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| DATE | MANUFACTURER | NOTABLE PRODUCTS | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1650 | Jobson, Cirque | Oxford | |
| 1652 | Dakins, John | London | |
| 1660 | Sury, M. | Oxford | |
| c1670 | Stubbe, Henry | Chocolata Royale / Ordinary Chocolata | London |
| 1729-1761 | Churchman, Walter | Patent / Common Standard / Superfine | Bristol |
| c1743 | Taylor, Josias | London | |
| 1759 | Wilson, John & Thomas | Thornhill | |
| 1761-1787 | Fry, Joseph & John Vaughan | Bristol | |
| 1765 | Berry, Mary & Thomas | Manchester | |
| c1767 | James, Hugh | London | |
| 1776 | Cowbell, Charles | Gro-Cocoa | Dublin |
| 1785-1848 | Tuke, Henry | Superior Rock Cocoa / British Cocoa / Rich Cocoa | York |
| c1785 | Dyer's | Bristol | |
| 1787-1805 | Fry, Anna & Son | Fine Crown / Patent Cocoa | Bristol |
| 1789 | White, George Bailey | Patent Cocoa | |
| 1790-1801 | Bourdillon | New-Invented Cocoa | London |
| c1791-1838 | Twinings | London | |
| 1794 | Garratt, Francis | Queen's Cocoa | London |
| 1800 | Dykes, T Dr | Buchan's Cocoa | London |
| 1801 | Church, Henry | Unadulterated Cocoa | London |
| 1802 | Hudson & Co | Iceland Moss Cocoa | London |
| 1803-1805 | Hunt, Henry | ||
| 1805-1822 | Fry & Hunt | Bristol | |
| 1810-1812 | Dykes & Denton | Iceland Moss / Broma | London |
| 1812 | Wilson, W | Sassafras Cocoa | London |
| 1812-1890 | Collier, James | Patent Chocolate Powder | London |
| 1815- | Strickland, Charles | Genuine Broma / Prepared Powder Chocolate | London |
| 1817-1908 | Taylor Brothers | Maravilla | London |
| c1817 | Stokes, F | Peck's Cocoa Paste | London |
| 1819-1930 | Dunn & Hewett | Vanilla Shilling Chocolate / Patent Lentilized Chocolate / Bromatine | London |
| 1820-1825 | Samuel Hickson & Co | Prepared Cocoa Paste / Pure Unmixed | London |
| 1822- | Hooper & Lambert | London | |
| 1822 | Garnett, J | Genuine Improved Cocoa Paste | London |
| 1822-1957 | Fry, JS & Sons | Best Nibs / Fine Crown / Cocoa Paste /Broma / Pearl, Rock, Flaked, Allopathic, Caracas, Flag and Malted Cocoa | Bristol |
| 1824-present | Cadbury | 21 varieties | Birmingham |
| 1826- | Stratton, JW | Homoeopathic Cocoa / Sir Hans Sloan's Sassafras Milk Chocolate, and others | London |
| 1826 | Graham, F | Sassafras Cocoa and Patent Cocoa | London |
| c.1829 | Marshall, John | London | |
| 1829-1851 | Nicol & Co | London | |
| 1831-1851 | Relfe, John | Peculiarly Prepared Homoeopathic Cocoa | London |
| 1837-1924 | Thorne, Henry & Co | Health Cocoa | Leeds |
| 1839-1925 | Epps, James & Co | Homoeopathic Cocoa / Cocoaine | London |
| 1843 | Fortnum & Mason | Improved Cocoa Paste | London |
| 1846 | Headland, William | Homoeopathic Cocoa | London |
| 1846-1852 | De La Motte, Dr | Sassafras Cocoa | London |
| 1848-1862 | Tuke & Casson | York | |
| 1848-1873 | Turner, H & Co | Dandelion / Iceland Moss / Pure Chocolate Powder | Manchester |
| 1850 | Cooper, WT | Dietetic Cocoa | London |
| 1850 | Capper & Grays | Dietetic Cocoa | London |
| 1850 | Graham & Hedley | Roll Cocoa / Genuine Soluble | Liverpool |
| 1850 | Tordoff, John & Sons | Bradford | |
| c1850 | Hawthorn & Co | Celebrated Soluble Cocoa | London |
| 1850-1880 | Phillips & Co | Homoeopathic Cocoa / Cocoa Essence | London |
| 1850-1876 | Leath & Ross | Homoeopathic Cocoa | London |
| 1851-1865 | Linsley, John | Leeds | |
| c1851 | Cassel, John | Celebrated Cocoa | London |
| 1851 | Moore & Buckley | Cocoa & Milk | Ranton Abbey |
| 1851-1858 | Paris Chocolate Company | Various | London |
| 1851-1865 | Handford & Davies | Stomachic Chocolate and others | London |
| 1851-1871 | Thompson & Capper | Homoeopathic Cocoa / Shilling Cocoa | Liverpool |
| 1851 | Gatti & Bolla | Genuine French Chocolate Powder | London |
| 1852 | King, Dr | Sarsaparilla Cocoa | |
| 1853 | Steel & Smith | Dandelion Cocoa Paste | Bath |
| 1853-1869 | Satterthwaite, William | Genuine Trinidad Cocoa | Manchester |
| c1854 | Peek Brothers & Co | Purified Soluble Chocolate | London |
| c1854 | Kemper, JH | Pure Cocoa | London |
| c1854 | Sparrow, Henry | Improved Dietetic Cocoa | London |
| c1854 | Steane, Joseph | Oxford | |
