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J. S. Fry & Sons produced what is often considered the first solid chocolate bar in 1847. The bar was called Chocolat Delicieux a Manger and was moulded at the Fry's chocolate factory in Bristol.
Fry's Chocolate Cream, launched in 1866, is widely regarded as the first mass-produced chocolate candy bar. It grew out of Fry's earlier 1847 eating chocolate bar and remained the company's most famous product.
J. S. Fry & Sons merged with Cadbury's chocolate in 1919 to form the British Cocoa and Chocolate Company. At the time of the merger, the Fry family held 45.44 percent of the ordinary shares plus the chairmanship and four board seats.
Cadbury announced in October 2007 that the Somerdale factory near Bristol would close by 2010, with production moving to Poland to reduce costs. After Kraft Foods completed its takeover of Cadbury in February 2010, the closure was controversially confirmed despite Kraft having agreed during the takeover to keep the site open, resulting in a House of Commons Select Committee investigation.
Joseph Fry, a Quaker born in 1728, started making chocolate around 1759. In 1761 he and John Vaughan purchased a shop and patent from apothecary Walter Churchman, founding what would eventually be renamed J. S. Fry & Sons in 1822.
The Five Boys design is a sequence of facial expressions, labelled Desperation, Pacification, Expectation, Acclamation, and Realization, used in Fry's Chocolate advertising. The boy in the images was Lindsay Poulton, who recalled in his eighties that his father induced real tears for the first photograph by wrapping an ammonia-soaked cloth around his neck. An original enamel sign bearing the design was valued at between one thousand and fifteen hundred pounds on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow in April 2020.