Greggs PLC

Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Apr 3, 2018

THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. If you are in any doubt as to the action you should take, you should immediately consult your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other independent professional adviser duly authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

If you have sold or otherwise transferred all of your shares in Greggs plc, please send this document, together with the accompanying documents, as soon as possible to the purchaser or transferee or to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for delivery to the purchaser or transferee.

(Registered in England and Wales with registered number 502851)

Registered office: Greggs House Quorum Business Park Benton Road Newcastle upon Tyne

NE12 8BU 3 April 2018

Dear Shareholder

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)

I enclose a formal notice of our Annual General Meeting, which is to be held at The Marriott Gosforth Park Hotel, High Gosforth Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 5HN on Wednesday 9 May 2018 at 11:30 a.m.

I hope to see as many of you as possible at the AGM, which is the main opportunity each year for the Board to engage with individual shareholders, answer your questions and to listen to your views.

Resolutions to be determined by poll

As is now established practice, all resolutions will be determined by poll vote, rather than on a show of hands. This is in accordance with best practice, and will result in a more accurate reflection of the views of shareholders by ensuring that every vote is recognised, including those of shareholders who are unable to attend the meeting but who appoint a proxy. On a poll, every shareholder has one vote for every share held.

Election and re-election of Directors

In accordance with the UK Corporate Governance Code, all of the Directors will, in turn, resign as a Director and offer themselves for re-election.

I am pleased to confirm that, following evaluation and recommendation from the Nominations Committee, we are satisfied that each of the Directors seeking election or re-election at the meeting makes a valuable contribution to our discussions, has the best interests of the Company at heart, and continue to perform effectively and demonstrate commitment to the role, including commitment of time for Board and Committee meeting and any other required duties.

Forms of proxy

If you are unable to attend the AGM, a proxy form is enclosed for you to complete (according to the instructions printed on it) and send to the Company's Registrars, Link Asset Services, 34 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 4TU to be received by 11.30 a.m. on Friday 4 May 2018. Completion and submission of the proxy form will not prevent you from attending and voting at the meeting if you subsequently find that you are able to do so. CREST Members can cast their votes using CREST electronic proxy voting (further details of which are set out in note 9 on page 5 of this document).

Recommendation

Your Directors believe that all the resolutions in the enclosed notice of Annual General Meeting are in the best interests of the Company and are most likely to promote the success of the Company for the benefit of its shareholders as a whole. Accordingly, they unanimously recommend that you vote in favour of each resolution, as they intend to do in respect of their own shareholdings in the Company.

Yours faithfully

Ian Durant

Chairman

GREGGS plc (Registered in England and Wales with registered number 502851)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Greggs plc ("the Company") will be held at The Marriott Gosforth Park Hotel, High Gosforth Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 5HN on Wednesday 9 May 2018 at 11:30 a.m. for the following purposes:

Ordinary Business

• 1. To receive the accounts for the financial year ended 30 December 2017 together with the Reports of the Directors and of the Auditors thereon.
• 1. To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditor to the Company.
• 1. To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors of the Company.
• 1. To declare a final dividend for the financial year ended 30 December 2017 of 22.0p per ordinary share of 2p in the capital of the Company, to be paid on 18 May 2018 to Members whose names appear on the register of members in respect of such shares at the close of business on 20 April 2018.
• 1. To re-elect Mr I Durant as a Director.
• 1. To re-elect Mr R Whiteside as a Director.
• 1. To re-elect Mr R Hutton as a Director.
• 1. To re-elect Mrs A Kirkby as a Director.
• 1. To re-elect Dr H Ganczakowski as a Director.
• 1. To re-elect Mr P McPhillips as a Director.
• 1. To re-elect Ms S Turner as a Director.
• 1. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 30 December 2017.

To transact any other ordinary business of the Company.

Special Business

As special business, to consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions, which will be proposed as to resolution 13 as an Ordinary Resolution and as to resolutions 14 to 16 (inclusive) as Special Resolutions:

1. THAT, subject to and in accordance with Article 15.1 of the Articles of Association of the Company, the Directors be generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance with section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "2006 Act") to allot shares in the Company or to grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares in the Company ("Rights") up to an aggregate nominal amount of £674,000 provided that this authority shall, unless renewed, varied or revoked by the Company, expire on 8 August 2019 or, if earlier, the date of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company save that the Company may, before such expiry, make offers or agreements which would or might require shares to be allotted or Rights to be granted and the Directors may allot shares or grant Rights in pursuance of such offer or agreement notwithstanding that the authority conferred by this resolution has expired.

