Britain’s King Edward I bought 450 ... JS Fry & Sons invented chocolate paste, it produced the first chocolate hollow Easter egg in 1873 – and the tradition is still going 142 years later.

And Cadbury, another Quaker-founded company, created the first modern chocolate Easter egg. These great businesses were built on Christian values of fairness. They built kind and fair ...

When chocolate arrived in Britain in the 17th century ... Thirty years later, in 1873, Fry’s developed the first chocolate Easter egg as a luxury treat, merging the two gift-giving traditions.

The first chocolate Easter Egg created in Britain is believed to have been made by JS Fry & Sons in Bristol in 1873. This year, Good Friday falls on April 18, with Easter Sunday on April 20 and ...

During the Easter period, these were the prices of Cadbury Mini Eggs at major British supermarkets: First introduced ... supermarket for chocolate eggs in the UK. Britain's third largest ...