Greggs
Coverage tracks the growth, strategy, and innovation of one of the UK’s most successful high street food-to-go operators. Reporting includes store expansion into travel hubs and retail parks, extended trading hours with evening menu trials, partnerships with delivery platforms like Just Eat, and development of the click-and-collect app. Insight also covers performance updates, value-led pricing strategy, and shop design evolution, offering a detailed view for operators monitoring scalable, convenience-led formats and accessible brand positioning in UK food retail.
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Apr- 2024 -5 AprilPeople
Greggs appoints non-executive director
Greggs has announced the appointment of Tamara Rogers as an independent non-executive director on its board, effective from 1 June. From June of this year, Rogest will also join Greggs’ audit, remuneration and nominations committee. Rogers, who has over 30 years of experience across a range of commercial and marketing…
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Mar- 2024 -5 MarchFood and Drink
Greggs profits and sales soar
Greggs has reported pre-tax profits of £188.3m for the 52 weeks ended 30 December 2023, compared with £148.3m from the previous year. Its sales also increased 19.6% to £1.8bn and its underlying profit before tax excluding exceptional income was up 13.1% to £167.7m. The group opened a “record” 220 new…
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Jan- 2024 -10 JanuaryFood and Drink
Greggs to open 160 new stores as FY23 sales rise
Greggs has revealed it plans to open between 140 and 160 new shops in 2024 as total sales in FY23 increased 9.6% to £1.8bn. The food-to-go retailer saw a 9.4% increase in like-for-like sales during Q4 of the year, which the company said was driven by the popularity of the…
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Dec- 2023 -6 DecemberNews
EG Group to sell 218 KFC franchise restaurants
EG Group has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell all its 218 KFC franchise restaurants in the UK and Ireland to Yum! Brands’ KFC Division. The transaction agreed by EG Group – the largest KFC franchisee in the UK and Ireland – is an additional…
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1 DecemberNews
Greggs and Fenwick launch Bistro Greggs pop-up
Family-owned department store Fenwick is collaborating with leading food retailer Greggs on a pop up at Fenwick Newcastle. Launching on Friday 1 December, and running to New Year’s Eve, Bistro Greggs will be an all-day dining destination, from 9am to 8pm serving breakfast, brunch and lunch dishes from a Parisian-inspired…
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Oct- 2023 -10 OctoberNews
Greggs opens first café in Sainsbury’s
Greggs and Sainsbury’s have joined forces to launch the first Greggs café inside a Sainsbury’s store. The new Greggs café, which opened in Sainsbury’s Crystal Peaks and created 15 new jobs for the area, is the third Greggs shop to open in partnership with Sainsbury’s, following the successful launch of…
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3 OctoberBusiness
Greggs Q3 sales up 21% amid store openings and extended trading hours
Greggs has announced that its total sales rose 20.8% for the 13 weeks to 30 September 2023. Alongside this the company-managed shop like-for-like sales were up 14.2% as a result extended trading hours and increased app usage. Evening trade represented 8.8% of company-managed shop sales while 13.1% of company-managed shop…
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Aug- 2023 -10 AugustAnalysis
Greggs’ recipe for success
By May 2023, Greggs’ sales had shot up by nearly a fifth compared with the same time in 2022, as its offering of sausage rolls and pasties remained “compelling” to customers during the cost-of-living crisis. In the spring of this year, the country-wide chain of bakeries also revealed that hot…
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1 AugustFood and Drink
Greggs profits jump 14.2% to £63.7m in H1
Bakery retailer Greggs has revealed that its underlying profit before tax excluding exceptional items increased 14.2% to £63.7m in the 26 weeks ended 1 July. This comes as the group’s total first-half sales increased 21.5%, with company-managed shops experiencing a like-for-like increase of 16%. Meanwhile, an underlying earnings growth of…
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Jun- 2023 -28 JuneComment
Why plant-based menu items don’t need to reinvent the wheel
It’s time for restaurants to look more critically at their plant-based menus, specifically when it comes to meat-alternatives. You only need to visit your local high street chains to see that while some serve a decent array of vegetarian and vegan options, most fall short in their meat-alt offering, where…
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