired the Orangina soft drink brand from Pernod Ricard for £21m. 04-Nov-2004 Cadbury Schweppes has announced plans to shed 300 jobs at its confectionery factory in Birmingham, while 170 jobs will go at its Keynsham factory. 08-Dec-2003 Cadbury Schweppes is planning to reduce its 55,000-strong worldwide workforce by 5,500 and close 27 of its 133 factories over the next four years, but declined to give details of where the cuts will take place. 29-Oct-2003 Cadbury Schweppes is to close two confectionery factories in Chesterfield and Manchester by the end of 2004, with the loss of up to 555 jobs. 13-Oct-2003 Cadbury Schweppes has agreed to acquire Adams, the US chewing gum manufacturer, from Pfizer for £2.7bn. 17-Dec-2002 Cadbury Schweppes is to buy the remaining 72% of Apollinaris Schweppes, the German soft drinks company, from Brau und Brunnen for £97m. 18-Sep-2002 Cadbury Schweppes is to acquire the branded chewing gum business of Dandy of Denmark for £201m. 28-Jun-2002 Cadbury Schweppes is considering plans to launch a £2.8bn bid for Adams, the US gum and sweets company, later this year. 16-May-2002 Cadbury Schweppes is in discussions to acquire Dandy, the Danish chewing gum company, for about £350m. 23-Apr-2002 Cadbury Schweppes is considering plans to move into the US mineral water market by acquiring a small premium brand and using its distribution network to grow the business. 02-Apr-2002 Cadbury Schweppes is to acquire Nantucket Allserve, the US soft drinks company with annual sales of £42m, for undisclosed terms. 26-Mar-2002 Cadbury Schweppes is to buy Squirt, the Mexican soft drink, from Refremex for undisclosed terms. 26-Feb-2002 Cadbury Schweppes has acquired a 51% stake in Kent Gida, the Turkish sugar confectionery company, for £90m. 22-Feb-2002 Cadbury Schweppes is planning to set up a chain of coffee shops following a trial in Bath, and is particularly interested in leisure centre sites. 04-Feb-2002 Cadbury Schweppes is in negotiations to acquire an equity stake in Kent, the Turkish sugar confectionery manufacturer, and its Birlik distribution arm. 18-Jan-2002 Cadbury Schweppes is to buy the ReaLemon and ReaLime juice brands in the US, including a New York factory, from Eagle Family Foods for £90m. 15-Aug-2001 Cadbury Schweppes has agreed to acquire La Casera, the Spanish lemonade company, for £72m. 25-Jul-2001 Cadbury Schweppes has sold the international business of Royal Crown Cola to Cott Corporation of Canada for £68m. 14-Jun-2001 Cadbury Schweppes has confirmed plans for the £419m acquisition of Pernod Ricard's soft drinks operations, which include the Orangina brand. 07-Jun-2001 Cadbury Schweppes is in negotiations to acquire La Casera, the Spanish soft drinks company, for about £60m. 09-May-2001 Cadbury Schweppes is considering plans to close some of its 56 factories around the world over the next three years in order to increase efficiency. 20-Feb-2001 Cadbury Schweppes is looking to expand the distribution of its confectionery products into new outlets such as hospitals, pubs and other public places, partly through the use of vending machines. 15-Feb-2001 Cadbury Schweppes is expanding in Argentina with the £15m purchase of the Mantecol confectionery product from Georgalos Hnos. 19-Jan-2001 Cadbury Schweppes has acquired Wuxi-Leaf, the Chinese chewing gum company, for £1.6m, and will combine the distribution network with its chocolate business. 02-Nov-2000 Cadbury Schweppes is to buy out the minority shareholders in its South African subsidiary for £143m and sell its brewing division to South African Breweries for £45m. 23-Oct-2000 Cadbury Schweppes is in negotiations to buy the Orangina soft drinks business from Pernod Ricard of France for £450m. 29-Sep-2000 Cadbury Schweppes has acquired Snapple Beverage Group, the US soft drinks company, for £1.05bn, and is now seeking further acquisitions in the US, Europe and Australia. 