Our Story
| Margaret Hall began life in 1963 in a small shop, No. 2 Regent Street, Leamington Spa, owned by Ted and Margaret Hall. It started as a general shop but soon became well known for its fantastic bread and cakes. Margaret was soon struggling to make her famous apple pies so decided to call on the expertise of Peter Walsh, friend and colleague from their days at Elisabeth The Chef. As the demand on the bakery increased, Margaret decided to concentrate on making the high quality bread and cakes on which the small general store had built its local reputation. Margaret Hall's bakery business was born. | 
Picture: Margaret Hall on her 80th birthday delivering her own birthday cake. |
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Gradually, as the business grew, the number of shops across the Midlands increased to 14. By 1973, the small premises used for the bakery couldn't keep up with sales in the shops and the business moved to a purpose built building in Warwick. We have continued to invest in this site over the last 35 years and we now have a modern, state-of-the-art bakery, occupying premises of over 26,500 square feet.
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| During the 1990's
Peter's son Jonathan joined the business and concentrated on establishing a strong
local and national wholesale side to the business. Over time the wholesale side
of the business became so successful this led to the sale of the retail shops in 1998. We now
concentrate on supplying our Margaret's Country Kitchen range of craft bakery confectionery
nationwide to a wide variety of customers. We also work closely with some
of our larger customers to create and develop specialised bespoke
products. We still make our confectionery using recipes and
equipment which Ted, our founder, would recognise. We make everything ourselves at our
Warwick bakery in small batches and pride ourselves on the flexibility and
versatility of our staff and equipment.
Picture: Jonathan (our current MD) carrying out a site inspection at an early age when the bakery was built! |
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The Margaret's Country Kitchen range is continuing to grow and is available throughout most parts of the country via our distributor network. Although most of our cakes are supplied as part of our ambient range, we have a strong frozen customer base and have on site capabilities for blast freezing and frozen storage. |
Ted would never compromise quality in order to cut costs and this has always been the company's policy. Although many of our products for our major customers are made to their specific requirements, it will always be our endeavour to produce bakery products of the highest quality and offer the best service that we can to our customers.