C. B. Costa Bros. Coffee Co. Limited (1976–1997)[1]
Company type
Subsidiary
Industry
Coffee shop
Founded
1971; 53 years ago (1971)
London, England
Founder
Sergio Costa
Headquarters
Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, England
Number of locations
3,883 (2018)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Philippe Schaillee (CEO)
Products
Coffee
Tea
Sandwiches
Sweet snacks
Iced drinks
Revenue
£1.168 billion (2016)[2]
Net income
£153 million (2016)[2]
Parent
The Coca-Cola Company
Website
costa.co.uk
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]
^ ab"COSTA LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". Companies House. 28 July 1976. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
^ abc"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.
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3,883 (2018)