19-Sep-2000 Cadbury Schweppes has bought Pepsi Cola Bottlers Australia for a sum thought to be about £34m. 14-Sep-2000 Cadbury Schweppes is considering plans to make acquisitions outside its core business areas of confectionery and beverages, and could spend up to £3bn. 27-Jul-2000 Cadbury Schweppes is planning to acquire the French chewing gum and candy business of Kraft Foods, and a deal is expected to be announced within weeks. 25-May-2000 Cadbury Schweppes is considering plans to bid for parts of Nabisco, the US tobacco and cookies group. 17-May-2000 Cadbury Schweppes is looking to spend up to £3bn on acquisitions, in order to expand its food and soft drinks operations. 17-Feb-2000 Cadbury Schweppes is cutting 600 jobs at its Birmingham chocolate business, as a scheme to find 360 voluntary redundancies was oversubscribed. 26-Nov-1999 Cadbury Schweppes is said to be interested in bidding for Warner-Lambert's confectionery business, which is expected to be sold off by the US drugs group after the completion of its current takeover battle. 13-Nov-1999 Cadbury Schweppes is to cut 360 jobs at three factories, including 263 in Bournville, 53 in Avon and 47 in Clwyd. 02-Oct-1999 Cadbury Schweppes has agreed the sale of its South African soft drinks business to Coca-Cola for £153m. 03-Sep-1999 Cadbury Schweppes is linking up with Carlyle Group to acquire Dr Pepper Bottling Company of Texas for £432m, in order to create the largest independent bottler in the US. 02-Sep-1999 Cadbury Schweppes is in negotiations to acquire Dr Pepper Bottling Company of Texas as part of a strategy to create a nationwide soft drinks bottling operation in the US. 07-Aug-1999 Cadbury Schweppes has completed the sale of its soft drinks operations in 155 countries to Coca-Cola for £443m, and other countries are expected to follow once regulatory approval is given. 31-Jul-1999 Cadbury Schweppes is in discussions to sell its South African beverages business to Coca-Cola. 05-Jul-1999 Cadbury Schweppes has renegotiated a deal to sell its non-US soft drinks operations to Coca-Cola due to problems with regulatory authorities, and it will now exclude most of western Europe. 25-May-1999 Cadbury Schweppes has had its plan to sell its non-US soft drinks business to Coca-Cola rejected by the Mexican competition authorities, which follows similar vetoes in Australia and Belgium. 01-May-1999 Cadbury Schweppes is buying the Hawaiian Punch tropical fruit drink from Procter & Gamble for £126m, and will combine it with its Dr Pepper and Seven-Up operation in the US. 16-Apr-1999 Cadbury Schweppes has reached agreement to exchange soft drinks brands in Australia with Coca-Cola, as part of a strategy to withdraw from soft drinks markets outside the US. 15-Apr-1999 Cadbury Schweppes is said to be planning to bid for Procter & Gamble's Hawaiian Punch fruit drink for about £125m. 27-Feb-1999 Cadbury is to cut up to 300 jobs in order to improve efficiency at its confectionery factory in Birmingham. 01-Feb-1999 Cadbury Schweppes has agreed to sell its non-US soft drinks businesses to Coca-Cola for £1.12bn, and the proceeds will be used to expand its confectionery operations around the world. 12-Dec-1998 Cadbury Schweppes has announced that its US soft drinks business Dr Pepper/Seven Up has agreed a new distribution deal with PepsciCo's bottling division. 08-Dec-1998 Unilever, Cadbury Schweppes and Kimberly Clark have formed a marketing consortium called Jigsaw that will mail a new magazine to 1m homes in order to increase loyalty to their brands. 05-Nov-1998 Cadbury Schweppes is acquiring Wedel, the leading Polish confectionery brand, from PepsiCo for £46m, while United Biscuits is in negotiations to buy the Wedel biscuit business. 08-Sep-1998 Cadbury Schweppes has renewed its German soft drinks distribution joint venture with Brau und Brunnen, and the two companies will build up their brands through increased investment. 27-Aug-1998 Cadbury Schweppes is looking to expand its confectionery and soft drinks businesses through acquisition, aiming to fill gaps in markets where it already has a presence. 