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Queen Anne Highly Commended NZ Artisan Awards

Queen Anne Highly Commended NZ Artisan Awards

We were very excited (and more than a little proud!) to be Finalists in the recent NZ Artisan Awards with both our Fish Bites  & our Fish Selection gift boxes.   There’s always a lot of thought and a great deal of tasting that goes into the making of any new Queen Anne products. For those of you not familiar with our new chocolate treats, the idea for a Fish Selection came up when we were discussing which of our ‘school’ of Chocolate Fish we liked the best.  It’s a hard decision as they are all delicious – so what...

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The Green Queen Project

The Green Queen Project

Reduce – Reuse – Recycle  Here at Queen Anne we are committed to making our delicious chocolate treats & share responsibility for the environmental impact of the packaging that we use.  With changes to the plastics which can be recycled in New Zealand, we are making changes too. We are changing all our plastic trays to PET#1 which is recyclable in New Zealand.  We are also reducing the thickness of our trays to reduce the amount of plastic used.  The PET#1 plastic which we use for our trays is 90% recycled – the extra 10% needs to be new plastic for...

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Look what we found

Look what we found

We were over the moon to see this original old Queen Anne sign and hope it floods back some great memories. Do you have any Queen Anne history or memories you would like to share? We would love to hear from you if you do.

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50-year-old box of Queen Anne Chocolates

50-year-old box of Queen Anne Chocolates

We have a 50-year-old box of Queen Anne Chocolates – you must see it to believe it… Is this the oldest ‘actual’ box of chocolates in New Zealand? It's definitely a treasure – with quite a story behind it. This story begins in the late 1990's when we first relaunched Queen Anne chocolates. I was delighted and surprised to get a phone call from a lady who said that she had an actual 3lb box of Queen Anne Chocolates from the 1970's – full of chocolates! As first I didn’t believe her…. This is her story – in the 1970’s...

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