Enterprise Tuesday: funding global growth

With guest speaker Peter Harris, Co-founder & Development Director, Hotel Chocolat Chaired by Bina Mehta, Partner, KPMG. What does it take to develop a business into a profitable and sustainable global entity? How do you fund growth without being dependent on venture capital or giving away ownership through private equity? Hotel Chocolat was grown from nothing to a £100+ million business without private equity raising the bulk of its finance through normal banking facilities and “chocolate bonds” before floating in 2016. All this underpinned by programmes to support sustainable cocoa growing communities through its Engaged Ethics programme. The founders were determined to remain true to core values of authenticity, originality and ethics as they built the business. In this Enterprise Tuesday session, we discuss the lessons about expanding a business that all entrepreneurs and founders can learn from. Enterprise Tuesday is a series of free evening lectures and networking sessions managed and delivered by the Entrepreneurship Centre. Visit our website to find out more: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/enterprisetuesday Have a question? Please email [email protected]