Angus Thirlwell is the co-founder and CEO of Hotel Chocolat, he joins Proactive London's Katie Pilbeam to talk about his family's history in chocolate, the Caribbean connection and their business expansion plans.
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 127 stores in the UK and 31 in Japan.
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.