EPISODE · Apr 2, 2025 · 17 MIN
Chocolate Entrepreneur Leanne Neeland Grows Her Regional Victorian Tourism Business -Graeme Kemlo
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Graeme Kemlo chats with entrepreneur Leanne Neeland about her move from Western Australia to Victoria in 2012 to visit the wine regions of Victoria and find a tourism-related business to establish. With husband Ian she found a niche in chocolate and ice cream, establishing the Yarra Valley Chocolaterie and Ice Creamery soon after. Now Leanne has three locations and a fourth one on the way. She buys her couverture Belgian chocolate by the container load, using 3500 tonnes a year, serving thousands of family and group visitors to her premises every day and employing more than 200 staff plus 19 specialist chocolatiers, a number of them trained in Europe. Leanne spoke with Graeme earlier this week. Photo supplied Locations: Yarra Valley www.yvci.com.au Great Ocean Road www.gorci.com.au Mornington Peninsula www.mpchoc.com.au Bendigo is the next location
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Graeme Kemlo chats with entrepreneur Leanne Neeland about her move from Western Australia to Victoria in 2012 to visit the wine regions of Victoria and find a tourism-related business to establish. With husband Ian she found a niche in chocolate and ice cream, establishing the Yarra Valley Chocolaterie and Ice Creamery soon after. Now Leanne has three locations and a fourth one on the way. She buys her couverture Belgian chocolate by the container load, using 3500 tonnes a year, serving thousands of family and group visitors to her premises every day and employing more than 200 staff plus 19 specialist chocolatiers, a number of them trained in Europe. Leanne spoke with Graeme earlier this week. Photo supplied Locations: Yarra Valley www.yvci.com.au Great Ocean Road www.gorci.com.au Mornington Peninsula www.mpchoc.com.au Bendigo is the next location
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