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Mr. Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe

British sweets store chain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ24960010 ↗
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Mr Simms Sweet Shop is a British sweet shop chain offering a range of products, primarily boiled sweets, in shops noted for their Victorian architecture. The first shop opened in Leek in September 2004, though the company is now headquartered in nearby Stafford. There are currently over 70 branches in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Simms, Olde and Sweet can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mr. Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.