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Family trust: How to break the founder's curse in your business

Cadbury chocolate. Cadbury is celebrating 200 years in business. [iStockphoto]

Sometime in 1824, John Cadbury, started a small grocery shop in Birmingham, United Kingdom, selling cocoa and drinking chocolate.

In 1831, he bought a warehouse and started manufacturing with the help of his sons - George and Richard Cadbury.

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