Greggs: Baker on a sausage roll as it plots further expansion across UK January 5, 2023 Greggs has said it is on track for 150 net new stores this year as its value-proposition protects it from a wider consumer down-turn. In a fourth quarter trading update, the sausage-roll seller said its sales stood at £1.5bn, as the firm bounced back after experiencing pandemic-related disruption last Christmas. Sales had surged 23 per [...]
Greggs opens new café in Primark’s Oxford Street store October 26, 2022 Greggs has opened a new café on the top floor of Primark’s flagship Oxford Street store, following the launch of their collaboration earlier this year. The new 110-seater London café will offer a menu of all Greggs’ customer favourites following the success of the first ‘Tasty by Greggs’ eatery in Primark’s Birmingham shop in February. [...]
Greggs: Sausage roll sales rise as consumers look for cheaper eats October 4, 2022 Greggs has reported surging sales this autumn while making no changes to its cost inflation outlook for the year. The sausage roll specialist said on Tuesday that total sales were up 14.6 per cent for the 13 weeks to 1 October 2022, compared to the same period in 2021. Price increases of around five pence [...]
Flat profit for Greggs as bakery chain vows not to shrink size of sausage rolls August 2, 2022 Sausage roll maker Greggs has posted flat profit after the return of pre-pandemic tax rates and heightened costs. In half-year results, the bakery chain posted pre-tax profit of £55.8m, up just slightly from the £55.5m posted in the first half of 2021. The London-listed chain said this was reflective of the re-introduction of business rates, [...]
Greggs’ plans to sell hot food into early hours at Leicester Sq flagship thwarted by council August 1, 2022 Greggs’ plans to sell hot food into the early hours of the morning at its Leicester Square flagship site have been knocked back. Westminster City Council blocked an application for the West End store to sell hot food – such as its chicken goujons – and hot drinks until 5am, citing concerns of the Met [...]
Sausage roll-ing in to town: Greggs and Primark launch new fashion range with ‘snackfest’ tour July 25, 2022 Greggs and Primark are teaming up for a new clothing range, which will be launched on a ‘snackfest’ UK bus tour. The kings of sausage rolls and low cost clothes announced the new range on social media this morning. Gregs and Primark, which collaborated on a similar project earlier in the year, announced the range [...]
Greggs opens 49 new shops after sales of chicken goujons soar May 16, 2022 Sausage roll seller Greggs has seen shares dip after admitting city sales still lag behind the rest of its sites. Although the bakery chain said it had had a “good” start to 2022 on Monday, shares were down some 2.8 per cent in the afternoon. The firm has been reshaping its portfolio of stores to [...]
Greggs and Primark roll out fashion range together February 8, 2022 Bakery chain Greggs has announced it is collaborating with Primark to launch a limited-edition fashion collection. A range of 11 clothing items will launch across 60 Primark stores from 19 February , with clothes branding the Greggs logo and slogans such as “It’s a pastry thing.” The two high street names will open an appointment-only [...]
Two CEO success stories should put nonsense comparison to bed January 7, 2022 Today marks what unions and one particular think tank term ‘high pay day.’ It’s the day at which an average FTSE 100 CEO has earned the equivalent of the whole-year earnings of the so-called average worker. As ever, the comparison is facile, the implication idiotic, and it is deserving of no more than these few [...]
New CEO for Greggs as sales slow at its 2,181 stores with inflation and supply chain issues hitting the sector hard January 6, 2022 Greggs has revealed sales continue to rise at its 2,181 stores although bosses said more recent Covid restrictions led to sales growth easing in December. The company also said rising inflation and supply chain issues facing the sector continue to hit but added it enjoyed strong sales of Christmas products, including 6.7m mince pies. Separately, [...]