Sweet taste of success for Ann

Ann Rudden has been in the chocolate business since 1999.

We’ve longed for it as youngsters, carried sticky melting squares around in dusty pockets in an attempt to make it last, and savoured its melt-in-the-mouth deliciousness.

Chocolates, in elaborately trimmed boxes, are the ubiquitous gift to mothers, lovers or would-be lovers, and sales rocket on Valentine’s Day and at Easter.