Cooplands

Coopland & Son (Scarborough) Ltd. / Cooplands Retail Ltd.
Private
Industry Food (baker)
Founded 1885
Headquarters Eastfield, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
Number of locations
 150+
Products Sandwiches, pasties, pastries, cakes,desserts, bread, drinks and other baked goods.
Website cooplands-bakery.co.uk
Cooplands logo
Cooplands Logo
Cooplands in York, North Yorkshire

Cooplands (Coopland & Son (Scarborough) Ltd) are bakers with a chain of over 140 outlets and 11 cafes located across Yorkshire, Durham and Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom. Cooplands produces takeaway food chiefly for the lunch-time trade, specialising in sandwiches, pasties, desserts, cakes, and bread. It competes with other local café and takeaway outlets, and national and international high street food chains and franchises.

By 2011, it had expanded to become the third largest bakery chain in the UK.[1] In 2011 the company's annual turnover was £23 million.[2]

Cooplands of Doncaster is a completely separate bakery chain and is in no way affiliated with Cooplands (Coopland & Son (Scarborough) Ltd). The similar company name and business model has led to a lot of confusion in the past. Particularly when Coopland (Doncaster) Ltd went into administration.[3]

History

Cooplands was founded as a single shop in Scarborough North Yorkshire in 1885,[4] and was incorporated in 1949.

In 1999, the company opened 10 new stores, and expanded production at its Scarborough-based bakery with the creation of 80 new jobs. A further expansion was announced in June 2007 when it acquired the Hull-based bakery, Skeltons. The purchase added 34 outlets to the Cooplands chain.[5]

In April 2011, Woodhead Bakery, a rival Scarborough-based chain, fell into administration. Of the 29 Woodhead outlets, Cooplands bought 18, and the rest were purchased by the Haldane Retail Group.[6]

In 2005, Cooplands was noted as being an "established NVQ training centre", and received a National Training Award for staff training. The same year it held a "Careers in the Bakery Industry" event, with career advisors discussing employment opportunities.[4]

In 2017, Cooplands received £8.5 m investment from BGF to accelerate the rollout of its shops across the north of England.[7]

Cooplands Doncaster

The Doncaster-based Cooplands chain is in no way affiliated with Coopland & Son (Scarborough) Ltd.[8] Coopland (Doncaster) Ltd. has outlets across South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, North Nottinghamshire and parts of Lincolnshire. It is a Private Limited Company, incorporated in 1933, with a 2011 turnover of £18.6 million.[9]

In February 2015 Cooplands Doncaster announced it had gone into administration and would close 39 stores and its head office and bakery in Doncaster.[10] However, on the same day, the business and certain assets of Alison's Coffee Shops, including 29 retail units were acquired by a new company, Cooplands Retail Ltd. The 150 employees of TACS (Alisons Coffee Shops) have been retained by Cooplands Retail Ltd and the business is continuing to trade as Cooplands from the 29 outlets throughout Yorkshire.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Rollits help Cooplands of Scarborough expand". Rollits.com. 28 April 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Coopland & Son (Scarborough) Limited". Company Check. Company Check. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "'Business as usual' – bakery chain Cooplands issues message after collapse of rival firm". www.sunderlandecho.com. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Case Studies - Live Case Studies - Company Case Studies - Rising to Success - Improve Ltd". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 4 April 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Cooplands buys Skeltons - British Baker". Bakeryinfo.co.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Woodhead Bakery saved from administration | Food Industry News". just-food. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Bakery chain Coopland & Son receives £8.5m investment from BGF". BCMS. December 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "Cooplands in Newark forced to close after firm goes into administration | Newark Advertiser". legacy.newarkadvertiser.co.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  9. ↑ "Cooplands (Doncaster) Ltd". Company Check. Company Check. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Cooplands stores across Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Immingham and Louth will not be affected by closures". Grimsby Telegraph. 6 February 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Cooplands of Doncaster sold in pre-pack administration deal". British Baker. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
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