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Hotel Chocolat is a vertically integrated chocolatier, manufacturing and retailing premium chocolate and chocolate-related products direct to customers. The Group sells its products online and through a network of 84 stores in the UK and abroad, and in the year ended 28 June 2015 had an audited revenue and EBITDA of £81.1 million and £7.9 million respectively. The business was founded in 1993 by Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris and has traded under the Hotel Chocolat brand since 2003.
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Who will be the next Next? Here our small-cap guru Zak looks at a couple of candidates
Shares in Hotel Chocolat rose today as the company reported growth in first half earnings and revenues
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