Hoopers (department store)

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Hoopers is an English department store chain founded in Torquay in 1982. It is now trading from four department stores and online.^[1]

Locations

• Harrogate, formerly Hewletts (previously Schofields, prior to that Cresta House and originally the Harrogate branch of Marshall & Snelgrove; acquired 1996)
• Torquay, formerly Williams & Cox (acquired 1982)
• Tunbridge Wells
  , formerly Weekes (acquired 1990)
• Wilmslow, formerly Finnigans (acquired 1982)

Former locations

• Bradford, Hewletts (formerly Sara; acquired 1996)
• Carlisle, formerly Bulloughs (acquired 2006; closed 2013). [1]
• Post Office; closed 2003; building now occupied by Waterstones
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• Chichester (opened 1988)
• Colchester (formerly the Colchester branch of Keddies, acquired as a going concern in 1987)

References

External links

• Hoopers department store website

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