Proper Pies and Puds

Our amazing brand

You may well know who we are, where we are and how long we've been around, but did you know this? ...

  • We’ve been baking since 1851 and we’re the north west number one pie and pudding brand with a:

     - 70% share of trade in chip shops

     - 74% market share of frozen individual pies in supermarkets

     - 9% share of trade in total chilled pie sales in supermarkets 

  • We’re asked to send our pies all over the world by ex Lancastrians

  • People of all ages write poems and plays about Holland's

  • Families write in to arrange ‘Golden Ticket’ style factory tours

  • Requests are regularly made for pie wedding and birthday cakes

  • One fan has kept one of our pies frozen for over 36 years

  • Another has taken his burnt meat pie all over the world – the pie even has its own sombrero and deck chair and has been on GMTV!

  • 92% of people in the north west have heard of Holland’s*

  • 7 out of 10 people in the north west eat pies, pasties or puddings and 6 out of 10 of them eat Holland’s Pies*!

  • On average our pies are viewed as being ‘better than other pie brands’ by eaters and buyers of pies in the north west*

Quite simply, everybody in the north west loves Holland’s pies!!!

*source TNS 06 Brand Omnibus     

FW Farnsworth Limited t/a Holland's, Baxenden, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 2SA

Company Registration Number: 255912

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