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Charley's Chocolate are equity crowdfunding on Birchal

Charley's Chocolate are equity crowdfunding on Birchal

Charley's Chocolates are Australian 'tree to bar' chocolatiers, growing, processing, making and wholesaling their own chocolate from North Queensland

Lynn and Chris Jahnke are lifetime business people & farmers, who founded Australian Chocolate and Charley’s Chocolate Factory at Mount Edna, near Mission Beach, Far North Queensland Australia in 2012. After building a thriving business, they are now expanding and raising capital on equity crowdfund platform, Birchal

It all started after watching a story ABC Landline on cocoa bean production in Mossman, on the Atherton Tablelands. The Jahnkes had owned other retail businesses and farms and had made a decision to move to north Queensland from Melbourne to escape Melbourne’s cold. 

With no knowledge of growing cocoa and even less about chocolate making they decided to go into the chocolate business, planting their first beans in 2012. The first cocoa pods were harvested less than two years from seed in August 2014 and these made just 50 chocolate bars under the Charley’s Chocolate Factory brand.

Just 5 years after starting, they were recognised as a world class chocolate maker and judged to be one of the 18 finest cocoa producers is the world.

Charley's Chocolates are now equity crowd funding to expand their operations and engage more community and tourism within their products.


So much to love about this equity crowd fund

These two are truly the pin up kids for retirement choices. In an age where every crowdfunder seems to be an impossibly good-looking twenty something with a new age tech thing to launch, it's refreshing to see an established food production business muscling in to the scene.

Charley's Chocolate Factory owners (and their support team) have clearly been around for awhile, the business is well established, the product uses many local and indigenous ingredients for their unique flavour profiles (like Davidson's plum,  coconut and pineapple) and it's already an award winning product. That's about as inspirational as it gets. 

Last days on Birchal

Charley's are equity crowd funding on Australian platform, Birchal and the Expression of Interest phase is down to the last 4 days.



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