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cooplands in doncaster and cooplands in scarborough, which are separate business arms of the same family, have each bought 10 stores .
cooplands former bakery & head office, wharf road, doncaster. picture: marie caley ndfp 05 - 02 - 15 cooplands mc 4
cooplands former bakery & head office, wharf road, doncaster. picture: marie caley ndfp 05 - 02 - 15 cooplands mc 5
a spokesman for cooplands said: “we are pleased to be continuing the hard work that had gone on over the preceding two years to return cooplands to its former glories .
more than 300 jobs are to go across yorkshire after bakery firm cooplands went into administration .
cooplands’ head office and production site in doncaster, as well as 39 stores, will close .
cooplands is an artisan bakery, producing fresh bread, sandwiches, savouries and confectionery every day .
doncaster - based craft bakery business cooplands has been saved in a pre - pack administration deal .
a spokesman for cooplands retail limited this week said: “we are pleased to be continuing the hard work that had gone on over the preceding two years to return cooplands to its former glories. ”
“cooplands will continue to focus on providing great customer service and the best quality products at competitive prices .
“we would like to thank our loyal customers and staff for their support during cooplands’ 83 year history .
on the same day, the business and certain assets of alison’s coffee shops, including 29 retail units, were acquired by new company cooplands retail limited. the 150 staff employed by acs have been retained by cooplands retail limited and the business is continuing to trade as cooplands from the 29 outlets across yorkshire .
more than 300 jobs have been lost at south yorkshire bakery chain cooplands after the firm went into administration .
business restructuring specialist resolve has bought 41 of the stores, as well as cooplands’ bap van delivery business .
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around 50 jobs have been saved in the town, despite bakery chain cooplands going in to administration for the second time .
details of the closing cooplands of doncaster shops have been released, after the bakery went into pre - pack administration last week .
alison’s coffee shops limited (acs) - which traded as cooplands and operated from premises in doncaster – entered administration last week .
cooplands of doncaster should not be confused with scarborough - based craft chain coopland & son, which has not gone into administration. the company trades as cooplands quality bakers across east yorkshire, lincolnshire and the north east, and is a completely separate company .
“an entirely new product range is on sale and an ever increasing percentage of products is made in house at the original bakery of cooplands in doncaster .
he added that a new product range was on sale and that an increasing percentage of products was made in - house at the original cooplands bakery in doncaster .
“on the same day, 29 retail units (countrywide) were acquired by cooplands retail limited. the 150 staff have been retained and the business continues trade. ”
cooplands of scarborough has bought skeltons from administration in a deal which almost doubles its estate from 43 to 77 shops and makes it the uk' s fourth - largest bakery chain .
paul davies, director of resolve said: “resolve are pleased to announce the purchase of the majority of cooplands (doncaster) stores, preserving more than 260 jobs at the company .
robert mcilroy concludes: “cooplands now has better control of the overall business, not least because we receive up - to - the - minute accurate information via our reporting system. ”
adrian berry, for deloitte, said: “cooplands has seen a recent deterioration in trading performance across its retail business, which combined with a significant fixed manufacturing cost, has resulted in unsustainable losses .
in numerous ways, alfarichi and j2 have helped cooplands increase the efficiency and profitability of its shop estate, at the same time making managers more autonomous and reducing the need for head office resource .
when the company first went in to administration, cooplands’ head office and production site in wharf road, doncaster closed, as well as 39 stores. in total 303 jobs were lost in the town .
the emphasis of cooplands is to maintain the product service that has continued over the past decades, which has established the company’s traditional, family - run image. alongside this image is the reliance upon local suppliers in the making of its products, as david explains: “some of cooplands’ suppliers have been working with the company since 1932. the business has formed a comfortable relationship with some suppliers, which is important and shows reliability. wherever we can, cooplands buys regional produce – however, that isn’t always possible, so occasionally it will have to import supplies from other regions and countries. every so often, the company has to go abroad to buy special items, like chocolate from belgium. ” cooplands also believes in only dealing with honest suppliers which remain upfront about the prices of their products and delivery costs: “the company relies on their honesty, meaning that it only deals with suppliers that keep their word and don’t add on hidden charges. those suppliers that cooplands has been associated with for longest have been upfront about their charges. ”
nasim sharf, corporate partner at rollits who led the deal said
we have a strong association with cooplands and this was an excellent opportunity to work together again to secure some of the woodheads 'bakery stores .
