Galloways Bakers is a British chain of

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and pie shops, which is based in

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. It specialises in savoury baked products such as

pies A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit (as in an apple pie), nuts ( pecan pie), brown sugar ( sugar pie), sweet ...

, pasties, barms and sweet items including confectionery and cream cakes. As of 2020, it has 25 stores across the North West region of England.

History

Galloways Bakers was founded by Ronald and Patricia Galloway in 1971, it started from a single store in the Newtown area of

, which was named The Pie Shop. By late 1970s the company had grown to four premises, and its name was eventually changed to Galloways Family Bakers. In 1989 it became a

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, and throughout the 1990s and 2000s it expanded the number of stores across the North West. In 2017 the store introduced a special range of baked goods in support of

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reaching the

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final. In the early 2000s the Galloways sold the business to a long time employee who still owns the company over 20 years later. During the

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, all of its 25 stores were shut for nearly two months due to the national lockdown. Starting in late May 2020 a phased reopening of its branches was brought in, after the company introduced

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measures to its shops.

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* Bakeries of the United Kingdom Companies based in Wigan British companies established in 1971 {{UK-company-stub