Two well-known East Lancashire businesses have been brought together following the appointment of new owners.

Pendle-based business Pasture Farm Foods has been sold to long-established Burnley butchers Haffners.

New owners Ted and Dean Cockett say they are delighted to bring the two brands together and want to assure customers and staff it is ‘business as usual’.

Ted Cockett, managing director of Pasture Farm Foods and Haffners, said: “We recognised the synergies between our two businesses immediately and opened discussions with director David Chilvers.

“We are asked every single day if we do pie deliveries, both locally and nationally, but until now we have not had the capacity at our bakery and we did not have an online ordering function, nor the logistical capability to make deliveries consistently.

“All of these challenges have been dealt with through the acquisition, which will come as good news to our loyal Haffners customers, who will soon be able to get next day or workplace deliveries throughout Burnley and Pendle for all meat and pies.

“It is good news for too for existing Pasture Farm Foods customers, as we will now be introducing our full range of pies into our Colne shop.

“We also have plans to add breakfast butties and breakfast pies to our offering there, and to serve coffee throughout the whole day.”

Haffners had been a family-run business since it was established in Burnley in 1889 and was taken over by Ted and Dean in September 2022.

Meanwhile, Pasture Farm Foods was established in 2002 and became a limited company in 2019.

Ted continued: “We’re passionate about both Pendle and Burnley. We grew up here and we’re proud to live and work here and hope the Pendle community welcomes news of the takeover as warmly as Burnley did last year.”

The Pasture Farm Foods shop in Whitewalls Close, Colne, will be rebranded as Haffners, though staff and service will remain the same.

Wholesale customers will still be serviced under the Pasture Farm Foods brand.

Neil Wood joins the business as operations director, ensuring smooth integration of the two businesses.

David Chilvers, of Pasture Farm Foods, said: “I am delighted that Ted and Dean are the new owners of the business and have no doubt they will look after our customers as we have done over the past 21 years.

“I wish them well for the future and look forward to seeing the business grow and prosper.”