The Latest Breaking News from Greggs

Robert Moorhead had been due to join the bakery chain’s board in October.

Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector

The high street fast-food giants say it is the ‘mash-up the nation’s been craving’

First outlet selling hot pizza, ready meals and home essentials will open in Solihull on Thursday

Bakery chain reports 14% drop in first-half profit as shoppers shun sausage rolls and pastries in hot weather

The boss of the high street bakery chain said that many consumers are ‘saving rather than spending’.

Boss said it had been a “challenging market” during the first half with consumers “saving not spending.”

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COMMENT: The popular high-street bakery now sells a million sausage rolls every day – but such wild success has caused alarm among key investors, who believe Greggs may be fast reaching saturation point. Can it learn the lessons of the Seattle coffee chain before it also overreaches itself, asks James…