Group Lead, Ved Krishna
Hello, hello! What happens when a priest and an art director get together and start their own company? They create a sustainable and ethical gourmet chocolate company that’s taking the world of cocoa lovers by a storm! Join Ved Krishna as he unravels the riveting journeys of chocolate connoisseu
0:00 – of course talk all about packaging and we talk about technology But...
EES and Norm what a joy it is to have you at home do you know this is my first podcast recording from my home in Oregon so thank you so much for coming over thank you than you for having us and for the listeners we are so happy to have you here because it’s very rare that we get a customer perspective so we of course talk all about packaging and we
10:00 – Company we are because what we did is we created the company...
with those guys and actually it was a blessing for us because Varona is a b Corp and uh what they do in the this very dirty business uh because if we think that Cafe is a dirty business chocolate is really bad as well that’s because of the Coco yeah it’s all the human human right violations because because of Africa uh and the other countries uh al
20:00 – care about what is inside the packaging we start take the packaging...
packaging chocolate is chocolate is as as y said you know that’s taken for granted it is the best so I talk about that but but I now I’m seeing this s that because people are now coming to us because of our emphasis upon the and that’s the difference yeah I want to get much more into that of course but before we kind of diving in a lot for packagin
31:00 – cardboard and the the non nonuse of plastic yeah a lot of...
cardboard and the the non nonuse of plastic yeah a lot of that came from this guy yeah but first well plastic yeah no way I mean plastic in France we know that plast France was the first country in the world to ban plastic bags from the retailers and it was in the late 70s the beginning of the ‘ 80s and it oh yeah that was like a big thing and beli
41:00 – okay so then um it is uh moisture barrier and oxygen barrier...
and then when you let it melt you realize that no it builds all this Aroma in your palette and then sorry guys because I have a piece of chocolate in my my mouth I’m sure lots of people listening may be feeling jealous right now and I think they should be because I have an amazing piece of chocolate in my mouth and the the the Mexican what you can
51:00 – food industry too uh like a catering company instead of offering plastic...
would you imagine that well they’re already very well protected because it’s basically it’s plastic you know no if it didn’t have plastic like in general without like like if we are to imagine packaging okay understand okay yeah so if if it’s a true chocolate like the one we’ve just consumed or versus it’s a chocolate that is a manufactured chocola
62:00 – want the paper to look like plastic and that has its challenge...
catering company saying you know it’s nice what you’re doing is great but come on I mean plastic forks and nice s you can do better so he’s talking with her right now to because he understood that for him okay there will be a price point but you know he can increase about two or 3% nothing is going to change for him but he understand that okay it’s
72:00 – whether it's it's packaging whether it's food that respects our environment and...
he saw our passion yeah not so much our product yeah yeah it in a yeah it was it was and I think he even said that and the dream and the dream we had a dream and that’s what he got excited about was the dream and the vision not the chocolate in fact I remember at one point he even said to us that okay the chocolate’s okay okay well I remember it wa
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