Hotel Chocolat Group Limited is a British chocolate manufacturer and cocoa grower.[3] It produces and distributes chocolate and other cocoa related products online and through a network of cafés, restaurants, outlets and factory stores.[4]
By 2023, it had been reported that the firm had 125 stores spread across the United Kingdom.[5] It is the only company in the UK to own its own cocoa farm. Its acquisition by Mars Inc. was completed in January 2024.[6]
History
In 1990, Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris began designing and selling mints under the brand "Mint Marketing Company (MMC)", before moving to chocolates about six years later under the "Geneva Chocolates" brand.[7]