Ethical Business: creating the UK's first plastic negative, plant-based chocolate bar - Sameer Vaswani, Prodigy Snacks

Sameer Vaswani chats to podcast host Yiuwin Tsang about how running a successful confectionery manufacturing operation in Lagos, Nigeria led him to want to disrupt the chocolate industry and take on the big brands. B Corp certified Prodigy Snacks was born in 2018 with the mission to reinvent chocolate to be less damaging to our bodies, and to the environment. Join Sameer as he talks about learning leadership lessons, being planet conscious, and creating tasty, healthy, sustainable chocolate.

Sameer is the Co-founder of Prodigy Snacks. He originally started his career as a chef opening his first restaurant at the age of 25. Five years later, without any manufacturing experience, he relocated to West Africa to start a confectionery manufacturing business producing biscuits, candies, gums and chocolate.  After twelve successful years, he sold the business to a multinational before moving back to London in 2016 to start Prodigy because he wanted to effect industry change. 

Sameer continues to tackle the issues in the world of chocolate: health, sustainability, and ethics.