This resolution revokes and replaces all unexercised authorities previously granted to the Directors in accordance with section 80 of the Companies Act 1985 or section 551 of the 2006 Act to allot shares or grant Rights but without prejudice to any allotment of shares or grant of Rights already made, offered or agreed to be made pursuant to such authorities.

• 1. THAT, subject to the passing of resolution 13 set out in the notice of this meeting, the Directors be given the general power in accordance with section 570 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "2006 Act") to allot equity securities (as defined by section 560 of the 2006 Act) for cash, either pursuant to the authority conferred by resolution 13 set out in the notice of this meeting or by way of a sale of treasury shares, as if section 561(1) of the 2006 Act did not apply to any such allotment, provided that this power shall be limited to the allotment of equity securities and the sale of treasury shares:
• 1. in connection with an offer by way of a rights issue:
• (a) to the holders of ordinary shares in proportion (as nearly as may be practicable) to their respective holdings; and

(b) to holders of other equity securities as required by the rights of those securities or as the Directors otherwise consider necessary,

but subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient in relation to treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal or practical problems in or under the laws of any territory or the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange; and

1. (otherwise than pursuant to paragraph 1 above) up to an aggregate nominal amount of £101,000.

The power granted by this resolution will expire on 8 August 2019 or, if earlier, the conclusion of the Company's next Annual General Meeting (unless renewed, varied or revoked by the Company prior to or on such date) save that the Company may, before such expiry make offers or agreements which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of any such offer or agreement notwithstanding that the power conferred by this resolution has expired.

This resolution revokes and replaces all unexercised powers previously granted to the Directors to allot equity securities as if either section 89(1) of the Companies Act 1985 or section 561(1) of the 2006 Act did not apply but without prejudice to any allotment of equity securities already made or agreed to be made pursuant to such authorities.

• 1. That the Company be generally and unconditionally authorised, pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006 ("2006 Act"), to make market purchases (as defined in section 693(4) of the 2006 Act) of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") up to an aggregate nominal amount of £202,000 on such terms and in such manner as the Directors of the Company may from time to time determine, provided that:
• (a) the amount paid for each Ordinary Share (exclusive of expenses) shall not be more than five per cent above the average of the middle market quotation for an Ordinary Share as derived from the Daily Official List of London Stock Exchange plc for the five business days before the date on which the contract for the purchase is made and, in any event, not less than the nominal value of each Ordinary Share; and
• (b) the authority herein contained shall expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or on 8 August 2019, whichever is earlier, provided that the Company may, before such expiry, make a contract to purchase its own shares which would or might be executed wholly or partly after such expiry, and the Company may make a purchase of its own shares in pursuance of such contract as if the authority hereby conferred had not expired.
• 1. That a general meeting of the Company, other than an Annual General Meeting, may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice, provided that this authority shall expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company.

Dated: 3 April 2018

Registered Office: By Order of the Board Greggs House Quorum Business Park Benton Road Jonathan D Jowett Newcastle upon Tyne Company Secretary NE12 8BU

Notes:

