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| Costa Coffee | |
| Formerly | C. B. Costa Bros. Coffee Co. Limited (1976–1997)[1] |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Coffee shop |
| Founded |
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| Founder | Sergio Costa |
| Headquarters | Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, England |
Number of locations |  3,883 (2018) |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Philippe Schaillee (CEO) |
| Products |
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| Revenue | £1.168 billion (2016)[2] |
| £153 million (2016)[2] | |
| Parent | The Coca-Cola Company |
| Website | costa |
Costa Limited,[1] trading as Costa Coffee, is a British coffeehouse chain with headquarters in Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, England.
Costa Coffee was founded in London in 1971 by Sergio Costa as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and specialist Italian coffee shops. It was acquired by Whitbread in 1995, then sold to The Coca-Cola Company in January 2019 in a deal worth $4.9 billion and has grown to 3,401 stores across 31 countries and 18,412 employees.[3] The business has 2,121 UK restaurants, over 6,000 Costa Express vending facilities and a further 1,280 outlets overseas, including 460 in China.[2][4]
Costa is the second largest coffeehouse chain in the world, and the largest in the UK.[5][6]
- ^ a b "COSTA LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". Companies House. 28 July 1976. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
- ^ a b c "Whitbread PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2015/16" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
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- ^ Monaghan, Angela (31 August 2018). "Whitbread sells Costa Coffee to Coca-Cola for £3.9bn – business live". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ^ "Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn". BBC News. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.