Food & Drug Retailers
Greggs is a UK food-on-the-go retailer best known for sausage rolls, bakery products, sandwiches, hot food, coffee and breakfast. It operates a large nationwide store estate supported by its own manufacturing and distribution network.
Retail food-to-go, bakery and hot-food sales, store expansion, delivery and digital ordering, manufacturing, logistics and development of new products and dayparts.
The United Kingdom, with shops in high streets, retail parks, transport locations, supermarkets and roadside sites serving a broad mass-market customer base.
Like-for-like sales, new shop openings, customer traffic, pricing, food and wage costs, evening and delivery sales, manufacturing capacity and successful menu innovation.
Consumer weakness, food and labour inflation, intense food-to-go competition, weather disruption, supply-chain problems, execution of rapid store expansion and pressure on operating margins.
29 July 2026: first-half sales rose 7.2% to £1.10bn and operating profit increased 22.9% to £86.5m. Greggs maintained its expansion programme and raised the interim dividend to 19p.
Pays interim and final dividends. The 2025 final dividend of 50p went ex-dividend on 30 April 2026 and was paid on 29 May. The 2026 interim dividend is 19p, expected to go ex-dividend on 10 September and be paid on 9 October.
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