Hershey's banning Cadbury imports to USA!

[DiO'Bolic]

Did you write or copy/paste the part that's in bold, DiO?

I copy and pasted it, and bolded it to denote the portions noted were from the link to the Time article I had listed below.

 

[blunthead]

I copy and pasted it, and bolded it to denote the portions noted were from the link to the Time article I had listed below.

OIC. I agree that people must protect their property, but to me for Hershey it seems like a nasty, corporate, business-as-usual move certain to do more damage to their image than good.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

OIC. I agree that people must protect their property, but to me for Hershey it seems like a nasty, corporate, business-as-usual move certain to do more damage to their image than good.

Oh they’re not so bad.

Milton Hershey School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Those rights were bought by Hershey for a reason, not out of the goodness of their heart as a donation to a UK business that couldn’t keep up with its competitors. Again, Cadbury could always buy back the rights to sell their product in the US if they felt it would be a profitable endeavor.

 

[blunthead]

Oh they’re not so bad.

Milton Hershey School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Those rights were bought by Hershey for a reason, not out of the goodness of their heart as a donation to a UK business that couldn’t keep up with its competitors. Again, Cadbury could always buy back the rights to sell their product in the US if they felt it would be a profitable endeavor.

I can't see how this isn't going to be bad for Hershey, but maybe I define "good business" naively.

 

[staropeace]

LOL. Go for it. I don't believe the ban extends to Canada.

Anyway, Cadbury UK could always buy back the rights from Hershey to sell their product in the US.

I think we have our Cadbury made here. Now I want a cup of Cadbury hot chocolate and a box of smarties.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I think we have our Cadbury made here. Now I want a cup of Cadbury hot chocolate and a box of smarties.

Someday you should try our Wilbur Buds. I never pass through Lititz without purchasing some, although I would say the same for their chocolate covered almonds.

Home - Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate

 

[fushingfeef]

Oh well, I guess y'all are just going to have to come get some from my place then...

Wait, that doesn't sound quite right...

 

[FlakeNoir]

Wait, that doesn't sound quite right...

 

[Lily Sawyer]

Corporate greed. Bastards.

 

[Neesy]

Hershey is relatively local... Hershey Park, Hershey’s Chocolate World, Hershey Park Stadium, Hershey Gardens, Adult World. Gotta have some local pride.

Ah - I see! We had a Hershey's up here, too in a place called Perth, Ontario (I think?) - it's ringing a bell anyway, but the chocolate factory shut down.

 

[Neesy]

Maybe Hershey's is afraid we'll only want chocolate from Britain. I don't think Hershey's is being fair - especially since they closed plants in Smith's Falls and Oakdale and replaced them with plants in Mexico and Brazil. If we're eating chocolate (imported? would it be considered imported?) from Mexico, we should be able to get it from Britain too.

I havn't been too crazy about Hershey's chocolate since they replaced cocoa butter with vegetable oil. Are the products made in Britain still made with cocoa butter?

That's it! Smith's Falls - not Perth, Ontario - thanks no bounce no play

 

[The Nameless]

I think we have our Cadbury made here. Now I want a cup of Cadbury hot chocolate and a box of smarties.

Smarties are made by nestle aren't they? Just like Hershey chocolate, I always felt nestle was too rich. Cadbury (at least the UK version) and most mars chocolate (mars, galaxy, malteasers etc) are lighter and taste much better to me. However none can come close to llindt chocolate from Switzerland. That stuff is sublime.

It would piss me off if I was a fan of an import and someone just decided to ban it (thinking about mountain dew which went away for about 15 years and only came back a few years ago). That said, my favourite thing to come out of America has just never been offered here in England - I'd love so much to be able to pick up some salt water taffy in my local shops.

 

[Neesy]

From Business Insider:

Hershey's has blocked British-made Cadbury chocolate from entering the US.

The chocolate company struck up a deal with Let's Buy British Imports to stop imports of Cadbury products made overseas, reports Tatiana Schlossberg at The New York Times.

The company will also stop importing British Kit Kat bars, Toffee Crisps, and Yorkie chocolate bars.

Fans of chocolate manufactured in Britain say it tastes better than American-made chocolate.

A Hershey's representative told The New York Times that the company has the rights to manufacture Cadbury chocolate in America using different recipes, and that importing British chocolate is an infringement.

