Costa Coffee

Costa Limited, trading as Costa Coffee, is a British coffeehouse chain with headquarters in Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, England. It operates in the United Kingdom and 37 other countries. 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. 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. As of 2016, the business had over 2,700 cafes in the UK and Ireland, over 14,200 Costa Express vending facilities and a further 1,300 outlets overseas, including 460 in China. Costa is the second largest coffeehouse chain in the world, and the second largest in the UK.