We‘ve taken Miss COCO to China, attended another fabulous good food show, went to the women of the year lunch , joined Andrew Fairlie for a stage in his kitchen .

We were lucky enough to meet the stunning Lulu who is desperate to try our chocs, Ruby Wax, Lorraine Kelly, Baroness Kennedy and a 106 year old suffragette!

Miss COCO has now formed a great relationship with the delicious Equis ice cream who have made a stunning Miss COCO gelato- pop into their Hamilton shop and try ‘Miss COCOs intense chocolate gelato infused with lemongrass and fresh orange’ (BTW gelato means low fat, not that we care). We showcased the Gelato at the BBC good food show and it went down a treat!

Our stand meant that we brushed shoulders with lots of celebs at the Good Food show- grumpy Greg Wallace has gone down in our estimations through! Who could refuse Miss COCO chocolates, thats the last time we watch masterchef.

I was lucky enough to spend two days with Andrew Fairlies smooth talking french patisserie chef, Gerard making macarons, marshmallows, soufflés and of course chocolates! An absolutely fantastic experience thanks so much to everyone who helped me. An amazing team of staff.

Good luck to our good friend and honorary COCO girl Alize Mounter, the current Miss England who is currently competing at Miss World- good luck Alize.

COCO girl, Amanda has now taken charge of our twitter so there may actually be some updates now haha, follow us at http://twitter.com/#!/MissCOC0 

The Corinthian are showcasing our range and will soon be doing Miss COCO parties- any excuse to party there!

Lots of new and bespoke cakes and designs- email for details

 

Things are really getting exciting at Miss COCO headquarters! In the last week month we have won two more awards- Best Product SIE New Ventures Award and NACUE Leisure, Hospitality and Services Award! We picked up our Scottish Institute of Entrepreneurs award at the Royal Concert Hall in front of Sir Tom Hunter, Gillian O’Neill at moviecom.tv and the wonderful Joanne McLeod from Brewhaha to name but a few, and even enjoyed a few wines at 29 afterwards. The overall finalist of NACUE has yet to be decided at the British library on May 10^th- not that we are nervous!

 

We think this is pretty good going, but to bring us back down from our Katy Perry cloud our factory front door fell off yesterday and we nearly had to sleep in the factory over night to protect our delicious chocolates. Eek!

 

Back down to the nitty gritty and importantly chocolate!! We have lost of new Easter products on our website including our delicious Easter bunny- nearly too cute to eat (we said nearly).

 

We will once again be attending the Girls Day Out 6-8 May and the Ideal Home Show 26-29 May both at the SECC. And are also taking part in a Royal Hen Party at the Corinthian- more details to follow- we’ll let you know what Kate’s wearing!

 

Thanks to Gregg McClymont and Cathie Craigie for popping down to the Miss COCO factory and getting their very own tasting!

 

Whoop whoop we won an award!

Miss COCO has won the BT Scotland award for Scotland's most visionary business- we are absolutely over the moon- what a fantastic way to celebrate our first year trading. Many thanks to PSYBT and BT Scotland for the award, and thanks to Mrs COCO and COCO girl Cora Buchanan for accepting the award on my behalf- they couldn't have done a better job!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have several new stockists including Lorne Hotel, Scotch Corner in Pitlochry.

There are lots of new products coming out  we have a cool Miss COCO beetle car filled  delicious strawberry drops, “Driving us COCO”  and for Easter we have a stunning hand decorated Bunny! Keep your eyes on the website.

Once again we are going to the Girls Big Day Out on the 6,7 and 8 May. And have lots of other events coming up including the North Lanarkshire business awards tomorrow night, we will be attending the SIE final on 24 March.

We have a forthcoming factory visit from Gregg McClymont on 18 March. We’ll be popping along to the fair at Litecraft on Great Western Road on 2 April and the Costco wedding fair on 17 April. As of next week you will also be able to find our products and parties on giftedpeople.co.uk

 Our latest commission

Are you ready for valentines day ? Miss Coco is!

Not only have we got fantastic chocolates dip, decadent champagne truffles but now we also have cup cakes available !!! So if your special someone doesn't love our just chocolate, then perhaps Miss Coco can now tempt your special someone with one of  our adorable cupcakes. 

 Miss Coco has also won a BT Scotland Award a very prestigous business award  in Scotland that is highly saught after. So everyone at Miss Coco HQ is sparkling away more than usual .