The New York Times broke down the major differences between the kinds of chocolates.

"Chocolate in Britain has a higher fat content; the first ingredient listed on a British Cadbury’s Dairy Milk (plain milk chocolate) is milk," Schlossberg writes. "In an American-made Cadbury’s bar, the first ingredient is sugar."

The American version also contains preservatives.

Furious Cadbury fans have started the hashtag #boycotthershey.

Andrew Baker at The Telegraph speculated that Hershey's is afraid of Cadbury chocolate.

"It will seem more likely to anyone who has ever tasted Hershey's own-brand products, and its approximations of Cadbury's, that they are instead preventing consumers from buying products which taste much better than Hershey's own," Baker writes.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/hersheys-bans-british-chocolate-2015-1#ixzz3Q5aKZjGk

Have Jillian and Addie done a taste test recently to compare different brands of chocolate Bob? If not - that might be a good topic to bring up

 

[Lepplady]

This reminds me of the Twinkie debacle.
The British chocolate will be back, probably in pertnership with American Hershey's chocolates. It's just a great big marketing scheme.

 

[Neesy]

This reminds me of the Twinkie debacle.
The British chocolate will be back, probably in pertnership with American Hershey's chocolates. It's just a great big marketing scheme.

Spoiler: Little Debbie?

Not to get off the topic of chocolate but are these things similar to Twinkies?

 

[blunthead]

This reminds me of the Twinkie debacle.
The British chocolate will be back, probably in partnership with American Hershey's chocolates. It's just a great big marketing scheme.

It's obnoxious, period. Hershey's obviously figures its fans have no principles and/or are so addicted to chocolate of any brand or quality that they'll bow to whatever discomfort imposed on them for fear of having no product to choose from. It's a room-full-of-lawyers' decision.

 

[Neesy]

Got this around Christmas time for Andy from a story that sells British imported foods.

Ingredients do show cocoa butter as an ingredient

 

[Mr Nobody]

Oh they’re not so bad.

Milton Hershey School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Those rights were bought by Hershey for a reason, not out of the goodness of their heart as a donation to a UK business that couldn’t keep up with its competitors. Again, Cadbury could always buy back the rights to sell their product in the US if they felt it would be a profitable endeavor.

Hang on a bit, old chum.
First, Cadbury's was the market leader in the UK (and elsewhere) and was more than holding its own. Hershey didn't even have a presence over here, so it was hardly the case that it couldn't keep up with competitors either here or abroad.
Second, what happened was that Kraft Foods (now Mondelez) launched a hostile takeover after the board of directors and shareholders played the 'profits are down' trick one too many times (in reality, what they always meant by that was 'consumers: prepare for smaller bars at the same, or even a higher, price', because they always managed to attract new investors; that tends not to happen if the continual profit warnings are real ).
Whatever happened to the US side of things, rights, etc after that happened on Kraft's watch, and presumably they thought they were being ever so sneaky. In any case, it was only after the takeover (and whatever deals followed) that we began seeing Hershey's here, certainly as a mainstream product.

In any case, Cadbury's is just a trademark now. The processes have already been altered, operations bunted around or closed down (with production presumably moving Stateside).
The shareholders managed to get a price they were happy enough with in the end, and over here that's all business "leaders" really care about - give 'em the money and they'll gladly run, saying 'Sod you all!' as they go (most of them would sell their mothers for tuppence).
Comes from having a bunch of ar$eholes in charge of things who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

 

[staropeace]

Got this around Christmas time for Andy from a story that sells British imported foods.

Ingredients do show cocoa butter as an ingredient

They are lovely. Becky likes them a lot. Do you like Cadbury fingers, Neesy?

 

[Lily Sawyer]

In any case, Cadbury's is just a trademark now. The processes have already been altered, operations bunted around or closed down (with production presumably moving Stateside).
The shareholders managed to get a price they were happy enough with in the end, and over here that's all business "leaders" really care about - give 'em the money and they'll gladly run, saying 'Sod you all!' as they go (most of them would sell their mothers for tuppence).
Comes from having a bunch of ar$eholes in charge of things who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

You got that right. The same thing happened to Callard & Bowser (purveyors of the finest butterscotch and treacle candies ever), and Suchard chocolate, which got swallowed by Nestle. They don't make the same recipe for their milk chocolate, and Milka doesn't come close to the Suchard Deluxe I used to covet.