| c1854 | Tyler & Essex | Best Soluble Cocoa | London |
| c1854 | Barry, D & Co | Pulmonic Cocoa, Nerve Cocoa and others | London |
| 1855 | Darling, William | Manchester | |
| 1856-1860 | Stovin, Joseph | Bass Imperial Chocolate Powder | Northampton |
| 1860- | Schweitzer, H | Anti-dyspeptic Cocoa / Cocoatina | Brighton |
| 1860- | Farmer, James & Co | Iceland Moss Cocoa | London |
| 1861 | EP Shaw | Homoeopathic Cocoa | Wakefield |
| 1862- | Rowntree | Prize Medal Rock Cocoa | York |
| 1862- | Dykes, Barry & Co | London | |
| 1863-1893 | Birks, JS & TR | Homoeopathic Cocoa | Sheffield |
| 1864 | Coning, T & Sons | York | |
| 1866-1869 | Randall, John | Murly Concentrated Dandelion Cocoa | Torquay |
| 1868 | Butcher, William & Co | Homoeopathic Cocoa | Blackheath |
| 1873-1901 | Compagnie Francaise | Excel Cocoa | London |
| 1876-1881 | Hooker, J | Cream-Milk & Cocoa | Shardlow |
| 1880 | Smith, T & H | Cacaolactine | Edinburgh |
| 1880 | Moir, John & Son | Cocoa & Milk | Aberdeen |
| 1880-1886 | Baron Liebig's Cocoa Depot | Leguminous Cocoa Powder | London |
| c1880-1887 | Allen, Frederick & Sons | London | |
| 1881 | White Lion Cocoa Company | Pure Extract of Cocoa | London |
| 1881-1885 | Tulloch, William & Son | Pure Dutch Cocoa | London |
| 1883- | Caleys | Norwich | |
| 1885- | Savory & Moore | Peptonised Milk & Cocoa / Van Steen's | London |
| 1886-1936 | Rothwell, John | Welco | Golborne |
| 1888 | Burgess, E | London | |
| 1888-1902 | London Productive Society | Nutritional Cocoa / Laproso Cocoa | Thames Ditton |
| 1889-1911 | Bovril | Bovril Cocoa / Kudos Cocoa Essence | London |
| 1889 | Caffyns | Malto-Carnis | |
| 1889-1896 | Root & Co | Cuca Cocoa | London |
| 1890 | Shuttleworth, WS & Co | London | |
| 1891-1937 | Blind Tea Agency | Braille Cocoa | |
| 1894 | Scott & Scott | Cocoana | Birmingham |
| 1894 | United Tea Supply Agency | Horne's Digestive Cocoa | London |
| 1895 | Wood, Chapman & Co | Coral Cocoa | London |
| c.1895-1914 | Faulder, Henry & Co | Golden Cup Cocoa | Stockport |
| 1895-1918 | Lipton | Oriental Chocolate Powder | London |
| 1895-1922 | Dr Tibbles | Vi-Cocoa | Watford |
| 1895 | Gaskin's Colonial Cocoa | Perfect Cocoa | |
| 1891 | Keiller, James & Son | Dundee | |
| 1897 | Abram Lyle & Sons | Lyle's Cocoa | London |
| 1897-1905 | Nelson & Co | Lincolnshire? | |
| 1898-1900 | Velcot Cocoa Company | Elland | |
| 1901-1924 | Mazawattee Tea Co | Latariba Cocoa / Dee & Ess Cocoa Essence | London |
| 1902 | English & Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society | Lutona | Luton |
| 1902 | Clarke Nicholls & Coombs | Clarnico Cocoa | London |
| 1904-1914 | Cereal Food Company | Blakey's Malted Cocoa Essence | Lincoln |
| 1904-1922 | Pure Cocoa Company | London | |
| 1904 | Prideaux's Pure Casein | Casumen and Life Food Cocoa | Motcombe |
| 1904-1908 | Peek Frean | Tilia Cocoa | |
| 1905 | Payne, George & Co | Civic Cocoa | London |
| 1906 | Walker & Thomas | Royal Cocoa | London |
| 1908 | Doctor's Digestive Cocoa Company | London | |
| 1909-1926 | Shaw Brothers | Nottinghamshire? | |
| 1909-present | Sainsbury, J | ||
| 1911- | Sandow, Eugen | Health & Strength Cocoa | London |
| 1911-1926 | Savoy Confectioners Co | Dublin | |
| 1911 | Tetley, Joseph & Co | London | |
| 1912-1950 | Blakey's Food Company | Blakey's Malted Cocoa Essence | Lincoln |
| 1913-present | Ovaltine | King's Langley | |
| 1914 | Thew, Hooker & Gilbey | Bivouac Cocoa | Buckingham |
| 1914 | International Plasmon | Plasmon Oat-Cocoa | |
| 1916 | Colemans Tonic | Cocoa Cubes | Norwich |
| until-1918 | Horniman, WH & FJ & Co | Pure Cocoa | |
| 1918 | Lyons, J & Co | Horniman's Cocoa | London |
| 1919 | Victor's Cocoa Company | Liverpool | |
| 1919 | Fullers Cakes | Fullers Drinking Chocolate | Hammersmith |
| 1923 | Tynedale Pure Cocoa | Jesmond | |
| 1929-present | Horlicks | Chocolate Flavoured Malted Drink | Slough |
| 1930 | Dr Thompsons | Malted Slippery Elm Cocoa | |
| 1931 | Oxo Company | Oxade Cocoa | |
| 1938-1946 | Nobby's Products | Barlova | Hyde |
| 1941 | Brooke Bond | Dividend Cocoa | |
| 1942-1944 | Jenner's Foods | Jenner's Malted | Manchester |
