Awards & Press

Our Madagascar 67% won 1 star and our Ecuador 70% won 2 stars in the 2015 Great Taste Awards! Our Rich Dark and Smooth Milk both won a Great Taste Award in 2011 and our Deluxe Praline Celection won one in 2009

Changing flavours of classic products offer the chance for budding entrepreneurs to recreate their old favourites

Proving there is innovation in the drinking chocolate sector is Hans Sloane, whose owner is Brian Watt

For much of its history, chocolate has been consumed in liquid form as a drink, rather than eaten as a solid. Ground cocoa, sweetened with sugar and flavoured with aromatic spices, was mixed with water or milk to make drinking chocolate. During the 17th century in Europe chocolate houses, like coffee houses, became popular places in which to meet and talk and sample this exotic new drink, hot chocolate.