Global Industry: Greggs PLC announces strong growth

Hamburg. (bm) British Greggs PLC, the leading bakery food-on-the-go retailer in the UK with more than 1’950 retail outlets throughout the country, provided an update on its business for its financial year 2018. Total sales grew by 7.2 percent and company-managed shop like-for-like sales grew by 2.9 percent. In the fourth quarter company-managed shop like-for-like sales grew by 5.2 percent. Other topics of the week:

• Greggs PLC: Fourth Quarter 2018 Trading Update [UK] Fri 01-11
• Recognition for French Pastry School Founders [US] Fri 01-11
• H.I.G. Capital Acquires Lipari Foods [US] Thu 01-10
• Capriotti’s: closes 2018 on a high note [US] Thu 01-10
• BreadBot Debuts at the Consumer Electronics Show [US] Wed 01-09
• Hain Celestial: Enhances Executive Leadership Team [US] Wed 01-09
• Corbion: opens state-of-the-art facility in Gorinchem [NL] Tue 01-08
• Almarai: sells all its UFHC-shares to SALIC [SA] Tue 01-08
• Coca-Cola: Completes Acquisition of Costa Coffee [US] Mon 01-07
• Middleby Corporation Acquires EVO America [US] Mon 01-07
• Whitbread PLC: completes sale of Costa to Coca-Cola [UK] Sat 01-05
• Almarai Company: appoints new Chief Executive [SA] Sat 01-05