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]

• 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)

• Bradford, Hewletts (formerly Sara; acquired 1996)
• Carlisle, formerly Bulloughs (acquired 2006; closed 2013). [1] Archived 22 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• Cheltenham (opened 1987 in premises formerly occupied by Cheltenham's main Post Office; closed 2003; building now occupied by Waterstones)
• Chichester (opened 1988)
• Colchester (formerly the Colchester branch of Keddies, acquired as a going concern in 1987)

• Hoopers department store website

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