A Daily Mail exclusive!
The only American to have reached the very top of the world’s luxury chocolate industry has revealed the money’s-no-object excesses, the shameless power grabs, and the celebrity-schmoozing that go on behind the scenes of its best-known brands.
As the US director of stores at Godiva through the 1980s and 1990s, Brad Yater helped transform it into the most popular super-premium chocolate in the US, valued at $1 billion and beloved by the rich and famous.
And in his new book, Chocolate Covered Money, he has revealed for the first time the industry’s ‘dirty little secrets’, from persuading the Pope to be a brand ambassador, to how he foiled a plot to defraud US immigration – with devastating results.