Also a big congratulations to Paul and Kirsteen on there engagment, and which Miss Coco provided the beautiful choclate cake! The couple were thrilled with the cake and sent us a little email to say thanks:-

"The cake was to die for - wow

Everyone loved it and it tasted so good

Thank u so so much "

 Miss Coco will aslo be at Sloans market this weekend so hurry on down for your valentines chocolates.

ttyl

xxxxxx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJMRMGLveU Our Miss COCO girls this weekend looking awesome! 

 

Miss COCO is back after a break over Christmas and New Year. We were rushed off our feet and have never been busier! Former Mr Scotland gorgeous Gavin MacDonald even pitched in doing our first Miss COCO deliveries.

And we'll have lots of delicious chocolates for Valentines day- treat your other half, or even better- treat yourself. Chocolates will be online this week, and the Miss COCO girls will be out in Edinburgh next week handing out discount vouchers sporting roller skates- we are all a little nervous, it's been a while!

Our chocolate parties have been going down a treat! We are continuing them this year, so if you fancy a night in with the girls give us a ring 01236 737 554.

Following the success of our 5 star review in the Sunday Mail we will be doing a special offer this month on our 3 disc Rose and Ginger box ...

 

'Miss Coco rose and ginger discs These handmade treats, created by independent chocolate retailer Sarah Finlay, are absolutely delicious and will melt in your mouth. The clear winner of the group. They are beautifully decorated with a chunky piece of ginger, a generous drizzle of dark chocolate and edible glitter full of eastern promise. Miss Coco Chocolates will make a great gift for your friends and family.'

And catch us in this months No1 magazine due to come out tomorrow...

Miss COCO will be at Scotland's Speciality Food Show the 23rd-25th January.

Coming soon we will have a delicious new recipe being brought to you by Cup on Byres Road if it is anything like their cupcakes it will be to do die for! We're excited!

We have had a fantastic couple of weeks at the BBC Good Food Show, The Girls Day Out and topping up on our chocolate making skills! Thanks to Lanarkshire for taking us to the Good Food Show- we had a sell out day on Sunday and it was great to meet lots of our current and new customers. I was interviewed for BBC news and the World Food Channel- very exciting! It was a lot of work beforehand, including building shelves (not our forte) thanks to everyone involved.

We have lots of new exciting ideas after a fantastic chocolate making course for a week in Manchester all of which will be online asap! 

Last weekend we were had another great weekend at the Girls Day Out at the SECC sponsored by No1 magazine. We had lots of exciting new products including our Giant Cupcake, Louboutins, and chocolate cake all available to buy. Thanks to COCO girls- Fiona, kim, Roslyn, Amy, Kerry and Mrs COCO for all their help last weekend. 

Christmas orders are now flooding in and we are busier than ever. Last week we did some stunning wedding favours for the Morven Bremner's wedding- congratulations.

We have been lucky enough to be featured in the PSYBT magazine this month.

Our newest stockist Dilse in Morningside Edinburgh will be opening their doors next week- Good Luck. With Christmas coming up we are rushed off our feet so get your online orders in!

We have been working hard all week in preparation for the BBC Good Food Show, our factory is bursting at the seams with lots of delicious chocolates. We will be at the Lanarkshire stand so please pop along and visit us. 

Last night we were at the Yamaa charity event in the Piping centre. As well as having lots of orders including 2 beautiful hampers for KPMG.

Happy birthday to COCO girl Kim, way too many birthday drinks this week!

We are away next week up to top up on our chocolate making skills however we will still be taking orders and making deliveries. Next weekend you will find us at Sloans market- we'll be here right up until Christmas. The 5-7 November we will be at The Girls

Day Out at the SECC. 

 

Miss COCO will be at Sloans market from 11 today 

Next week is chocolate week and in celebration we will be launching five new products at special prices for a limited time only, these will include our Chocolate Gingers, our 'You're a Nutter', a selection of mini discs, a mixed box and our chocolate shoes.

As always we have been kept busy at lots of events with the COCO girls modelling at both Thee Wedding Show and the Fabulous Wedding Show. They were even joined by Mr Scotland, Gavin MacDonald (we might even make him a COCO boy!). Congratulations to COCO girl, Cora Buchanan for winning Miss Earth Scotland 2010 she is off to Vietnam, we’ll miss her.

We have been inundated with orders for some beautiful commissions and our champagne truffles are proving very popular!

Last week Miss COCO provided the prizes for the Burlesque dancing at the Swishing Event in aid of Huntingtons Disease which proved great fun!Thanks to the Academy of Burlesque and Cabaret.

