Costa Coffee
| Costa Coffee | |
| Formerly | C. B. Costa Bros. Coffee Co. Limited (1976–1997)[1] |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Coffee shop |
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| Headquarters | Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom |
Number of locations | 4,000 (2025) |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Philippe Schaillee (CEO) |
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| Revenue | £1.168 billion (2016)[2] |
| £153 million (2016)[2] | |
Number of employees | 17,809 (2022) |
| Parent | The Coca-Cola Company (2019–present) |
| Website | costa |
Costa Limited,[1] trading as Costa Coffee, is a coffeehouse chain with headquarters in Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. It operates in the United Kingdom and 37 other countries.
Costa Coffee was founded in London in 1971 by the Bruno and Sergio Costa brothers 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 over 4,000 stores across 31 countries and 18,412 employees.[3] The business has over 2,700 UK & Ireland restaurants, over 14,200 Costa Express vending facilities and a further 1,300 outlets overseas, including 460 in China.[2][4][5]
Costa is the second largest coffeehouse chain in the world, and the largest in the UK.[6][7]
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- ^ "About us - Costa Coffee Professional | Costa Coffee".
- ^ 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.