Greggs

A hungry child can struggle to concentrate and learn. That's why, for 25 years, The Greggs Foundation has been committed to helping children start their day with a good breakfast. Thanks to Greggs customers and colleagues, our Spring Breakfast Club Appeal raised an incredible £150,000+ and our second appeal week of 2024 is now live and running from 25th to 31st August. You can help a child have a nutritious start to their day by: - Buying a Jammy Heart biscuit. Usually, 5p per biscuit sold goes to The Greggs Foundation, but this is increased to 10p during appeal week. - Donating 25p at tills in-shop, or on Greggs App orders during appeal week and all year-round. Learn more about how Greggs, our colleagues, customers and partners support building stronger, healthier communities here: https://lnkd.in/edcPFBk9

We are now in our fifth year as the official volunteer lunch provider of the AJ Bell Great Run Series [The Great Run Company]. We’re delighted to again celebrate the amazing work of the volunteers who make the series possible. As well as keeping the volunteers fuelled with Greggs goodies at each event, we have also been celebrating some of the unique moments that make the events so special. Click the link below to find out more about our competition winners from this year's summer events: https://lnkd.in/e5rFBcyX

We are proud to celebrate our 40th anniversary as a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange. To commemorate this momentous event, Roisin Currie, our Chief Executive, officially closed the market yesterday. Greggs floated on the LSE in 1984 as a business with just over 260 shops. We have since grown to a leading food-on-the-go retailer with over 2,500 shops in the UK and 32,000 employees. We’d like to say a big thank you to our colleagues, customers, and shareholders for their continued support over the years. To read more about the anniversary and watch a video showing four decades filled with flavour, visit: https://lnkd.in/eGqkzQnd

Today, we announced our Interim Results for the 26 weeks ended 29 June 2024. Our strong performance continued - delivering on our strategic growth plan and building on last year’s record performance. Total first-half sales were up 13.8%, with company-managed shop like-for-like sales up 7.4%. We opened 99 new shops, including 30 relocations and 25 with our franchise partners, with further openings through our partnerships with Tesco and Sainsbury’s, as well as extending our presence in London with a new shop at Embankment Station. To facilitate further expansion, we are moving ahead with plans for two brand new state-of-the-art facilities in the midlands and have secured our first site in Derby, which we expect to open in late 2026 and we recently announced our second site in Kettering which, subject to planning, should be operational in the first half of 2027. Our success is founded on the exceptional quality and value that Greggs offers to customers looking for food and drink on-the-go and the fast and friendly service delivered by our colleagues. In this video, Roisin Currie, our Chief Executive, summarises these and other key milestones we have reached so far in 2024: https://lnkd.in/eYGPfxGN

As a responsible business, we are committed to building stronger, healthier communities and are proud supporters of Business in the Community. You can hear below from Roisin, our Chief Executive, on how by sharing best practice and working collaboratively with other businesses, we can create wider positive impact for local communities.

In partnership with Tritax Symmetry, we're pleased to announce plans to deliver a new National Distribution Centre at Symmetry Park in Kettering, as we continue to invest in our supply chain capacity.   Building on our long-term plans to grow our estate to significantly more than 3,000 shops in the UK, this investment will enable us to directly supply both ambient and chilled products to our growing portfolio of shops.   Subject to planning, we expect the Centre to be operational in the first half of 2027. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eaZrxhCr

Last night, we were extremely proud to see our Chief Executive, Roisin Currie, win The Grocer’s Gold Award, The Grocer Cup. On the link below, Roisin dedicated the award to all our amazing colleagues who serve our customers everyday and help make Greggs the business it is today. Congratulations! https://lnkd.in/eQBh3jQh

Our Greggs Outlet shops not only help us to tackle food waste, they also enable us to support our local communities. We donate a share of the profits from these shops to our corporate charity, the Greggs Foundation, who work with a number of community organisations across the UK to help those who need it most. Watch the video below to find out more.

Each year, we donate at least one per cent of our profits to The Greggs Foundation, the corporate charity of Greggs plc. Our donation, along with support from our colleagues, customers and external partners enables the charity to invest over £4 million a year in a wide range of initiatives that improve the quality of life in our local communities. To read their 2023 Impact Report and learn more about the positive impact we all make, follow the link below.

In line with our plans to expand our manufacturing and logistics network, we are delighted to announce we have entered into a lease agreement for a new state-of-the-art frozen production and logistics facility at SmartParc SEGRO plc in Spondon, Derby.   The new site is expected to open in late 2026 and will provide us with additional capacity to serve up to 3,500 shops in the UK. It will include new sweet and savoury production lines, as well as logistics for frozen storage and fully automated robotic order picking and distribution solutions from Swisslog, one of the world’s leading logistics automation companies.   The new site has been designed with sustainability at its heart, including a shared Energy Centre (a centralised heating and cooling system that recycles heat from refrigeration plants across the estate), a rainwater harvesting system, PV panels and EV charging points.   To find out more, visit: https://lnkd.in/eifteqwS