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Their products are consumed by millions and available from supermarket shelves, Ye Olde Sweet Shoppe, and in vending machines the world over. But despite its popularity, throughout history the confectionary industry has sometimes been the subject of criticism - from specific business actions, to being blamed for mass obesity. Interestingly, the massive confectionary industry we know today had surprisingly humble beginnings and it seems that the pioneering spirit, ethical reasoning, and the inspirational business awareness of those who founde
the three biggest names in chocolate is all to forgotten.

Heinrich Nestle was born in Germany in 1814. After growing up in a huge family of fourteen children, he bucked the trend of going into the glazier business of his father and grandfather before him, and instead concentrated his efforts on pharmaceutics, taking up an apprenticeship at a local pharmacy for four years in his mid-teens. It was at this time that he moved to Vevey in Switzerland and changed his name to Henri Nestle, and soon developed his original product. By combining flour, malt, sugar and cows milk he invented the first substitute for mothers milk (inspired by the young deaths of half of his siblings) which, by the 1970s, was selling as far a field as North America. In 1875 he retired and sold his business choosing to then concentrate on offering small loans to locals in Glion. The company did not adopt chocolate as another product until the 1920s.

Interestingly, John Cadbury in the UK began to find his feet at a similar time. Born in 1801 and coming from a Quaker background, Cadbury couldn't study at university nor join the army and so also started an apprenticeship. After spending some time dealing tea in Leeds he moved back to his hometown, Birmingham, and opened a small grocery store and by 1831 he had enough money to switch his focus to establishing his own cocoa/drinking chocolate factory. Like Nestl้'s reasoning for the invention of baby formula, Cadbury chose to focus his efforts on chocolate as a viable alternative to what he considered the major reason for the social ills of the country, alcohol. Today, the district around Bourneville remains dry in honour of Cadbury's opposition to alcohol.

Franklin Clarence Mars introduction to the manufacture of chocolate came when he was a child in Minnesota in the late 1800s. Whilst suffering from Polio, his mother taught him to hand dip chocolate, and by the time he was 19, his entrepreneurial spirit and love of candy inspired him to sell molasses chips in the local neighbourhood. By 1910, Mars was selling confectionary wholesale and in 1920 founded the Mar-O-Bar Co. which released the Milky Way. The Milky Way (incidentally was his son, Forrest's idea) quickly became the best-selling chocolate bar in the US, and they moved again to Chicago in 1929. Here they developed the Snickers and M&Ms as his son took the helm. Mars moved into a ranch estate with a horse racing track and barns, and lived out his house until 1950.

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