industry food manufacturing founded 1851 founder john whittaker headquarters baxenden england products pies pasties puddings parent 2 sisters food group website hollandspies.co.uk holland s pies is a manufacturer of pies and puddings based in baxenden near accrington in lancashire england . owned by 2 sisters food group the company also produces pasties and sausage rolls . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 pies 2.2 pasties 2.3 others 3 sponsorship 4 references 5 external links history edit holland s was founded by john whittaker in 1851 as a confectioners shop in haslingden lancashire . walter holland bought the business in 1890 and moved to a much larger bakery in 1907 from where pies were delivered locally by horse and cart . the first of holland s famous brightly painted vans appeared in 1927 and by 1938 there was a fleet of 20 vans making regular deliveries around the north west . cake production ended at the bakery due to sugar rationing during world war ii and meat pies became more popular . after the war in 1946 the decision was taken to sell the company to r.gummer ltd. a provisions firm of london and liverpool . holland s was bought out by pork farms in 1972 who in turn were bought by northern foods in 1979 . holland s thus became part of one of the uk s major food manufacturing groups . remaining part of the northern foods portfolio following the sale of pork farms to vision capital in 2007 holland s pies and puddings are sold at 85 % of chip shops in north west england . 1 products edit these are the products currently manufactured by holland s 2 pies edit just steak steak and kidney potato and meat meat beef and pork cheese and onion chicken and mushroom lancashire hotpot pork chicken tikka peppered steak steak and guinness beef and onion chicken and ham potato cheese and onion chicken balti pasties edit cornish pasty cheese and onion beef and vegetable corned beef others edit sausage rolls steak and kidney puddings sponsorship edit in 2007 holland s signed a two year club record shirt sponsorship deal with local team burnley f.c. . 3 as part of the deal holland s pies are sold on matchdays at turf moor . references edit holland s about us holland s pie range new shirt sponsor burnley news latest headlines latest headlines external links edit official website v t e british pies sweet apple pie bakewell tart banoffee pie bedfordshire clanger black bun custard tart manchester tart mince pie rhubarb pie treacle tart savoury bacon and egg pie bedfordshire clanger bridie butter pie chicken and mushroom pie corned beef pie cornish pasty cottage pie cumberland pie curry pie devizes pie fish pie game pie homity pie killie pie meat and potato pie melton mowbray pork pie pork pie scotch pie shepherd s pie squab pie stargazy pie steak pie steak and kidney pie steak and oyster pie woolton pie manufacturers clark s pies dickinson & morris fray bentos ginsters higgidy holland s pies mr kipling peter s poole s pork farms pukka pies shire foods square pie wall s wrights pies v t e culture and infrastructure of the borough of hyndburn transport accrington corporation steam tramways company accrington corporation tramways pilkingtons buses railway stations accrington church and oswaldtwistle huncoat rishton disused stations baxenden great harwood sport accrington cricket club accrington f.c. accrington stanley f.c. accrington stanley f.c. 1891 church and oswaldtwistle cricket club crown ground enfield cricket club great harwood f.c. great harwood town f.c. peel park rishton cricket club thorneyholme road media 2br accrington observer the bee education accrington academy accrington and rossendale college heathland school the hollins technology college mount carmel rc high school norden high school and sports college rhyddings business and enterprise school st christopher s church of england high school companies holland s pies howard & bullough kleeneze morada history burnley rural district politics council elections 1976 79 80 82 95 96 98 99 2000 02 03 04 06 07 08 10 11 12 14 15 constituencies accrington hyndburn north east lancashire by election 1880 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title holland % 27s pies & oldid 744061205 categories british pie brandscompanies based in hyndburnfood and drink companies established in 1854northern foods 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 12 october 2016 at 21 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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