Hotel Chocolat : Block listing six monthly return 6th January 2021

6 January 2021

Hotel Chocolat Group plc

("Hotel Chocolat", the "Company" or the "Group") Block Listing Six Monthly Return

Date: 6 January 2021

	Name of applicant:		Hotel Chocolat Group plc
	Name of scheme:		Hotel Chocolat Group plc 2016 Save as You Earn and
		Hotel Chocolat Group plc 2016 Long Term Incentive
			Plan
	Period of return:	From:	06/07/2020	To:	05/01/2021
	Balance of unallotted shares under scheme at end of	1,443,206
	last return:
	Plus:The amount by which the block scheme has	Nil
	been increased since the date of the last return (if
	any increase has been applied for):
	Less:Number of shares issued/allotted under	72,417
	scheme during period:
	Equals:Balance under scheme(s) not yet		1,370,789
	issued/allotted at end of period:
	Name of contact:		Bernadette Young
	Telephone number of contact:		01702 476824

Hotel Chocolat Group plc	c/o Citigate	+ 44 (0) 20 7638 9571
Angus Thirlwell, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Peter Harris, Co-founder and Development Director
Matt Pritchard, Chief Financial Officer
Liberum Capital Limited - Nominated Advisor and Broker		+ 44 (0) 20 3100 2222
Clayton Bush
James Greenwood
Citigate Dewe Rogerson - Financial PR		+ 44 (0) 20 7638 9571
Angharad Couch
Ellen Wilton
Kieran Farthing

Notes to Editors:

Hotel Chocolat is a premium British chocolatier with a strong and distinctive brand. The business was founded in 1993 by Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris and has traded under the Hotel Chocolat brand since 2003. The Group sells its products online and through a network of 130 locations in the UK and abroad. The Group has one restaurant in the UK and a cocoa estate and hotel in Saint Lucia. The Group was admitted to trading on AIM in 2016.