Manufacturer and exporter of premium craft chocolate, couverture chocolate and gin chocolate. High-quality cacao will always be our main ingredient, even in milk and white chocolate. At Harris & James, this will never be compromised. We are reducing the sugar and putting chocolate back into chocolate.
Company Description:
Harris & James (H&J) produces chocolate for both the impulse & gift markets using high quality ethically sourced cocoa beans from single estates. H&J are reducing the sugar and putting chocolate back into chocolate.
Harris & James is a small chocolate factory born out of a passion for individuality, located in the historic market town of Beccles on the Norfolk Suffolk border.
Since 2015 we have sourced ethically traded beans from around the globe which starts the careful processes of hand sorting, roasting, cracking, winnowing, conching and finally tempering before moulding to make a chocolate with individual taste.
Our aim is to source the best quality cocoa beans in the most sustainable, social and environmental way. Whenever possible, we use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. As chocolate makers, we are impassioned and feel a responsibility for translating cacao’s unique taste and heritage through our chocolate. We use our stringent, hard-earned expertise to achieve this, founded on the framework of education and many cycles of trial and error.
Back in 2015, we started our journey into making chocolate at our small site in Suffolk, using a coffee roaster and a household wet grinder. Heartened by the initial results, we later launched our chocolate range in three of our retail outlets in 2016.
To ensure continual improvement and innovation, we plan each year ahead accordingly. Our aim from the beginning and continues to be about bringing quality chocolate back to the consumer and to make it special – how chocolate should be – not be product-driven by accountant-led confectionery giants.
Most of the world’s ‘chocolate’ is loaded with sugar – flip over the next bar you see and check. At Harris & James, we do this a little different. Hence, our mantra for making chocolate has always been and always will be ‘More Quality Cacao, Less Sugar’. High-quality cacao will always be our main ingredient, even in milk and white chocolate. At Harris & James, this will never be compromised.
