Seems to be alot of controversy sounding cadbury. First the removal of confectionery. The addition of palm oil into there chocolate and now production has moved over seas with new recipes. Cant be to good for sales.
I looked up the chinese website mentioned in a few of those articles, and found a tin of NZ formula (one of many) for $48! I would pay that, to get safe food for my baby but what a crippling expense for chinese parents.
r-mvz,
Feb 15, 8:15pm
can't you see that if we boycott cadburys, the company will have an excuse to close down in NZ... thats what they are after
bellus_sybarite,
Feb 15, 8:23pm
Eventually it will probably happen.
ajk,
Feb 15, 10:10pm
gotta feel sorry for the cadbury workers in Nz and how its affecting them. also for the telecom and voda phone centres, all off shore now. last company to leave our fair and reasonably paid shores please turn out the lights.
annie.nz,
Feb 16, 5:57am
I saw a bit in the paper a couple of days ago about Cadbury announcing they were going to increase the amount of cocoa butter in their chocolate - I might wait a bit and try some again, just to see.
The old recipe Cadbury's was easily better than anything else available (at least according to me). Lindt comes close but not quite as good, and Valhrona is better but not by much and you need a second mortgage to buy it. I'm not keen on other European chocolate, bit dishwatery I think. And Whittaker's isn't subtle.
Here's hoping... .
uli,
Feb 16, 7:16am
According to their own website its only the milk chocolate so far. Everything else will still be palm oil for some time to come: http://www.cadbury.co.nz/About-Cadbury/Frequently-Asked-Ques tions. aspx
uli,
Mar 23, 7:42am
From today, Australian-made Cadbury Moro bars will start appearing on New Zealand shelves... .
Its decisions like that, that I'm no longer a loyal Cadbury customer, 35 years of dedication have gone. Wonder how many more customers they have lost. I'll stick to Whittakers at least they're still made in NZ and taste great.
fruitluva2,
Mar 23, 7:40pm
True about the workers
uli,
Mar 23, 7:47pm
TM message board is being read by journalists: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article. cfm? c_id=1&obj ectid=10633739
So check in here if you want to protest: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages. asp x? id=223756
uli,
Apr 2, 6:54pm
Since August 17 2009 confectionery giant Cadbury have gone palm oil-free from all of their blocks of dairy milk chocolate. Going from 21% of cocoa solids (with 5% of vegetable fat or palm oil) back to their original recipe of 26% cocoa solids.
But Fair Go have seen packets of other flavoured dairy milk chocolate that have the reduced cocoa content, topped up with vegetable fat on their ingredients list. Cadbury say it's a packaging issue and that although they changed the recipe and removed the palm oil, they didn't print new packs that reflected the change. They say it was an environmental decision not to throw out the cardboard packaging.
But some popular flavours like Caramello, Black Forest, Rocky Road and Old Gold Peppermint will continue to use palm oil. It's needed as a 'filling and binding' agent.
New packs with the correct cocoa levels are due to hit retail shelves in the next few weeks.
http://tvnz.co.nz/fair-go/sweet-surrender-3519728
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