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John "Jack" Robson Gregg (1909–1964) was an English businessman, best known as the founder of Greggs, the United Kingdom's largest bakery chain. Biography. Gregg was born at Canada Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1909. At the age of 14 he joined the family egg and yeast business.
May 19, 2015 · In 1951, John Gregg, who had spent more than a decade delivering yeast to homes in Newcastle via bicycle so that housewives could bake their own bread, changed his business model. He started...
Aug 1, 2023 · The baked goods giant began life as a bakery on Tyneside, opened by John Gregg, who started out delivering fresh eggs and yeast to families on his bike. Greggs opened its first shop in Gosforth...
Aug 2, 2023 · The baked goods giant began life as a bakery on Tyneside, opened by John Gregg, who started out delivering fresh eggs and yeast to families on his bike. Greggs opened its first shop in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951.
In 1939, founder John “Jack” Gregg started touring Tyneside on his bike selling the ingredients for locals to do their own baking. He soon swapped the bike for a van, but then left wife Elsie...
Greggs plc is a British bakery chain. It specialises in savoury products such as bakes, sausage rolls, sandwiches and sweet items including doughnuts and vanilla slices. It is headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
Mar 15, 2019 · Becoming a billion-pound empire is something its Geordie founder, John Gregg, could never have imagined when he started delivering bread, yeast and eggs to working-class mining families in 1939.
