Butlers chocolates expands into US

IRISH luxury chocolate producer and retailer, Butlers Chocolates is to expand its network of retail outlets into the US.

The company has just completed a deal to open its first outlet in the Garden State Mall in New Jersey in February 2009, with future openings expected in the following 18 months.

Butlers also opened its first British-based store, in the Westfield shopping mall in London, last week.