Chocolate maker

Cadbury is, after all, the last big opportunity for either chocolate maker to do a transformational deal.

Cadbury, a venerable chocolate-maker, is just the latest household name to be swallowed by foreigners after a hostile takeover bid.

The emotions roused by the fight for the chocolate-maker go far beyond the business specifics, however.

When Kraft took over Britain's Cadbury earlier this year, the British press fumed about the loss of a much-loved chocolate-maker.

Mr Peltz might also campaign for a revival of talks with Hershey, America's biggest chocolate-maker.

At Mast Brothers Chocolate, an artisan chocolate-maker with one small factory in Brooklyn, N. Y. , the beans are roasted on site.

Tata, which has a philanthropic heritage reminiscent of Cadbury, the Birmingham chocolate maker, fits the bill nicely, in their view.

In 1849, English chocolate maker Joseph Storrs Fry produced what was arguably the world's first eating chocolate.

Only Patricia Reeb knows why she married Robert, a third-generation French chocolate maker.

In 1828, Dutch chocolate maker Conrad J. van Houten patented an inexpensive method for pressing the fat from roasted cacao beans.

and Italy's Ferrero chocolate maker.

The Hershey Company, for example, is North America's largest chocolate maker with $5bn in revenues.