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Hotel Chocolat announces tilt at US market in partnership with newly-floated Hut Group as it reveals online sales helped offset store closures Hotel Chocolat said that sales rose 3% to £136.2m in the fiscal year to June 28 The chocolatier blamed its £6.5m after-tax loss on a large impairment charge The Hut Group’s IPO was … Read more
Best-selling author Joanne Harris recalls how a trip to a French town inspired her to write novel ‘Chocolat’ and reveals her favourite spots in Yorkshire By York Membery for the Daily Mail Published: 15:38 BST, 24 August 2020 | Updated: 15:38 BST, 24 August 2020 Best-selling novelist Joanne Harris checks in to our travel Q&A … Read more
Hotel Chocolat founder slams ‘crazy’ rates regime with stores paying more on property tax than they do on rent By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:42 GMT, 25 February 2020 | Updated: 23:42 GMT, 25 February 2020 The co-founder of Hotel Chocolat has demanded the Chancellor shake up the ‘crazy’ business rates system. … Read more
Exclusive for Mail On Sunday readers: A unique tour discovering the beauty of rural France with Chocolat creator Joanne Harris – the author of 15 bestsellers By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 13:18 GMT, 10 February 2020 | Updated: 13:18 GMT, 10 February 2020 The Lot valley, Tarn and the Haute-Garonne are three of France’s … Read more
Boss of Hotel Chocolat says high rents his company faces are a ‘penalty for being successful’ and opens fire on CVAs By A Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:30 BST, 2 January 2020 | Updated: 08:28 BST, 3 January 2020 The boss of Hotel Chocolat said the high rents his company faces are a ‘penalty for … Read more
Talking to Chocolat author Joanne Harris is like dipping into a box of soft centres that has lost the little guide that usually comes tucked into the lid: you don’t know what delightful surprise you are going to get next. First she tells me that, aged 54, she’s thinking of getting her first tattoo, an … Read more