{"id":1519855,"date":"2026-01-08T14:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/news\/greggs-opens-its-600th-franchise-outlet\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:33:29","slug":"greggs-opens-its-600th-franchise-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/news\/greggs-opens-its-600th-franchise-outlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Greggs opens its 600th franchise outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Greggs has opened its 600th franchise outlet in the UK as it seeks to grow the business to capitalise on increasing consumer demand.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>600th outlet <\/strong>is in Stonecross Services in <strong>Bexwell <\/strong>with franchise partner <strong>Motor Fuel Group (MFG)<\/strong>. Greggs currently has <strong>14 franchise partners<\/strong> across the UK, <strong>including 147<\/strong> on MFG sites, such as <strong>petrol stations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through <strong>franchising<\/strong>, Greggs is able to<strong> expand<\/strong> into smaller locations with high footfall, such as travel hubs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tony Rowson, <strong>property director at Greggs<\/strong>, said: \u201cReaching 600 franchise shops is a <strong>milestone achievement <\/strong>for Greggs and our partners. It underlines the <strong>continued success<\/strong> of our <a href=\"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/articles\/how-banks-see-franchising-in-the-uk-lower-risk-higher-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">franchise model <\/a>and the <strong>vital role<\/strong> our partners play in accelerating the expansion of our estate. As we close out 2025, we remain <strong>committed <\/strong>to ensuring Greggs is available in <strong>more of the locations<\/strong> our customers want us most.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of its <strong>growth strategy<\/strong> and also to access <strong>travel hubs <\/strong>and other small-space, high traffic sites, Greggs has also recently opened its first <strong>\u2018Bitesize Greggs\u2019 <\/strong>shop in Sevenoaks railway station.&nbsp; The \u2018Bitesize Greggs\u2019 will be rolled out alongside more traditional, larger Greggs shops.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greggs says it opened an average of <strong>four new shops<\/strong> per week in 2025 and added 57 new franchise outlets. Franchised sites account for <strong>over 20%<\/strong> of its total network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greggs has opened its 600th franchise outlet in the UK as it seeks to grow the business to capitalise on increasing consumer demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":669,"featured_media":1520134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"Greggs opens its 600th franchise outlet - L'Express Franchise","_seopress_titles_desc":"Greggs has opened its 600th franchise outlet in the UK as it seeks to grow the business to capitalise on increasing consumer demand.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"825","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"83865,303609,170385,90615,90785,1483634","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825,816],"tags":[3363,3364,3365,3366,3367,3347],"type-de-post":[2066],"hf_cat_post":[],"class_list":["post-1519855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-franchise-news","category-franchisors","tag-greggs","tag-opening","tag-outlet","tag-mfg","tag-tony-rowson","tag-franchise","type-de-post-articles-actualite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519855"},{"taxonomy":"type-de-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-de-post?post=1519855"},{"taxonomy":"hf_cat_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feb26.lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hf_cat_post?post=1519855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}