The Greggs Pledge - On a roll to 2025

We know that being a good business is more than just selling mouth-watering Sausage Rolls – that’s why we launched the Greggs Pledge in 2021. 

For those who don’t know, The Greggs Pledge is our commitment to ourselves, our customers and our communities to make the world a better place by 2025. It sets out ten commitments, built around three key areas: building stronger, healthier communities, making the planet safer and becoming a better business.  

As we reach the third year of The Greggs Pledge, we near the halfway point of our five year plan - and we’re proud to say, we’re well on our way to our 2025 sustainability goal. 

This is the progress we’ve made since we launched The Greggs Pledge in 2021: 

• Operating 789 Greggs Foundation Breakfast Clubs, feeding over 49,000 children every school day 

• Reduced manufacturing food waste by 10% (as a % of sales) and increased food redistribution of unsold food in shops by a further 10%  

• Opened the 30^th Greggs Outlet shop 

• Aligning to the goal of the Paris agreement- to limit global warming to 1.5c above pre-industrial levels, we set near-term science-based emissions reduction targets which have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) 

• Opened the first Eco-Shop and brought in the sustainability initiatives from the Eco-Shop into more than 250 of all shops

• Continued to achieve 32% of range being ‘Healthier Choice’ products 

• Achieved the National Equality Standard 

We’ve achieved some brilliant things so far, but we want to do more. By the end of this year we will have...

• Opened 850 Breakfast Clubs feeding 52,000 children every school day

• Reduced the amount of food waste created in manufacturing operations by an additional 10% and increased food redistribution by a further 10%

• Opened 38 Outlet shops- giving surplus food to those most in need

• 30% of all new products created going forwards will be healthier choices

• At least 98% of electricity usage will come from renewable sources and 30% of the gas used across operations will be from renewable sources

• 400 shops (17% of total estate) will feature Eco-Shop elements

• All own brand packaging will be more easily recycled

• Reporting our ethnicity pay gap and providing enhanced support for colleagues from an ethnic minority background to progress their career

• Complete the mapping of soy in animal feed to determine sustainability status  

• Further improve our chicken welfare standards, with 50% at less than or equal to 30kg/m² and the remainder at less than or equal to 38kg/m².

Want to find out more about The Greggs Pledge? You can read all about our commitments and progress here.