1966 headquarters durham united kingdom key people peter knowles chairman number of employees 580 website www.peters.co.uk peters was a british bakery chain . peters became defunct in 2012 and all bakeries were sold to family run business cooplands . history edit it was founded by peter knowles in 1966 with its first branch at belmont in durham ; it now has 71 branches across north east england . 1 its principal competitors are the newcastle based greggs who maintain branches in the same area . in 2004 its production plant at durham was destroyed in a large fire forcing production to move to temporary accommodation in peterlee until september 2005 when a new 9 million facility was opened on the same site . 2 in 2012 22 peters bakery stores across the north east region were sold to the family business coopland and son of scarborough this resulted in the closure of 34 stores . the peters factory at the dragonville industrial estate in durham also transfer ownership to cooplands the peters retail van business was being transferred over to cooplands as well . when peters made the sale their financial statements showed it had a turnover of more than 12m on the back of a network of 58 peters bakers stores across the north east region . references edit peters about us mystery fire closes bakery bbc news 15 december 2003 external links edit this food and or confectionery corporation or company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title peters bakery & oldid 708498974 categories 1960s establishmentsbakeries of the united kingdomcompanies based in county durhamfood company stubshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 march 2016 at 23 10 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view