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Costa Coffee

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Costa Coffee is a coffeehouse chain founded in London in 1971 by brothers Bruno and Sergio Costa as a coffee roastery that expanded into retail cafes, later owned by Whitbread from 1995 before The Coca-Cola Company acquired it in January 2019 for 4.9 billion dollars. Headquartered in Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, England, Costa operates roughly 4,000 stores across 38 countries and describes itself as the largest coffeehouse chain in the United Kingdom and the second largest in the world.

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1971 1
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  • Infobox: type
    Subsidiary
  • Lead section
    Costa Coffee was founded in London in 1971 by the brothers Bruno and Sergio Costa as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and specialist Italian coffee shops.
  • Operates In: Coffee Industry, Infobox: industry
    Coffee shop
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Wikidata: Costa Coffee
Wikidata Q608845, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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