06-Aug-1998 Cadbury Schweppes, in partnership with Carlyle Group, has acquired two independent bottling companies in the US for £433m, and the new joint venture will be called American Bottling Company. 07-May-1998 Cadbury Schweppes is planning to propose a share buy-back at its annual meeting in May in order to strengthen its balance sheet, and is keen to make acquisitions in the confectionery sector. 05-Mar-1998 Cadbury Schweppes has announced a £183m joint venture with the Carlyle Group to buy two independent soft drinks bottlers in the US mid-west, thereby improving the distribution of its Dr Pepper and Seven Up brands. 24-Feb-1998 Cadbury Schweppes is close to announcing the creation of a new US bottling company through the acquisition of Beverage America and Select Beverages, in an attempt to set up a distribution network for its Dr Pepper-Seven Up business. 21-Feb-1998 Cadbury Schweppes has secured a five-year extension to its contract with Coca-Cola Enterprises which will mean that its Dr Pepper-Seven Up soft drinks will continue to be bottled and distributed in the US by Coca-Cola until 2005. 15-Jan-1998 Cadbury Schweppes is said to be negotiating the acquisitions of Michigan-based Beverage America and Illinois-based Select Beverages in order to build up a soft drinks bottling operation in the US. 19-Dec-1997 Cadbury Schweppes is to cut 110 jobs in the US, mainly at the Dallas headquarters of its Dr Pepper/7-Up subsidiary, in order to improve the competitiveness of its carbonated soft drinks business. 05-Nov-1997 Cadbury Schweppes has lost a High Court action brought by Swiss chocolate manufacturers that accused it of "passing off" its Swiss Chalet chocolate bar as being of Swiss origin. 30-Oct-1997 Cadbury Schweppes is to acquire La Pie Qui Chante, the French sugar sweets maker, from Danone for undisclosed terms, a move which will make it the third largest confectionery company in France. 24-Oct-1997 Cadbury Schweppes may be forced to stop selling its soft drinks through McDonald's outlets in the US, as Coca-Cola is trying to become an exclusive supplier to the fast food outlets. 04-Jun-1997 Cadbury is facing the prospect of a strike by production workers at its Bournville chocolate plant, following changes to shift patterns. 08-May-1997 Cadbury Schweppes is prepared to spend up to £1bn on acquisitions, and believes there is more potential in confectionery than in soft drinks. 06-Mar-1997 Cadbury Schweppes has received European Commission approval for its exclusive licensing arrangements with Coca-Cola Enterprises, but will examine the issue again after seven years. 26-Feb-1997 Cadbury Schweppes has acquired Bim Bim, the Egypt-based chocolate and sugar confectionery business, for undisclosed terms. 13-Feb-1997 The European Commission is to further investigate the acquisition by Coca-Cola Enterprises of full control of its bottling joint venture with Cadbury Schweppes, a deal which gave Coca-Cola exclusive rights to make and sell Cadbury Schweppes soft drinks in the UK. 14-Sep-1996 Cadbury Schweppes has sold its 51% stake in Coca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages, its soft drinks production joint venture, to Coca-Cola Enterprises for about £700m. 05-Jun-1996 Cadbury Schweppes is to invest £18m in doubling chocolate production at its Beijing, China, joint venture factory. 28-May-1996 Cadbury Schweppes' Trebor Bassett subsidiary is acquiring Craven Keiller, the boiled sweets and popcorn company, from Portfolio Foods. 05-Apr-1996 Cadbury Schweppes is to sponsor Coronation Street, the TV soap opera, in a £10m deal. 27-Mar-1996 Cadbury Schweppes is planning a joint venture in France with San Benedetto, the Italian water and soft drinks concern. 07-Mar-1996 Cadbury Schweppes is to acquire Neilson Cadbury of Canada for £108m. 19-Dec-1995 Cadbury Schweppes has sold its information technology outsourcing business, ITNet, to management for £32.5m. 17-Nov-1995 The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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