Greggs’ sales are continuing to grow but at a slower rate than previously, the company has announced.

The Newcastle-based bakery chain has released a trading update from the third quarter of its 2025 financial year in which total sales were up 6.1%. Sales for the year-to-date were up 6.7%.

On a like-for-like basis, excluding the impact of new shop openings, sales were up 1.5% in the third quarter and 2.2% year-to-date. But Greggs said it had seen improved trading in August and September after the hot weather in July put some people off its products.

Greggs said that it had opened 57 more stores than previously and was expecting to add around 120 to its estate this year. That is below previous expectations, though it insisted it had a “strong pipeline” of new sites for the rest of the ye

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