Good Luck to the Daisy Chain in Condorrat for their relaunch they are now stocking Miss COCO chocolates www.daisychaincumbernauld.com

Other retailers include Chocolatz, Paisley, The Boathouse and Wheelhouse on Auchinstarry and Falkirk will be serving up delicious Miss COCO hotchocdips, and D’Lish in East Kilbride have some delicious treats.

I Heart Food in Bothwell is our latest stockist and will have some fabulous chocolates in soon.

We are getting booked up for Christmas and are happy to come along to a fairs and markets- please give us a call 01236 737554.

 Miss COCO and the Miss COCO girls will be at Thee Wedding Show on George Square tomorrow- entry from 10.30. Open Saturday and Sunday.

Full update coming soon. x

We have had a busy few weeks here at Miss COCO. Including a great wedding show at the Hilton Grosvenor for the Fabulous wedding show. We had some great new favours which went down a treat including new bars with dates piped on them. 

The Miss COCO girls (in conjunction with Dea Agency) modelled some stunning wedding dresses. Thanks to Scot at the flower snob for a stunning bouquet www.flowersnob.co.uk – we look forward to working with you!

We are now making wonderful chocolate hampers to specification which can be sent out on demand- please email us for all enquiries. Current hampers are £20 and £30. In addition we are making some beautiful chocolate shoes.

Included in this range are our Cinderella and Dorothy shoe.

The Lord Provost officially opened our little factory on Monday. Provost, Tom Curley tried chocolate tempering and sampled our ‘You’re A Nutter’ nutty crèmes, and of course cut the ribbon. We decorated the place with some oversized Alice In Wonderland style bows. Pictures will appear in the Cumbernauld news this week.

We were at the Lipstick and Lashes event in aid of the Prince and Princess of Wales on Friday and our chocolates went down an absolute storm. Once again we bumped into the Butlers in the Buff boys (wearing only aprons)- who lifted me up for a picture- when I stop cringing I’ll get these pictures up!

We managed to get up to Gleneagles for the Jonny Walker golf event- everyone loved our chocolates as usual. Once again we were at Sloans market today and will be there next Saturday too.

After all that hard work we are off for a break to soak up some sun! We return on Friday- don’t miss us too much.

 Miss COCO will be at Sloans on Saturday and The Fabulous Wedding Show at the Hilton Grovesnor on Sunday.

Thanks to Jonny and Sonny at the Bobar, Hilton Grosvenor http://www.hilton.co.uk/glasgowgrosvenor for creating some fabulous new cocktails for Miss COCO this week- it was a dream trying them- cocktails and chocolate and two gorgeous guys making them for you: what more could you want? The first recipe will be released soon.

We have been making lots of changes to our online store and adding lots of fabulous new products like ‘YOU’RE A SAINT’, we are also now offering free delivery on orders over £15.

I Love Candy is running a chocolate promotion and have an exclusive Miss COCO disc in both their Glasgow and Edinburgh stores. MacKinnon Mills is now stocking the full range of Miss COCO chocolates. And next week Miss COCO will be available in Newton Mearns at Mearns Castle golf academy. Big thanks to Bellcom and Response for letting us trade in their offices last week.

Last weekend was very busy with another great Saturday at Sloans market. On Sunday we were at the Crutherland Hotel wedding fayre offering brides lots of new chocolate wedding favours, and we are still doing lots of commissions.

Amongst all this we even managed to squeeze in a trip in the Hamish Mini from Peter Vardy.

Miss COCO is off to London this weekend and will be visiting lots of chocolate stores, and trying lots of chocolate.

We were lucky enough to be featured twice in ION magazine this quarter!

We are now also running Miss COCO chocolate parties! Please enquire through our contact form for a full itinerary and prices.

We are so excited to be attending this years BBC good food show! It is held on from the 22nd-24thOctober at the SECC and the Miss COCO girls will be there handing out delicious chocolates.

This week Miss COCO is featured in the window of I Love Candy, have a look! The hotchocdips are going down a treat at Cup on Byres Road and Rosebud on Dumbarton Road is now stocking Miss COCO chocolates. Big thanks to Fiona at Pure Lochside this week for the gorgeous facial, just what we needed after a hectic weekend at St Andrews for the Open! http://www.purelochside.com/

The Clydesdale bank ladies night was great tonight with gorgeous handbags, cards and delicious food from Craig Wilson.

This weekend we will be at Sloans market enjoying the merchant city festival so pop by- chocolate and music, what more could you want? Keep an eye out for our mention in ion magazine this month too!

