In November, administrators were appointed to York Cocoa House Ltd, which is based in Castlegate, in York City Centre and trades as York Cocoa Works.
The business, founded by Sophie Jewett in 2011, makes and sells chocolate, has a chocolate-focussed cafe and also runs chocolate making workshops. Orginally in Blake Street it moved to moved to Castlegate in 2018.
In recent years, it has suffered financial difficulties partly due to the pandemic and its related lockdowns, troubles compounded due to rising costs for ingredients and a quadrupling of its energy bill.
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