How Holland's Pies went from being a tiny shop to a major UK brand

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Sign up to the free MyBury newsletter to get the best stories direct to your inbox While it began as a small bakery 170 years ago, Holland’s Pies is now one of the best-known pie manufacturers in the UK.

Holland’s started life as a small shop in Haslingden in 1851, selling pies as well as cakes and bread to hungry locals but before long the company had outgrown its base and in 1929 took over a disused cotton mill in Baxenden.

Textile mills don’t offer the typical layout for a food production factory and so it took six years to convert the building.

Holland’s is still based at that former mill today with 95% of employees coming from the local area. One of those employees is Noel Duffy from Baxenden who has worked for Holland’s for 41 years.