Cadbury Dairy Milk - Production

Production

Many of the newer Dairy Milk varieties are now manufactured in the Republic of Ireland, France and Poland. Aficionados complain that the product no longer tastes as good and has lost its creamy texture. Dairy Milk itself is also manufactured in France and these products are sold in the UK. Several reformulated versions are sold in the United States as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not allow products that replace cocoa butter with vegetable fat to be called chocolate.

In Australia, Cadbury Dairy Milk was reformulated in 2006 and again in 2009, with the addition of palm oil as a replacement for some cocoa butter. This occurred in conjunction with a weight reduction of the standard block from 250g to 200g. There has been some outcry over the reduction in block size while the price stayed the same, although Cadbury states that the wholesale cost per gram should be the same and the retailers may not have adjusted their prices. In August 2009, Cadbury announced it would return to a Cocoa Butter only formula due to a poor response from consumers.

In September 2012 smaller bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk started to appear on British shelves. The standard countline shrank from 49g to 45g whilst appearing in a newly moulded shape. Further, the 400g blocks shrank down to 360g.

Dairy Milk is sold in the United States under the Cadbury label, but it is manufactured by The Hershey Company in Pennsylvania.