Trading Statement

Greggs PLC
12 January 2007

                                                                             

                                                                 12 January 2007



                                   GREGGS plc

                                 TRADING UPDATE


Greggs is the UK's leading retailer specialising in sandwiches, savouries and
other bakery products, with a particular focus on takeaway food and catering. It
has over 1,300 retail outlets throughout the UK, trading under the Greggs and
Bakers Oven brands.

Group Managing Director Sir Michael Darrington reports: "I am pleased to confirm
that the more positive sales trend noted in our last trading update on 18
December continued to the end of the year, in line with our expectations.
Like-for-like sales in the last three weeks of our financial year to 30 December
2006 rose by 3.3 per cent. In consequence, like-for-like sales over the second
half as a whole increased by 0.9 per cent.

"Like-for-like sales in the first week of 2007 showed a similar increase to
those over the Christmas period.

"During the year we opened 48 new shops and closed 31, a higher than usual
number of closures reflecting the rationalisation of Bakers Oven in the North
and Scotland. This gave us a net addition of 17 units and a total of 1,336 at 30
December 2006.

"The preliminary announcement of our 2006 results is scheduled for Friday, 9
March 2007."


ENQUIRIES:
Greggs plc                            Hudson Sandler
Richard Hutton, Finance Director      Jessica Rouleau / Michael Sandler
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