Greggs plans to close its Enfield Bakery in Brimsdown, one of four factories in a change that puts about 740 jobs at risk. Its Enfield depot stays open.

Greggs has proposed closing its bakery in Enfield. It is one of four manufacturing sites the company wants to shut, in changes that could make about 740 jobs redundant across the country over two and a half years.

The company announced the plan on Wednesday 30 September, alongside its trading update for the summer. It says no final decision has been made, and that a consultation with staff and their unions will start shortly. (Greggs, 30 September 2026)

What Greggs has proposed

The Enfield site is the company’s Enfield Bakery at 87 Millmarsh Lane, in the Brimsdown industrial area. That is the address Greggs gives for it in its own job adverts. (Greggs careers)

Greggs’ statement sets out these changes:

  • closing four manufacturing sites: Enfield, North Lakes near Penrith, Pettigrews in Kelso and Seaham in County Durham
  • keeping its distribution operations at Enfield, which “would remain unchanged”
  • ending manufacturing at Treforest in south Wales, which would stay open as a distribution centre
  • making fewer products at Clydesmill and Manchester, and stopping tinned bread at Gosforth
  • buying “a small number of products” from specialist suppliers instead of making them itself

If the plan goes ahead, Greggs would make its food at six sites: Clydesmill, Gosforth, Balliol, Leeds, Manchester and Derby. None of them is in London or the south east.

How many Enfield jobs

Greggs has not said. Its statement to the stock market gives one figure for the whole programme: “circa 740 roles” that may become redundant over two and a half years. It does not split that between the four factories, or say how many people work at the Enfield Bakery now. (Greggs Q3 trading update, via Investegate)

The company expects the changes to cost about £60 million, of which about £40 million is spending on equipment and buildings. It expects to save about £20 million a year in running costs once the programme is finished, with the savings arriving across 2028 and 2029.

Why Greggs says it is doing this

The business is not shrinking. The same update reported:

  • sales up 7.7% in the 13 weeks to 26 September
  • 2,796 shops trading, with 57 more opened than closed so far this year
  • new distribution centres being built in Derby and Kettering

Greggs says it reviewed where its manufacturing “should most effectively be located” to keep its prices down. Roisin Currie, the chief executive, said the proposals are “intended to strengthen our manufacturing network, improve efficiency and ensure we remain well placed for the future”.

What it means for you

If you work at the Enfield Bakery, nothing has been decided yet. Greggs says it will consult with trade unions and employee representatives “to refine and develop these proposals”, and that “all feedback received during consultation will be carefully considered”. The changes are spread over two and a half years, so any closure would not be immediate. The government’s guide to your rights if you are made redundant covers consultation, notice and redundancy pay.

If you work at the Enfield distribution depot, Greggs says that operation stays as it is.

If you buy from Greggs, the company says its shops are “unaffected by these proposed changes”. The borough’s Greggs shops are not part of this plan.

If you drive to Brimsdown, Millmarsh Lane is one of five roads there on a phased council closure for utility works that can run to late December; the details are on our Enfield roadworks page.