nothing exciting. sandwich and pastie were
fine
. sausage rolls as ever greasy as hell once cold. just your standard cooplands really. should have gone to one of the
less chain
pie / pastie shops really .
the company expanded the range of products it sold in the 1980s to include cooked meats, a delicatessen line and an in - store butchery, as well as the bakery line. following the competition and new trading environment provided by the rise of supermarkets, the 1990s saw cooplands re - focus upon its bakery line. the original shop was closed as doncaster town centre was restructured, and the company turned it into the hallcross public house, which had its own brewery. cooplands also invested in the turnpike pub at bawtry, as well as the 45 bedroomed lion hotel in worksop. facing competition from companies like gregg’s and baker’s oven has meant that cooplands has concentrated on maintaining its high levels of service .
in a statement from resolve, the company said: “we would like to thank our loyal customers and staff for their support during cooplands’ 83 - year history and your local bakery looks forward to serving you for many years to come. ”
when cooplands secured a deal earlier this month to take over 18 of the woodhead bakery shops after they fell into administration, it marked another step in the success of the company and excellent news for the economy of hull & the east riding .
a spokesman said: “alison’s coffee shops limited which traded as cooplands bakery has gone into administration. stephen parker and trevor binyon, partners in opus restructuring llp were appointed as administrators on november 2. following a period of sustained cash flow pressure .
i was working in acomb and called in to cooplands for some snap. despite it being really busy i was quickly served. i ordered a tuna salad sandwich and a fruit tart. the lady who served be was in great spirits and made a delicious ...
this shop has all the trademarks of no investment. one person on duty is ridiculous and they had run out of 3 of the 4 things we wanted. the next time we went they did not have 2 of the 4 things we ordered. cooplands ...
since opening their first store in scarborough back in 1885, the business has expanded to cover an area stretching from lincolnshire to teesside, and from the east coast to leeds. now with 111 shops and 9 cafes, cooplands is one of the region' s biggest employers .
lunch time - pasties are like a 5 - 10 min wait because there still in the oven. no chocolate concrete fuming, and one large nasty stale yum yum absolutely awful it has put me off cooplands for the time being now will stick to gregs and its ...
the york / scarborough branch of cooplands (the half that didn' t go into and out of receivership) still do decent yorkshire curd tarts. if you have a bakery in yorkshire and don' t sell decent curd tarts, there' s no point being there, is there ?
stephen parker, partner at opus restructuring said: “it would have been a tragedy if such a well - known local business as cooplands had failed after being a fixture in its region ever since it was originally established in 1885. we are pleased to see it survive and continue to serve its loyal customers. ”
this is the second time cooplands of doncaster has been sold in a pre - pack administration deal. just under two years ago, the business was acquired out of administration by corporate restructure specialists resolve. the sale secured 259 jobs, although 39 stores and the bakery and head office in doncaster closed, resulting in the overall loss of 303 jobs .
alfarichi software, running on j2 pc - based touchscreen tills, has addressed the operational issues a retail bakery faces and has raised the bar on efficiency and profitability. at cooplands, the software is installed in all the shops and at head office, where it helps to perform shop - related operations and is used by accounting, sales and ordering teams .
alfarichi has rolled out its solution on j2 615s to shops without pc - based tills; each has between 1 – 4 tills. as remaining non - j2 tills come to the end of their useful life, they are being replaced with j2s. says trevor claybrough: “within 2 - 3 years, cooplands expect to have moved entirely to j2s. ”
explains trevor claybrough, alfarichi’s managing director: “retail bakers were making do with epos developed for non - food retail or hospitality. no one was taking account of their needs. we were well advanced with our development and, in cooplands, found the perfect partner, willing to collaborate on fine - tuning a specialist solution and be the first to benefit from it. ”
the family - run environment of the factory is something that cooplands prides itself upon, as david comments: “i would say the key to our success has been the freshness of our products, coupled with the reliability of our delivery service. having the personal touch of being family run is also a key part of our business. primarily, the company bakes bread and cakes, but it also has a meat department, which cures ham and bacon, as well as a pasta production facility – resources a normal bakery wouldn’t have. cooplands employs almost 800 people, and every morning i like to personally tour the factory, and chat with the employees – i enjoy getting along and joking with everyone, it encourages the family feel of the environment. it is vitally important to maintain this close - knit relationship between management and workers, to make them feel like they belong. ” it is not uncommon for some employees to have worked for cooplands for 35 years or more. david is very keen to inculcate this ethos throughout the running of the company, and his hope for the future is focused on one goal: continuity .
