Chocolate Week

11th-17th October 2010

The Chocolate Week Blog

Artisan du Chocolat open three new Selfridges concessions

Saturday 24th April

Good news for chocolate fans in Birmingham and Manchester. Artisan du Chocolat have recently opened two new stores in Selfridges, Exchange Square, Manchester and Selfridges Birmingham with Artisan at Selfridges Trafford Centre to follow in June. The three new Artisan du chocolat shops follow Artisan’s design aesthetic whilst also reflecting its location. Gerard and his team now conche and refine cacao beans from South America, Caribbean and the Far East to create a great selection of chocolate…

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BBC chocolate programme, The Bitter Truth

Thursday 8th April

We’re a little bit late with this one but if you watched Panorama: Chocolate, the Bitter Truth a couple of weeks ago on BBC1 then you’ll know that it had quite an impact. We thought it was, on the whole, a great programme for raising awareness and promoting the fact that consumers need to have take more responsibility for the food that they’re consuming and for it’s source. Reporter Paul Kenyon travelled to West Africa to investigate child labour in cocoa plantations and…

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