CHOC Chick to launch Blissful Blends at the Speciality & Fine Food Fair

CHOC Chick will be launching their new Blissful Blends at the Speciality & Fine Food Fair from Sunday 6 to Tuesday 8 September 2015 at London Olympia. The new range of raw cacao, blended with natural spices is available in four flavours - natural cacao, cinnamon, cardamom and mandarin.  

CHOC Chick’s Blissful Blends come in individual sachets, with each unique combination creating a divine hot chocolate drink. The new range will join the popular raw chocolate making kits and organic cacao ingredients in the Speciality Chocolate Fair section of the show, on stand 3330.

Galia Orme, founder of CHOC Chick, will present samples, tastings and live raw chocolate demonstrations at the stand. Using dairy, dairy substitutes and water, she’ll create tasty treats that show the health benefits of raw chocolate and the versatility of her products.

Looking forward to the event, Galia said: “With National Chocolate Week happening from 12 to 18 October 2015, the Speciality & Fine Food Fair is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about chocolate. Cacao is a versatile, yet often misunderstood ingredient. I want to show visitors how chocolate can be healthy as well as delicious.”  

CHOC Chick will be one of over 70 fine and artisan chocolate producers from around the world at the Speciality Chocolate Fair. A showcase for luxury and gourmet chocolate, this dedicated section of the Speciality & Fine Food Fair is the UK’s only trade event dedicated to the premium end of the market.

CHOC Chick products are available in 200 stores across the UK and Europe. These include Whole Foods Market UK, Harvey Nichols, Infinity Foods and Magasin Du Nord in Copenhagen. They’re at 140 Holland & Barrett stores and have been the company’s online bestseller since March 2015.

Introduced to the east coast of the US following a recommendation to Whole Foods Market North Atlantic, CHOC Chick products can be found in 30 stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine. 

CHOC Chick will be on stand 3330 at the Speciality & Fine Food Fair. For more information on CHOC Chick, visit www.chocchick.com, follow on Twitter and like on Facebook. 

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Galia Orme – Founder of CHOC Chick

Galia Orme is the founder of CHOC Chick, the business she established in 2009.

A confirmed chocoholic, Galia founded CHOC Chick to provide raw chocolate making kits, recipes and organic ingredients to likeminded people. Products provided by the company enable chocolate lovers to create and enjoy chocolate that is free from dairy, gluten, processed sugar, additives and, most importantly, guilt.

Having visited Ecuador in 2011, Galia ethically sources organic cacao ingredients for CHOC Chick products directly from cooperatives and farmers in Ecuador.

Galia has achieved great success with CHOC Chick. Initially set up as an online store, the company was supplying John Lewis food halls by 2010. That year also saw CHOC Chick products being sold by four distributors to over 200 stores across the UK and Europe. These included Whole Foods Market UK, Harvey Nichols, Infinity Foods and Magasin Du Nord in Copenhagen. In 2015, her products were listed by Holland & Barrett and now available in 140 stores.

In 2014, Galia introduced CHOC Chick to the east coast of the US. Following a recommendation to Whole Foods Market North Atlantic, she secured US representation and got her products in 30 stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine by early November.

Galia now plans to establish CHOC Chick as an international brand with distribution across Europe, the US, China, Australia and New Zealand.

Born in South America, Galia originally moved to the UK in 1989, living in London for 7 years and settled back in the UK in 2002. Her varied career has seen her study law, sing in a rock band and work as a volunteer with trafficked young women. She has worked in marketing communications in the high tech industry in Israel and the USA, as well as in business development for an internet marketing company in Brighton.

Upon turning 40, Galia decided it was time to do what she really loved. The choice was between singing and chocolate.

Chocolate won.