Appointment of Proxies

• 1. If you are a member of the Company at the time set out in note 11 below, you are entitled to appoint a proxy to exercise all or any of your rights to attend, speak and vote at the Annual General Meeting and you should have received a proxy form with this notice of meeting. If you do not have a proxy form and believe that you should have one, or if you require additional forms, please contact the Company's Registrars, Link Asset Services on 0871 664 0300 (calls cost 12p per minute plus network extras. Lines are open 9.00 a.m. – 5.30 p.m. Monday-Friday) or, if calling from outside the UK, on +44 371 664 0300. You can only appoint a proxy using the procedures set out in these notes and the notes to the proxy form.
• 1. If you are not a member of the Company but you have been nominated by a member of the Company to enjoy information rights, you do not have a right to appoint any proxies under the procedures set out in this "Appointment of proxies" section. Please read the "Nominated persons" section below.
• 1. A proxy does not need to be a member of the Company but must attend the Annual General Meeting to represent you. Details of how to appoint the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting or another person as your proxy using the proxy form are set out in the notes on that proxy form. If you wish your proxy to speak on your behalf at the Annual General Meeting you will need to appoint your own choice of proxy (not the Chairman) and give your instructions directly to them.
• 1. You may appoint more than one proxy, provided that each proxy is appointed to exercise rights attached to different shares. You may not appoint more than one proxy to exercise rights attached to any one share. To appoint more than one proxy, you may photocopy the enclosed proxy form.
• 1. Appointment of a proxy does not preclude you from attending the Annual General Meeting and voting in person. If you have appointed a proxy and attend the Annual General Meeting in person, your proxy appointment will automatically be terminated.
• 1. The notes to the proxy form explain how to direct your proxy how to vote on each resolution or withhold their vote. A vote withheld is not a vote in law, which means that the vote will not be counted in the calculation of votes for or against the resolution. If you either select the "Discretionary" option or if no voting indication is given, your proxy will vote or abstain from voting at his or her discretion. Your proxy will vote (or abstain from voting) as he or she thinks fit in relation to any other matter which is put before the Annual General Meeting or any adjournment thereof.

Appointment of proxy using hard copy proxy form

• 1. To appoint a proxy using the proxy form, the form must be:
• completed and signed;
• sent or delivered to the Company's Registrars, Link Asset Services, 34 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 4TU; and
• received by the Company's Registrars no later than 11.30 a.m. on Friday 4 May 2018 or, if this Annual General Meeting is adjourned, not less than 48 hours before the time of the adjourned meeting.

In the case of a member which is a company, the proxy form must be executed under its common seal or signed on its behalf by an officer of the company or an attorney for the company.

Any power of attorney or any other authority under which the proxy form is signed (or a duly certified copy of such power or authority) must be included with the proxy form.

Electronic appointment of proxies

1. As an alternative to completing the hard-copy proxy form, you can appoint a proxy electronically by visiting www.greggsshares.co.uk. You will require your user name and password in order to log in and vote. If you have forgotten your user name or password, you can request a reminder via the shareholder portal. If you haven't previously registered to use to the portal, you will require your investor code ("IVC") which can be found on your proxy form. For an electronic proxy appointment to be valid, your appointment must be received by the Company's Registrars, Link Asset Services no later than 11.30 a.m. on Friday 4 May 2018.

Appointment of proxies through CREST

1. CREST members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies by utilising the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so for the Annual General Meeting and any adjournment(s) of it by using the procedures described in the CREST Manual (available from https://www.euroclear.com/site/public/EUI). CREST Personal Members or other CREST sponsored members, and those CREST members who have appointed a voting service provider(s), should refer to their CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s), who will be able to take the appropriate action on their behalf.

In order for a proxy appointment made by means of CREST to be valid, the appropriate CREST message (a CREST Proxy Instruction) must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited's ("EUI") specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST Manual. The message must be transmitted so as to be received by the issuer's agent (ID RAI0) by the latest time for receipt of proxy appointments specified in note 8 above. For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the timestamp applied to the message by the CREST Applications Host) from which the issuer's agent is able to retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed by CREST.

CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service providers should note that EUI does not make available special procedures in CREST for any particular messages. Normal system timings and limitations will therefore apply in relation to the input of CREST Proxy Instructions. It is the responsibility of the CREST member concerned to take (or, if the CREST member is a CREST personal member or sponsored member or has appointed a voting service provider(s), to procure that his CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) take(s)) such action as shall be necessary to ensure that a message is transmitted by means of the CREST system by any particular time. In this connection, CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service providers are referred, in particular, to those sections of the CREST Manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST system and timings.

The Company may treat as invalid a CREST Proxy Instruction in the circumstances set out in Regulation 35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001.

Appointment of proxy by joint members

1. In the case of joint holders, where more than one of the joint holders purports to appoint a proxy, only the appointment submitted by the most senior holder will be accepted. Seniority is determined by the order in which the names of the joint holders appear in the Company's register of members in respect of the joint holding (the first-named being the most senior).

Entitlement to attend and vote

1. Only those members registered on the Company's register of members at close of business on Friday 4 May 2018 or, if this Annual General Meeting is adjourned, at close of business two days prior to the adjourned meeting, shall be entitled to attend and vote at the meeting.