he continues: “our software is well designed and not particularly resource - hungry so doesn’t need a powerful processor. we recommended the j2 615 because it’s robust. it’s fanless too, which is ideal for dusty retail bakeries, and staff find its 15” screens comfortable. cooplands uses the j2 615’s different mounting options, and has a combination of pole - and counter - mounting. ”
by 2008, cooplands was running its business using two epos systems. unable to communicate, neither was reliable nor could produce the mission - critical data needed to manage the business efficiently and plan growth. specialist epos solutions company, alfarichi, then came on the scene. alfarichi was already supplying its software to bakeries and was in the process of designing a bakery - specific epos solution .
comments trevor claybrough: “before acquiring the alfarichi and j2 solution, cooplands expended energy on trying to obtain accurate trading data. now its focus is on shop - specific and consolidated data, and on managing the business. it has complete visibility of profitable and less profitable shops, knows which shops and which products generate most wastage, and can easily pinpoint best - and worst - performing lines. ”
cooplands bakers is a long - established retail bakery business with a strong regional following and 85 stores across yorkshire, lincolnshire and nottinghamshire. the business has 550 retail employees, a further 200 in head office and production, and a yearly turnover of £18million – all the hallmarks of a business that knows what its retail and wholesale customers want, and that has evolved to meet the needs of successive generations .
in the past, five head office admin’ staff recorded and processed telephone orders from 85 store managers across up to 200 lines. now orders are now placed via the tills – a virtually error - free and instant process, and only two admin’ staff are needed to extract order data and enter it into the production system. this saving alone meant that cooplands gained a very fast return on its investment .
large shop estates and sales of daily - ordered and carry - over goods make stock management complex for retail bakeries. cooplands, for example, has 200 lines. given the bread and fresh cream cakes disposed of each day, wastage is a major drain on their finances. more so than in other retail sectors, bakeries need instant and reliable daily data from each shop to drive stock control and supply .
having worked at cooplands for over 50 years, david is devoted to keeping the same working routine: “i’ll be 78 years oldthis year, so i work shorter days. i start at 7. 30am and finish around midday, unless there is an emergency, and then i stay on longer. ” the company has come a significant distance since mrs jenkinson opened the baker’s shop in 1932, but coopland’s spirit has remained the same: using the same local, honest suppliers; focusing on producing the same quality products that the public enjoy; and guaranteeing delivery of products on time .
margins are slim in retail bakery, so it is important to track everything, down to the last gram of butter. a valuable function, unique to alfarichi, is the ability to record the weight and composition of made - up items such as sandwiches. the system highlights if precise weight / quantity or ingredient guidelines are not adhered to, say, too much butter being put in a roll, or ham disappearing from stock. cooplands now has complete visibility and can focus its attention on any shop that departs from the norm; yet another way of eliminating shrinkage through staff theft .
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most of the 285 jobs at yorkshire bakery chain ainsleys have been saved with the sale of the troubled business .
the leeds - based family business went into administration in november blaming rising food prices, energy costs and tough competition on the high street .
administrators at grant thornton have found buyers for 20 of its 29 stores across west and north yorkshire. they hope to sell the other nine shops soon .
meanwhile, the firm' s sandwich van business has been sold to a w food services .
joe mclean, a partner at grant thornton' s leeds office, has been leading the search for a buyer for ainsleys since the firm went into administration in november .
he said :
we are really pleased to have found buyers for the majority of the various businesses within the ainsleys portfolio .
negotiations are still ongoing in respect of the remaining nine stores and we hope to be able to announce a positive resolution shortly .
i would like to thank all ainsleys staff for their help and support during this difficult time .
their loyalty and commitment to ainsleys, shown by their high standard of work despite uncertainty and terrible weather conditions, has been vital in securing a buyer .
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rollits has advised coopland & son (scarborough) limited on their recent acquisition of 18 woodheads shops .
we helped them acquire 10 shops in leeds from ainsleys last year and in 2007 and also when they took over skeltons in hull with a large production site and additional 35 shops .
coopland 's managing director and great grandson of the company 's founder, paul coopland said
we are thrilled that in these difficult economic times we are able to expand our number of stores, reaching increasing numbers of customers and creating employment opportunities in the region .
rollits legal team who worked on the deal with mr sharf were glenn craft (property) and julian wild (food) .
