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Cooplands - Family Bakers Since 1932
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Cooplands History
The Cooplands Story started in 1932 when Mrs Alice Jenkinson opened a shop at 33 Hallgate, Doncaster to sell home made cakes and chocolates. Word of these quality cakes and chocolates rapidly spread, and within 12 months Mrs Jenkinson employed a full time baker to cope with demand and started to expand the range of products.
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The First Shop, 33 Hallgate
1932
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A modern Cooplands shop
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Cooplands Today
Over the years the company expanded it's product range and in addition to bakery lines it became renowned for cooked meats, delicatessen lines and in-store butchery units. However with advent of the modern supermarkets Cooplands had to review what customers wanted from this new trading environment and during the 1990s rationalised the product range drastically to once again focus on the core bakery business.
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Along the way, due to shifts in Doncaster's central shopping area, the original shop ultimately closed and in the 1980s Cooplands converted it into The Hallcross Public House, complete with its own micro-brewery. Cooplands subsequently purchased the Turnpike pub at Bawtry, and the Lion Hotel at Worksop. The pubs were sold in the 1990s, but the company still owns and operates the Best Western Lion Hotel, a quality 44 bedroom hotel on Bridge Street, Worksop.
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Cooplands continues to be very much a family run business with the founder's son, Mr David Jenkinson, as the company's Managing Director, and her daughter, Mrs Mary McIlroy, as the Chairman of the Company.
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