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Apr 2023
Cooplands closes Boroughbridge bakery
Cooplands has closed its bakery in Boroughbridge after little more than two years.
The company, which is the second largest bakery chain in the district, opened a shop on the town's High Street in February 2021.
But a sign appeared in the window recently saying the shop had now closed permanently and the nearest branch was on Beulah Street in Harrogate.
The Harrogate shop
The Stray Ferret asked Cooplands why it had closed its Boroughbridge branch and how many staff were affected.
A spokesperson said:
The spokesperson declined to comment beyond the statement.
Cooplands started as a single shop in Scarborough in 1885 and now has more than 160 shops in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and the North East.
It was bought in 2021 by the EG Group.
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