Website giving information in relation to the Annual General Meeting

1. Information regarding the Annual General Meeting, including the information required by section 311A of the Companies Act 2006, is available from http://corporate.greggs.co.uk

Corporate representatives

1. A corporation which is a member can appoint one or more corporate representatives who may exercise, on its behalf, all its powers as a member provided that no more than one corporate representative exercises powers over the same share.

Issued shares and total voting rights

1. As at the last business day prior to the publication of this notice, the Company's issued share capital comprised 101,155,901 ordinary shares of 2p each. Each ordinary share carries the right to one vote at a general meeting of the Company and, therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company as at the last business day prior to the publication of this notice is 101,155,901.

The website referred to in note 12 will include information on the number of shares and voting rights.

Questions at the Meeting

• 1. Under section 319A of the Companies Act 2006, the Company must answer any question you ask relating to the business being dealt with at the Annual General Meeting unless:
• answering the question would interfere unduly with the preparation for the meeting or involve the disclosure of confidential information;
• the answer has already been given on a website in the form of an answer to a question; or
• it is undesirable, in the interests of the Company or the good order of the meeting, that the question be answered.

Website publication of audit concerns

1. Pursuant to Chapter 5 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006 (sections 527 to 531), where requested by a members or members meeting the qualification criteria set out at note 17 below, the Company must publish on its website, a statement setting out any matter that such member(s) propose to raise at the Annual General Meeting relating to the audit of the Company's accounts (including the auditor's report and the conduct of the audit) that are to be laid before the meeting.

Where the Company is required to publish such a statement on its website:

• it may not require the member(s) making the request to pay any expenses incurred by the Company in complying with the request;
• it must forward the statement to the Company's auditors no later than the time the statement is made available on the Company's website; and
• the statement may be dealt with as part of the business of the meeting.

The request:

• may be in hard copy form or in electronic form (see note 18 below);
• either set out the statement in full or, if supporting a statement sent by another member, clearly identify the statement which is being supported;
• must be authenticated by the person or persons making it (see note 18 below); and
• be received by the Company at least one week before the meeting.

Members' qualification criteria

• 1. In order to be able to exercise the members' right to require the Company to publish audit concerns (see note 16), the relevant request must be made by:
• a member or members having a right to vote at the Annual General Meeting and holding at least 5% of total voting rights of the Company; or
• at least 100 members having a right to vote at the Annual General Meeting and holding, on average, at least £100 of paid up share capital.

For information on voting rights, including the total number of voting rights, see note 14 above and the website referred to in note 12.

Submission of hard copy and electronic requests and authentication requirements

• 1. Where a member or members wishes to request the Company to publish audit concerns (see note 16), such request be must be made in accordance with one of the following ways:
• in the case of a request made in hard copy form, such request must be signed by a shareholder(s), state such shareholder(s) full name(s) and address and sent to the Company Secretary at Greggs plc, Greggs House, Quorum Business Park, Benton Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE12 8BU.
• in the case of a request made in electronic form, such request must state such shareholder(s) full name(s) and address and sent to investorrelations@greggs.co.uk

Nominated persons

1. If you are a person who has been nominated under section 146 of the Companies Act 2006 to enjoy information rights ("Nominated Person") you may have a right under an agreement between you and the member ("Relevant Member") of the Company who has nominated you to have information rights, to be appointed or to have someone else appointed as a proxy for the Annual General Meeting.

If you either do not have such a right or if you have such a right but do not wish to exercise it, you may have a right under an agreement between you and the Relevant Member to give instructions to the Relevant Member as to the exercise of voting rights.

Your main point of contact in terms of your investment in the Company remains the Relevant Member (or, perhaps, your custodian or broker) and you should continue to contact them (and not the Company) regarding any changes or queries relating to your personal details and your interest in the Company (including any administrative matters). The only exception to this is where the Company expressly requests a response from you.

Biographical details

1. Biographical details and Committee memberships of each Director who is being proposed for re-election by members are set out in the Annual Report and Accounts posted to members at the same time as this circular and available on the Company's website at http://corporate.greggs.co.uk

Documents on display

• 1. The following documents will be available for inspection at the Company's registered office from the date of this notice until the time of the Annual General Meeting and at the meeting venue itself for at least 15 minutes prior to the meeting until the end of the meeting:
• copies of the service contracts of Executive Directors of the Company;
• copies of the letters of appointment of the Non-Executive Directors of the Company; and
• copies of the deeds of indemnity for Executive and Non-Executive Directors of the Company.

