Milk Tray

Milk Tray
Product typeConfectionery
Chocolate
OwnerCadbury
CountryUnited Kingdom
Introduced1915
Related brandsList of Cadbury products
MarketsWorld

Milk Tray is a brand of boxed chocolates currently manufactured by Cadbury. Introduced by Cadbury UK in 1915, it is one of the longest running brands in the confectioner's portfolio. Milk Tray is sold in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, New York City, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

The name 'Tray' derived from the way in which the original assortment was delivered to the shops. Originally Milk Tray was packed in five and a half pound boxes, arranged on trays from which it was sold loose to customers.

The pack design has been regularly updated and the assortment itself has changed in line with consumer preferences, and today it is still one of the most popular boxes of chocolates in the UK selling over 8 million boxes per annum.[1]

From 1968 to 2003, and since 2016, the chocolate is advertised on television by the 'Milk Tray Man', a tough James Bond–style figure who undertakes daunting 'raids' to surreptitiously deliver a box of Milk Tray chocolates to a lady.[2][3] The original tagline was And all because the lady loves Milk Tray.[2] A YouGov poll saw them ranked the 16th most famous confectionery in the UK.[4]

  1. ^ "Cadbury's Milk Tray Under attack from British Press". Kennedy's Confection. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b "As Cadbury's Milk Tray Man returns, which other TV ad characters are ripe for a makeover?". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Milk Tray man to swing back into action for new Cadbury campaign". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  4. ^ "The most famous confectionaries in the UK". YouGov. Retrieved 21 August 2019.