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With his grandmother’s patisserie shop and his father’s ice cream business, Angus has speciality food retailing hard-wired into his genes. He founded Hotel Chocolat six years ago with business partner Peter Harris and it has been organically grown into the UK’s leading super premium chocolate brand. Angus is the creative force within the business with a hands-on approach to the development of new recipes and concepts, where he works with a talented team of specialists. He still insists on tasting every new chocolate recipe. Although he has been trained in chocolatier skills, Angus maintains that a creative mind and a passion for recipe integrity are more important, citing Hotel Chocolat’s current mantra of ‘Less Sugar, More Cocoa’. Stripping away excessive sugar allows the true flavours of the cocoa bean to express itself, particularly noticeable in the company’s pralines and high cocoa milk chocolates.