Communication

1. Except as provided above, members who have general queries about the Annual General Meeting should contact the Company Secretary at Greggs plc, Greggs House, Quorum Business Park, Benton Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE12 8BU or on 0191 281 7721 (no other methods of communication will be accepted).

You may not use any electronic address provided either:

• in this notice of Annual General Meeting; or
• any related documents (including the Chairman's letter and proxy form),

to communicate with the Company for any purposes other than those expressly stated.

Explanatory Notes:

Ordinary Business

Section 439 of the Companies Act 2006 requires quoted companies, at each general meeting at which statutory accounts are to be laid, to propose an ordinary resolution approving the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year. Resolution 12 will be proposed as an ordinary resolution for this purpose.

Special Business

The Companies Act 2006 provides that Directors shall only allot unissued shares with the authority of shareholders in general meeting. Resolution 13 will be proposed as an Ordinary Resolution for the renewal of the Directors' general authority to allot shares up to an aggregate nominal amount of £674,000, representing approximately one third of the current issued share capital of the Company. The Directors have no present intention of exercising this authority and the authority will, unless renewed, varied or revoked by the Company, expire on 8 August 2019, or, if earlier the date of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company.

The Companies Act 2006 also provides that any allotment of new shares for cash must be made pro rata to individual shareholders' holdings, unless such provisions are disapplied under section 570 of the Companies Act 2006. Resolution 14 will be proposed as a Special Resolution for the renewal of the Directors' authority to allot equity securities for cash, without first offering them to shareholders pro rata to their holdings. This authority facilitates issues made by way of rights to shareholders which are not strictly in accordance with section 561(1) of the Companies Act 2006, and authorises other allotments of up to a maximum aggregate nominal amount of £101,000, representing approximately 5 per cent of the current issued share capital of the Company. This authority also allows the Directors, within the same aggregate limit, to sell for cash shares that may be held by the Company in treasury (the Company does not currently hold any such shares). The Directors have no present intention of exercising this authority and In line with best practice, the Company has not issued more than 7.5% of its issued share capital for cash on a non-pro rata basis over the last three years.

Resolution 15 will be proposed as a Special Resolution for the renewal of the Company's authority to purchase its own shares in the market up to an aggregate nominal amount of £202,000, representing approximately 10 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company. The price payable shall not be more than 5 per cent above the average price of the middle market quotation as derived from the Daily Official List of London Stock Exchange plc for the Ordinary Shares for the five business days before the purchase is made and in any event not less than the nominal value of each Ordinary Share. It is the Directors' intention only to exercise the authority to purchase the Company's shares where it would increase the earnings per share of those Ordinary Shares that are not re-purchased. The Company intends either to cancel such shares or to hold them in treasury. This power will only be used if the Directors consider that to do so would be in the best interests of shareholders generally. The total number of warrants and options to subscribe for equity shares that are currently outstanding is 2,893,489, which represents approximately 2.9% of the current issued share capital of the Company. If the full authority to buyback shares (i.e. the existing authority and that being sought under Resolution 15 is used this would represent approximately 3.2% of the current issued share capital of the Company.

Resolution 16 will be proposed as a Special Resolution to allow the Company to continue to hold general meetings on 14 clear days' notice. The Company is currently able to call general meetings other than Annual General Meetings on 14 clear days' notice in accordance with its Articles of Association. However, the Companies (Shareholders' Rights) Regulations 2009 (the "Regulations"), which came into force on 3 August 2009, increased the required notice period for all general meetings to 21 days, which overrides the authority provided for in the Articles of Association. The Company is able to reserve the authority to call general meetings (other than the Annual General Meeting) on 14 clear days' notice, provided shareholders have approved this by passing a resolution annually at each Annual General Meeting and the Company has met the requirements for electronic voting under the Regulations. The Company does not intend to call general meetings on 14 clear days' notice as a matter of routine but would like to retain the flexibility to do so where the Directors believe that it is in the best interests of the Company, for example, where the Directors believe there is a financial or operational advantage which outweighs the benefit to shareholders of a longer notice period.