Greggs heats up as chicken roll proves a success

Greggs PLC (LSE:GRG) shares climbed 4.1% to 1,585p on Tuesday morning, after the Tyneside-headquartered bakery chain reported an improvement in sales in recent weeks. Like-for-like sales came in at 2.5% over the first 19 weeks of the year, an improvement from the 1.6% disclosed after nine weeks, thanks to an acceleration to 3.3% in the last 10 weeks.