About the Topping Pie Company

When Bill Topping founded his butcher’s shop in a suburb of Doncaster, South Yorkshire in 1960 little did he know that it was the start of a multi award winning company whose products would one day grace the delicatessen counter at Harrods!

From its humble beginnings Toppings went from strength to strength, moving to town centre premises in Doncaster in 1971. When Bill retired in 1989, the business was taken over by his son Roger, his wife Margaret and their son Mark who carried on the family tradition of success – winning the award for Best Butcher of the Year in 1981 and 1982.

But it was Margaret and her talent for baking that really put Toppings on the map. She started to make pies for the business in 1993 using the same recipes and totally natural ingredients that she had always used at home. The reputation of Topping’s pies quickly spread and within two years Margaret had set up a separate bakery division and moved to new larger premises in order to keep pace with demand.

The ethos of Toppings has always been to use only 100% natural, high quality ingredients and by 1997 the company’s reputation was receiving more awards and starting to attract the attention of the national media. By the year 2000 the company had once again outgrown its premises and the Topping Pie Company was officially born when Roger and Margaret took the decision to buy a new, larger building and fit it out as a bakery. By now Roger and Margaret were fully employed at the growing bakery while their son Mark still continued to run the original butcher’s shop.

Over the next five years awards continued to flood in. The Best Speciality Food Product from Yorkshire was won two years running and in 2003 Margaret received the accolade of “Speciality Producer of the Year”. The award was presented at the Great taste Awards Dinner where Andra Dang the delicatessen buyer from Harrod’s first heard about the Topping Pie Company and decided that he wanted to sell its products on his counter at the top people’s store.

5 Gold medal wins, Holland 1997
Gold, Silver & Supreme Champion, York 1999
Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards, York 2000-2005
Award for Innovation 2002
Best Speciality Food product from Yorkshire, 2001/2002
19 Gold Awards between 1997 - 2003

The Topping Pie Company
Unit 2, Chappell Drive,
Waterside Industrial Estate,
Doncaster DN1 2RF
email mail@toppingspies.co.uk