Peters (bakery)
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Peters is a bakery chain in the United Kingdom.
It was founded by Peter Knowles in 1966 with its first branch at Belmont in Durham, it now has 71 branches across north east England and employs 700.
Its principal competitors are the Newcastle based Greggs who maintain branches in the same area of all of Peters'.
In 2004 its production plant at Durham was destroyed in a large fire forcing production to move to temporary accommodation in Peterlee until September 2005 when a new 9 million pounds facility was opened on the same site.