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former morrisons supplier woodhead bakery has been saved from administration after being sold to two buyers on saturday (16 april) .
administrators p & a partnership has sold woodhead' s scarborough bakery and 11 retail outlets to haldane retail group' s bakery products ltd and offloaded 18 other retail outlets to scarborough - based bakers coopland & sons .
the administrators said that only one store will close and some 280 staff will be transferred to the new owners .
commenting on the sale, joint administrator christopher white said :
we were pleased with the level of interest generated in the company' s businesses and are proud to have achieved successful sales of the factory and 29 shops as going concerns. our thanks go to all the employees at woodheads. it' s a credit to them that they carried on working with the administrators throughout these challenging last few weeks .
haldane' s bakery products plans to use the purchase to improve the vertical integration of its bakery products. a spokesperson for the group said :
the woodhead bakery and shop portfolio represents an excellent fit within the existing haldane retail group portfolio. it offers total vertical integration which will see the bakery supply, in due course, all haldane retail group stores commencing with the initial 20 ugo stores .
on thursday, haldane announced the launch of its ugo discount supermarket brand, which it will start after buying some 20 former netto stores from asda .
the haldane' s spokesperson also said that the group plans to grow the bakery business, with plans to develop the pie people brand
in its own right
and open retail units under the brand .
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on 1st june 2015, improve & nsafd merged to become one company. the single entity is now known as the national skills academy for food & drink and is the sector skills licence holder. the organisation will remain not for profit .
in the interests of promoting joined up thinking and collaboration right across the industry, we’ve simplified our own offering – bringing the roles of ‘improve’ as the skills council for food and drink manufacturing under the national skills academy for food & drink umbrella. we now operate as a single entity, with a shared mission .
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staff were summoned to meetings yesterday where they were informed that jobs would go and stores would close across the region .
administrator deloitte said 303 jobs have been axed across the business, which employed a total of 562 workers .
“regrettably, we have had to close 39 retail stores, together with the bakery and head office in doncaster .
“however, there is some positive news with the sale of 41 retail stores and the entire mobile sandwich van business, which will preserve 259 jobs. ”
“your local bakery looks forward to serving you for many years to come. ”
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i recantly bought a sandwich from coopland & the bread cake was very dry as if over baked. the birds loved it though. found another sandwich shop & enjoyed my quick lunch .
we popped in here for a quick bite to eat and were served by a young guy. my boyfriend got a pie and asked if they had any forks, the reply was:' we' re not a restuarant' a bit taken aback, we left, only to realise ...
we made a pit stop into this bakers for a quick refuel before we ventured back on our way through the city, we went in around midday or just before and were welcomed by the staff who are very warm and friendly. the food we ...
the food here is cheap cheap. always a good quality and the staff are friendly. nice location to grab a quick snack on your shopping trip .
i was surprised that this small chain bakery was not listed in tripadvisor. we found this place after betty' s tea room which was lined outside the door. on this day i got a chocolate muffin for only £0. 71 and it was fantastic. i ate the ...
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the company is to shut 39 shops across the company, including sites in sheffield, doncaster, nottinghamshire, leeds, lincoln and rotherham .
forty - two shops will remain open and operating under the company, which has been bought by resolve, the london - based corporate restructure specialist .
when asked where the shops will be supplied from, with the shutting of the doncaster bakery, a spokesman said: “we will be making no further comments at this time. ”
the full list of shops that will remain open and those that will be excluded (i. e. closed) can be seen below .
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«thanks to alfarichi and j2 epos, we now know exactly how each shop is performing. our ordering and stock management have improved, and food wastage and till shrinkage have reduced. »
the business is split into retail sales – through stores and mobile sandwich deliveries; bakery and despatch – with inhouse baking facilities in doncaster; and wholesale operations – production of savouries, bread and sandwiches for the industry .
says claybrough: “retail bakers need to know what has sold well or sold out, and how much waste has been generated. although both sales and wastage figures should be recorded and communicated to head office at each day - end, many in the industry still make do with cumbersome systems that transmit data overnight by modem. ”
the j2 tills are true pcs and go beyond point - of - sale transactions. they are used in the shops for sales, ordering, stock - related operations such as declaring delivery ‘overs’ and ‘shorts’, ‘shop use’ and ‘damages’, transfer of goods between shops, and wastage .
stock control and ordering have improved. the business – both at a shop manager level and at head office – knows in real - time if stock is running out. when it comes to ordering, the till suggests a quantity for each product, based on past sales. this results in more accurate stock control, fewer empty shelves during the afternoon and less waste to dispose of. “stock is optimised so we don’t waste as many cakes and pastries, ” says mcilroy .
