Costa Coffee

Costa Limited
Trade name	Costa Coffee
Formerly	C. B. Costa Bros. Coffee Co. Limited (1976–1997)
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Coffee shop
Founded	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)
Net income	£153 million (2016)
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]

^ ^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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^ "Whitbread" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
^ 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.

[CompaniesHouse-1] "COSTA LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". Companies House. 28 July 1976. Retrieved 13 August 2023.

[whitbread.co.uk-2] "Whitbread PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2015/16" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2017.

[:0-3] Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[4] "Whitbread" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.

[sold-5] Monaghan, Angela (31 August 2018). "Whitbread sells Costa Coffee to Coca-Cola for £3.9bn – business live". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 August 2018.

[beeb31au18-6] "Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn". BBC News. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.

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