{"id":77,"date":"2024-08-19T20:13:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T20:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kings-fine-cooked-meats.co.uk\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2025-01-18T17:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T17:27:53","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kings-fine-cooked-meats.co.uk\/?page_id=77","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nOver 125 years of only
the finest cooked meats\n<\/h1>
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Our story started back in 1888 when Frank King opened up a Butchers Stall in Wigan's famous Market Hall. Mr King's stall went from strength to strength and quickly gained a reputation for quality and service, especially his home cooked meats.

Just as Frank King did 125 years ago we still manufacture the finest full muscle products, surpassing the quality of our competitors whilst keeping the price comparable.

We do this by combining traditional methods and recipes which have been passed from generation to generation with new technology and ideas.\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>
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\nBuilding on our proud heritage
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\n1888\n<\/h1>
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\nFrank King opens a butchers stall in Wigan's famous Market Hall.

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\n1970s\n<\/h1>
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\nThe company's ownership leaves the Kings family when an employee acquires the shares.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\n1993\n<\/h1>
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\nJohn Hamer takes full control of the Kings brand as it continues to grow in size.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\n2015\n<\/h1>
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\n\u00a33 million reinvestment started, including our 20,000 sq ft BRCGS AA+ graded factory.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nToday\n<\/h1>
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\nFast-forward to 2025, over 180 employees now work at Kings. Exciting new building plans and product designs are being worked on behind the scenes here at Kings\u2026\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>
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Over 125 years of only the finest cooked meats Our story started back in 1888 when Frank King opened up a Butchers Stall in Wigan’s famous Market Hall. Mr King’s stall went from strength to strength and quickly gained a reputation for quality and service, especially his home cooked meats.Just as Frank King did 125 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings-fine-cooked-meats.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings-fine-cooked-meats.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings-fine-cooked-meats.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings-fine-cooked-meats.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings-fine-cooked-meats.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/kings-fine-cooked-meats.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/kings-fine-cooked-meats.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings-fine-cooked-meats.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}