We are busy with wedding right now and have lots of different favours to offer brides. Alongside our traditional boxed favours, hotchoc dips and discs we can offer buttons, stars and chocolate boxed wedding scenes.

This month we are featured in The Scottish Wedding Directorys 'Whats New' section.

Thanks to the Grand Central Hotel for meeting with us this week, the head chef commented that Miss COCO was "The most exciting thing I've seen in the chocolate industry in a long time". We can't wait until their hotel opens it looks gorgeous! Thanks to BNI lochside for inviting Miss COCO along- it was great to meet everyone.

We also now perfected our gorgeous champagne truffles and nutty creations which will be online to buy shortly.

Upcoming events

We are heading to T in the Park this weekend so no markets I'm afraid!

22 July Clydesadale Bank ladies night

23 July Santander

15 August Tea for Tommy lunch

22 August Fabulous Wedding Show

27 August Girls Uptown- Lipstick and Lashes

28 August Auchentoshan Distillery Market

5 September St Andrews Trust Event

we'll update our blog with any changes and new events

Happy birthday to our Miss COCO girl Cora, we're all heading out for some lovely dinner tonight!

Last night  the Miss COCO girls were at the Ghullie Dhu in Edinburgh in conjunction with the Events Curve for a fashion show, a fantastic night - and all for a good cause.

We are very excited to have lots of new retailers on board including Kimbles in the St Enoch Centre http://kimbleschocolates.co.uk/, Hillfoot garage in Bearsden, Mimis Kitchen at St Georges Cross, Simply Bliss beauticians at St Georges Cross - great manicures and massages too! And we are looking forward to supplying I Love Candy on Byres Road. As well as plenty of weddings keeping us busy.

Saturday we were at he Fleadh as well as popping to the Royal Highland Show, hello to everyone we met there. The food was amazing, we are so lucky to have such great produce in Scotland, strawberries were so tasty.

Lots of exciting meetings today and after all our hard work popped in to Gleneagles for a  champagne lunch- we needed a break.

Thanks to Morgan Stanley and the NHS for letting us come in over the last couple of weeks.

We will be at Sloans market this weekend and have lots of exciting events coming up- we’ll keep you posted!

Keep up to date on our new Facebook page as we have loads of exciting promotions lined up.

This weekend we are heading to Aberfeldy for the Rob Roy challenge on Saturday and Lomond Shores on Sunday.

We have had lots of commissions chocolate bars with names and birthday numbers as well as wedding orders this week. Please drop as an email or a call to discuss commissioned work for a special gift. Miss COCO is also available to give talks and demonstrations. The Miss COCO girls will be attending the Charity Fashion at the Ghillie Dhu in Edinburgh on 30th June at 7pm tickets are £15 and can be purchased at www.theedinburghaddress.com. And we will be in Real Radio again on Tuesday at 12.00.

This week we were also featured in the Cumbernauld News, Core Magazine and www.allmediascotland.com.

Cup on Byres Road are now serving Miss COCO hot chocolates alongside their gorgeous cup cakes mmm….

Wow what a week! Miss COCO website sales launched last week and our first orders came flooding through on Wednesday. Not only that but we have been lucky enough to have received great press from the Daily Record, The Metro and The Dundee Courier amongst others.

The Miss COCO girls took to Buchanan street for a photo shoot and handed out scrummy chocolates to the public including Rose and Violet Crèmes, strawberries dipped in milk chocolate, strawberry truffles and fresh pineapple dipped in dark chocolate. We were even on the Hour last Wednesday with Michelle McManus and Stephen Jardine making Chilli chocolate which no one could keep their hands off! We even caught the model firemen stealing our discs after the show. Have a look on STV http://player.stv.tv/programmes/the-hour/2010-06-02-1700/

The Miss COCO girls were lucky enough to enjoy a cruise round Loch Lomond last week sipping champagne and enjoying our very own strawberries dipped in chocolate mmmmm… a nice wee break after all their hard work!

We have some new suppliers and you will be able to find Miss COCO produce at Cadeau in Esporta, Hamilton, Natures Delights in Stepps, and Mimis at Charing Cross. On Saturday we were back at Sloans, and will be at Wemyss Bay Gala day this Saturday.

Thanks once again to everyone who I have met over the last few weeks including Scottish Women in Business and BNI, especially Tracey at the Thrill of It All. A huge thanks to everyone for their support during our launch.

Please let us know what you think of Miss COCO on our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=293686064534&ref=ts