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first Food Drink to be locally manufactured in the country. Full
local manufacture of BOURNVITA commenced in 1965.
The origins of Cadbury Nigeria Plc stretch back to the 1950s
when the business was founded as an operation to source
cocoa beans from Nigeria and as a precursor to enable the
Company's founders to prospect for opportunities to serve
the local consumer market with world famous Cadbury
branded products.
In the early 1960s, an initial packing operation was
established to re-pack imported bulk products. This packing
operation grew rapidly into a fully-fledged manufacturing
operation and resulted in the incorporation of Cadbury
Nigeria Limited in January 1965. In 1976, the Company
became a publicly listed company with shares traded locally
on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
Introduced in 1960, Cadbury BOURNVITA, (the Company's
flagship brand, was initially imported and repacked at its
factory, located in Agidingbi, Ikeja.Cadbury BOURNVITA
consolidated the Food Drinks market in Nigeria and was the
BOURNVITA was re-launched in a world class,
environmentally-friendly polypropylene jar in 2011 and
remains a market leader in the Food Drinks category today.
Following incorporation, the Company developed other
product categories most notable of which was Candy.
TOMTOM the big black and white sweet for soothing relief
was introduced in 1970 and has sustained a market
leadership position for over 40 years. Other brands of note is
TREBOR BUTTERMINT. In 2012, the Company expanded its
product categories when it launched TANG, the global leader
in powdered beverages, into the Nigerian market.
Cadbury Nigeria Plc has a 99.66% owned subsidiary located
in Ondo State that provides all the cocoa powder required for
the manufacturing of Cadbury BOURNVITA. Stanmark Cocoa
Processing Company Limited From its initial staff strength of
200 people in 1965, Cadbury Nigeria Plc currently employs
more than 1,000 colleagues who have chosen to build their
careers with the Company
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Cadbury Nigeria Plc is owned 74.99% by Cadbury Schweppes
Overseas Limited, which is itself a wholly owned subsidiary of
Mondelçz International. The remaining 24.01% equity
ownership of the Company is held by a diverse group of
indigenous individual and institutional shareholders.
crude oil, 165 million cubic feet of
natural gas and 4,000 barrels of LPG.
Chevron Nigeria Limited operates and
holds a 40 percent interest in 13
concessions under a joint-venture
arrangement with the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC).
honors and award for exemplary service
to humanity and for support for the
host communities. In 2003, CNL won
the U.S. State Department's Award for
Corporate Excellence.
The Nigerian Conservation Foundation
honored CNL in 2002 with its Award for
Environmental Excellence and again in
2010 with its Environmental
Stewardship Award. In 2011, CNL was
awarded the Best Company in Human
Capital Development prize by the
Industrial Training Fund.
Chevron began doing business in
Nigeria in 1913, when Texaco®
products were first marketed in the
country. Following the Nigerian
Indigenization Decree of 1978, which
was designed to raise the level of
Nigerian participation in business, Besides the jobs and capital investments
Chevron is the third-largest oil producer Chevron divested 40 percent of its created by Chevron's large day-to-day
in Nigeria and one of its largest shareholdings to the Nigerian public operations, major economic benefits
investors, spending more than $3 while retaining 60 percent equity in for the community are expected from
billion annually. Chevron Oil Nigeria PLC. the West African Gas Pipeline, the
Escravos gas-to-liquids project, the
Chevron Nigeria Limited operates In 1996, the company built a 103,000- Escravos Gas Plant 3A and related
under a joint-venture arrangement with barrel state-of-the-art storage terminal projects.
the Nigerian National Petroleum and loading facility in Apapa.
Corporation and has assets on land,
CNL started a partnership with the
swamp and near-offshore concessions Nigeria is one of three African countries Lagos Business School to develop local
covering approximately 2.2 million participating in the Arrive Alive contractors who can better fulfill the
acres (8,900 sq km) in the Niger Delta program pioneered by Chevron. The needs of the oil industry. CNL also has
region. Chevron has extensive interests program is making significant strides invested in instructing Nigerian college
in deepwater Nigeria. toward eliminating traffic deaths and students in the use of computer-aided
In 2012, Chevron's net daily production
in Nigeria averaged 238,000 barrels of
injuries in Chevron's host community.
Chevron Nigeria has received various
design.
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