as for the order process itself, shop managers do this from the till rather than use a back - office telephone to call in sales each evening. the result is fewer errors, plus more time to spend front - of - shop serving customers .
in all retail businesses, shrinkage erodes profit margins. using j2’s touchscreen tills, where all products are defined to buttons, makes easy work of data entry and prevents items being sold inadvertently at the wrong price .
other till - based issues include staff ‘selling’ goods to friends and then cancelling the sale to reconcile till cash. the alfarichi system eliminates this with ‘void’ reporting. suspicious instances can be investigated and anything other than a genuine error flagged as dishonesty .
another plus of the alfarichi software is ‘shop reconciliation’. with order placement automated, delivered stock can be easily compared against its order and any ‘over’ or ‘short’ items flagged for head office to organise additional deliveries .
bakeries operate quite complex promotions. with the new solution, it is possible to analyse the true value of each offer and understand how effective it is in terms of margin and increased spend. “staff don’t have to remember complex promotions – the till does this for us, ” says mcilroy .
today, the company is focusing on the development of its website which caters for made - to - order celebration cakes. david outlines the company’s hopes: “i would like to see steady, careful expansion in the future. we would like to maintain the regional basis of the company, but also look into the possibility of opening up new shops. we run a successful delivery service that is very efficient, a service that begins at 2. 30am every day, and ends around 10am. all the shops are in a relatively close proximity to each other, easing the delivery system. ”
in regards to opening new stores, david continues: “operating regionally as this company does, there is always going to be a saturation point in regards to how many new stores the company can open, and it is approaching that. in the near future, i can see a possible five to ten per cent increase in stores without increasing the amount of regions the company operates in. ”
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restructuring firm opus, who were brought in to handle the companies debts in november last year, confirmed that the well - known high street chain had gone in administration for the second time since february 2015 earlier this month .
the spokesman added that although they did not have a specific breakdown of the figures, they estimated that around 50 jobs had been saved in the borough across eight shops .
administrators opus restructuring llp said it would have been a “tragedy” if such a well - known local business had failed after being a fixture in the region since 1885 .
“we are pleased to see it survive and continue to serve its loyal customer base” added opus partner stephen parker .
“customers are returning and sales are increasing once more, ” said the spokesman. “we are fiercely proud of coopland’s yorkshire roots and believe we offer a genuine and value alternative to the large national bakery chains and supermarkets. ”
a perfect place to call in for a takeaway lunch. lots of choice of hot pasties etc, and freshly made sandwiches and cakes. take advantage of their meal deal, its got to be the best value around .
it' s just over a year since we last called into the bakery at askern. it' s become an annual visit on the way to our friends in doncaster. what a disappointment to find that they no longer make yorkshire curd tarts - the best (as they ...
the doncaster - based firm, founded in 1932, had 80 stores, 26 mobile sandwich vans and 562 employees .
administrators deloitte said the business had made unsustainable losses, due to high manufacturing costs and falling trade .
part of the business has been sold to restructuring firm resolve, securing 259 jobs .
adrian berry, joint administrator, said :
regrettably, we have had to close 39 retail stores, together with the bakery and head office in doncaster .
however, there is some positive news today with the sale of 41 retail stores and the entire mobile sandwich van business .
shane sweeting, from the union unite, which represents about 10% of the workforce, said the firm had been a major employer .
these are jobs that are hardly likely to be replaced. they are a long - standing employees, they have been there a lot of years and they will really struggle to find employment elsewhere .
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cooplands ( coopland & son ( scarborough ) ltd ) and cooplands of doncaster ( now called cooplands retail ltd. ) were part of the same family and are bakers with a chain of over 100 outlets located across yorkshire , durham and lincolnshire in the united kingdom . by 2011 , it had expanded to become the third largest bakery chain in the uk . in 2011 the company 's annual turnover was £ 23 million . 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 . 
cooplands (coopland & son (scarborough) ltd) and cooplands of doncaster (now called cooplands retail ltd.) were part of the same family and are bakers with a chain of over 100 outlets located across yorkshire, durham and lincolnshire in the united kingdom. by 2011, it had expanded to become the third largest bakery chain in the uk. in 2011 the company's annual turnover was £ 23 million. 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.
cooplands (coopland & son (scarborough) ltd) and cooplands of doncaster (now called cooplands retail ltd.) were part of the same family and are bakers with a chain of over 100 outlets located across yorkshire, durham and lincolnshire in the united kingdom. by 2011, it had expanded to become the third largest bakery chain in the uk. in 2011 the company's annual turnover was £ 23 million. 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.