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Chocolate Nestle is to create at least 100 jobs at a new chocolate co-packing facility in York. 16-Oct-2008 Ummah Foods is looking to sell a £1m stake in its halal chocolate bar business, in order to fund its expansion into upmarket shops. 10-Jun-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 House of Dorchester has submitted plans to West Dorset District Council for a 26,000 sq ft extension to its chocolate factory in Poundbury. 27-Mar-2007 Edward Billington & Son has sold Classic Couverture, the Speke-based chocolate manufacturer with 110 staff, to Archer Daniels Midland Company of the US for £10m. 12-Sep-2006 Elizabeth Shaw has confirmed plans to close its Greenbank factory in Bristol in July, with the loss of 145 jobs, in order to outsource chocolate manufacture to two factories in the West Midlands. 26-Jan-2006 Cadbury Schweppes is planning to invest £40m in the expansion of its Bournville chocolate confectionery factory in Birmingham by autumn 2006. 10-May-2005 Nestle Rowntree is to expand chocolate crumb production at its factory in Girvan, Scotland, with the creation of an unspecified number of jobs, but 57 jobs will be lost with the closure of its Mallow factory in Ireland. 22-Nov-2004 Nestle is to shed 270 jobs at its chocolate confectionery factory in Halifax over the next two years. 30-Mar-2004 Glisten has acquired Sunya, the chocolate confectionery manufacturer, from Renshaw Scott for £0.8m, and production will transfer to its Blackburn factory. 07-Oct-2003 Nestle is planning to transfer production of white chocolate products to York with the creation of 100 jobs, but 159 managerial and technical support jobs will be lost in Hayes. 15-Sep-2003 Thorntons is seeking permission to build a new distribution centre at its chocolate factory in Somercotes, which could lead to the creation of 260 jobs over the next two years. 07-Aug-2003 ChocExpress is creating 40 new jobs at its chocolate delivery business in Royston. 05-Mar-2003 Kallo Foods is to acquire the Whole Earth and Gusto herbal soft drink brands from Whole Earth Foods, and Whole Earth will change its name to Green & Black's and focus on organic chocolate and ice cream. 06-Jan-2003 Kraft Foods is to shed 47 of the 450 jobs at its Terry's chocolate factory in York this month. 13-Feb-2002 Nestle is planning to invest £4m at its York factory to increase production of the KitKat chocolate snack. 07-Nov-2001 Gilchris is seeking permission for a £4m expansion at its chocolate products factory in Fakenham, which would create 30 jobs. 16-Mar-2001 Classic Couverture, the Speke-based chocolate manufacturer with 50 employees, has been acquired by Billington for undisclosed terms. 15-Nov-2000 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 Kerry has made a takeover approach for Bush Boake Allen, the US food ingredients company, and has also announced the acquisition of Harald-Industria e Comercio de Alimentos of Brazil and a US chocolate coating company owned by York Dragee. 31-Aug-2000 Leaf UK has announced the sale of the Elizabeth Shaw and Famous Names chocolate brands to a management team operating under the name of Packbond Holdings. 31-Mar-2000 Unigate is to close its St Ivel chocolate desserts factory in Chichester next year with the loss of 182 jobs, as part of a £79m restructuring programme that will also involve the disposal of its French desserts operation. 29-Mar-2000 Thorntons, the chocolate manufacturer and retailer, is planning to spin off its internet, mail order, and interactive TV operations. 08-Mar-2000 Lovells, the Newport-based chocolate confectionery company, has been sold by NFF to a local businessman for £0.9m. 08-Jan-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 East Midlands Development Agency is supporting plans from OCG Cacao of France to open a £8.5m chocolate factory in Worksop next year, with the creation of 50 jobs. 17-Nov-1999 Peel & Bowler, the Newark-based manufacturer of chocolate products, has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of 30 jobs. 03-Jun-1999 Thorntons has brought forward its plans to set up a chocolate manufacturing and storage site near Alfreton, Derbyshire, to Easter 1999, in order to keep up with sales growth. 17-Jul-1998 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 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 has acquired Bim Bim, the Egypt-based chocolate and sugar confectionery business, for undisclosed terms. 13-Feb-1997 Thorntons, the chocolate company, is selling its 21 French shops to Jeff de Bruges. 12-Dec-1996 Thorntons, the chocolate maker and retailer, is closing its Flixborough factory and transferring production to Belper, while at the same time it has sold Gartner Pralines, its Belgian subsidiary, to Pauwels. 05-Jun-1996 Cadbury Schweppes is to invest £18m in doubling chocolate production at its Beijing, China, joint venture factory. 28-May-1996 The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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