I found out this week that Hershey have been able to block the sale of Cadbury products in US by law. This has happened recenrly when I found out I could not buy Cadbury's drinking Chocolate anymore. How is it possible that an American Company can block another American owned company from selling its products in competition and create a potential chocolate monopoly. Surely this is contrary to the American business ethic of free competition. This has happened since Kraft Foods bought Cadbury and Hershey lost out. It seems like sour grapes by Hershey to me. Can anyone shed light on this please?
Hershey has the license from Cadbury to produce the Cadbury products in the US so importing Cadbury products made in the UK is a violation of that license agreement. You can still buy Cadbury products produced by Hershey.
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