Wrights Pies

Wrights Pies (Shelton) Ltd.

Founded	1926
Founder	John James Wright
Headquarters	Stoke-on-Trent, England
Key people	Peter David Wright
Products	Baked goods/Pies/confectionery
Owner	The Wrights Family
Number of employees	480
Subsidiaries	Wrights Food Group
Website	www.wrightspies.co.uk

Wright's Pies (Shelton) Ltd. is a manufacturer of baked goods and confectionery based in Stoke-on-Trent, England.

History

The company was founded in 1926 by John James Wright and is still family-owned. In 1926, John Wright started making pies from the front room of his terraced house in Stoke-on-Trent. The Stoke-on-Trent factory is now used for confectionery production with the main premises based in Crewe.

Retail

Wright's have 13 of their own retail outlets. College Road Stoke, Northwood, Stoke, Burslem, Tunstall, Rugeley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Hanley, Fenton, Meir, Leek, Bilston Kidsgrove & Biddulph. There are also two franchises:

Rob Walleys Shops - Campbell Road Stoke & Longton
Neil Woods Shops - Biddulph & Hanford

Wholesale

Wright's operates a fresh wholesale delivery service operating from Crewe. Deliveries can be made to Manchester, North Wales, Derby and Birmingham. Freshly baked pies & savouries, confectionery and sandwiches are available Monday to Saturday.

Frozen

Wright's also have a frozen food delivery operation which gives you the option of ready baked frozen products or frozen un-baked products which you can then bake off as you need them. Wright's now exports to over 26 countries.

Overall, the company is capable of producing over 5 million individual items every week.

References

"You're wright, we ate all the pies!". The Sentinel. 2004-08-03.

External links

Official website

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

City and Unitary Authority area of Stoke-on-Trent

Areas, towns and wards

History

Parliamentary constituencies

Current	Stoke-on-Trent North Stoke-on-Trent Central Stoke-on-Trent South

Historic	Burslem Hanley Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-upon-Trent

Religion

Tourism

Buildings	Bottle ovens Etruria Hall Ford Green Hall Trentham Mausoleum The Villas Wedgwood Institute Water World Winton Square (North Stafford Hotel)

Theatres	Regent Theatre Victoria Hall Theatre Royal

Museums and libraries	Burslem School of Art Ceramica Chatterley Whitfield Etruria Industrial Museum Gladstone Pottery Museum Montagu C. Butler Library Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Spode Museum

Shopping	City Sentral Potteries Shopping Centre

Parks and countryside	Berryhill Fields Hanley Park Hartshill Park Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival Trentham Estate

Sport and music venues	Britannia Stadium Golden Torch Jollees Longton Cricket Club Ground Meir Heath Cricket Club Shelley's Laserdome The Sugarmill The Underground Vale Park

Media

Publishing	Cross Rhythms G&Y Pits n Pots The Oatcake The Staffordshire Sentinel

Radio	BBC Radio Stoke Cross Rhythms City Radio Signal 1 Signal 2 UCB UK Stoke & Stafford (DAB Multiplex)

Education

Companies

Pottery	Aynsley China Beswick Pottery Burleigh Pottery Carlton Ware CERAM Churchill China Clayburn Pottery Dudson Emma Bridgewater Etruria Works Gray's Pottery James Sadler and Sons Ltd J. & G. Meakin Midwinter Pottery Mintons Moorcroft Palissy Paragon China Portmeirion Pottery Royal Doulton Royal Winton Shelley Potteries Spode Wedgwood W H Grindley

Other	Armitage Shanks Bet365 Canditv Clay Records Dechra Pharmaceuticals Goodwin Steel Castings Hanley Economic Building Society Randles Motor Group Shelton Bar Sons Ltd. Titanic Brewery Twyford Bathrooms Wrights Pies

Sport

Association football teams	Dresden United Eastwood Hanley Hanley Town Meir KA Norton United Port Vale Stoke City

Speedway teams	Stoke Potters Stoke Spitfires

Transport

Canals	Caldon Canal Trent and Mersey Canal

Public transport	D&G Bus First Potteries Stoke Streetcar

Rail	Longport railway station Longton railway station North Staffordshire Railway Stafford-Manchester Line Stoke-on-Trent railway station Stoke railway works

Major roads	A34 A50 A52 A53 A500 Longton Interchange

Miscellaneous

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