THE British Army could march on a stomach filled with Greggs pasties and sausage rolls, if a new trial for the baker works out.
Greggs, which is based in Newcastle, has launched a 12-week trial with the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (Naafi), the armed forces caterer, that will see it supply frozen savouries to the British military base in Gutersloh, Germany.
Naafi currently serves Britain's military in Afghanistan, Ascension, Brunei, Germany, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands and Northern Ireland, as well as on board Royal Navy ships.
In the trial, the bakery will supply a range of seven frozen savouries to troops in the German base, which will be baked throughout the day by Greggs-trained Naafi personnel and displayed in a Greggs branded savoury counter.
Greggs' chief executive, Kennedy McMeikan, 47, said if the trial was deemed a success it could be rolled out across the globe.
Stranraer-born Mr McMeikan is a Royal Navy veteran of the 1982 Falklands War and previously held executive posts with both Tesco and Sainsbury's, before taking on his current role in 2008.
A vocal opponent to George Osborne's much-derided pasty tax earlier this year, he said the Government was "out of touch" about the tough economic climate most people faced.
The chain currently services more than six mil-lion customers a week with sandwiches, savouries, bread, cakes and pastries from about 1600 UK stores.
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