Louis Barnett (born 2 November 1991)[1] from Kinver, Staffordshire is a chocolatier who became the youngest supplier of both the Sainsbury's and Waitrose supermarket chains at the age of 14.
He started out cleaning and gardening, but was eventually trusted to fly the birds of prey in shows and corporate events.
[3] Chokolit was founded in 2005 and funded with a local grant of £5,000 and a £500 loan from his grandparents to buy a special machine that regulates chocolate temperature.
[9] Soon his parents' garage was too small to deal with the growing demand and production had to relocate to a new factory in Bridgnorth, Shropshire.
The factory was officially opened by South Staffordshire MP Sir Patrick Cormack on 14 December 2007.
He argues that the loss of rain forest to provide space for palm plantations causes the destruction of the only remaining habitat of Sumatran orang-utans and that together with the carbon dioxide formed by burning the oil it leads to a net increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Early in 2008, the MP who opened Chokolit's Bridgnorth production facility arranged for Barnett to meet Prime Minister Gordon Brown and conservative leader David Cameron at the Houses of Parliament.
Cameron called Barnett "a most remarkable young man who has the makings of becoming one of the significant entrepreneurs of the next decade".