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Cadbury Joins War on Obesity with Hunt for Low-Fat Chocolate.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2004
By Brian O'Connor, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 19--Cadbury Schweppes is trying to make a low-fat chocolate as the war on obesity continues. But the task is very tricky and such a product has yet to be made successfully, let alone put on sale.
The group is already selling low-sugar chocolate in France and may extend this to Britain.
But chairman John Sunderland insists: "It is far more important to help people toward a healthy lifestyle and a healthy diet."
Cadbury's profits slimmed down for 2003 after hefty goodwill charges and costs of integrating its biggest ever acquisition -- Adams chewing gum.
The pretax surplus fell from UKpound 830 million to UKpound 564 million. But underlying...
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