Costa Coffee news and analysis – Page 5
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NewsCoca-Cola agrees £3.9bn deal to buy Costa Coffee
Whitbread has agreed to sell its Costa Coffee chain to Coca-Cola for an enterprise value of £3.9bn.
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Comment & OpinionCosta whips up coffee shop couture
Designer Kate Tabor has created gowns for the chain imitating the appearance of whipped milk
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NewsCosta rolls out Chatty Café scheme to battle loneliness
More than 300 Costa branches will incorporate the scheme
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NewsCosta Coffee links with Flux to trial mobile rewards scheme
Customers can get digitised rewards stamps automatically as part of any purchase
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NewsWhitbread blames high street woes for Costa Coffee sales fall
Whitbread said a decline in footfall in traditional shopping locations dragged Costa’s like-for-like sales back 2% in its first quarter.
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NewsMedia Bites 28 June: John Lewis/Waitrose, Premier Foods, Costa Coffee
John Lewis Partnership has warned that half-year profits will be “close to zero” as it prepares to invest heavily in services and technology.
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NewsCity snapshot: Costa Q1 like-for-likes slide ahead of demerger
Whitbread owned Costa Coffee grew its first quarter sales by 5.2% ahead of its planned demerger, but like-for-like sales fell 2% reflecting the slump on UK high streets. Plus, butchery group Crawshaw suffers 12.9% like-for-like collapse in 20 weeks to 17 June and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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NewsMedia Bites 8 June: Costa Coffee, M&S, Poundworld
Whitbread has mooted the possibility that it could sell its Costa Coffee or Premier Inn businesses rather than pursue its proposal to demerge its coffee business within the next two years.
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NewsCosta Coffee defends OOH sector sugar reduction progress
Health campaigners have attacked the OOH sector over high levels of sugar
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InterviewsBig Interview: Costa MD Jason Cotta on consciously uncoupling from Whitbread
When asked his thoughts on Costa’s split from Whitbread, MD Jason Cotta is as cool as an iced latte
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NewsMedia Bites 23 May: Tesco, Sainsbury's, Costa Coffee
Numerous papers are this morning covering the news that Tesco will be closing its non-food website Tesco Direct, putting around 500 jobs at risk.
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NewsCity reacts as Whitbread announces Costa spin-off
One of the City’s longest-running sagas was finally settled this week
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NewsCosta and Co-op in landmark Coronation Street deal with ITV
The move has been dubbed ’the biggest product placement partnership on British TV’
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NewsWhitbread announces Costa spin-off plan
Whitbread has announced its intention to demerge Costa following pressure from activist American investors.
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NewsCosta aims to recycle 500 million cups by 2020
The figure represents a fifth of the 2.5 billion takeaway coffee cups consumed in the UK each year
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NewsWhitbread under pressure to spin off Costa Coffee
Whitbread under pressure from US investor to spin off Costa Coffee chain
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NewsCosta trials lunchtime meal deal, including coffee
The new coffee-plus menu is being trialled at over 1,500 UK stores and offers a toastie, snack and hot drink
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NewsWaitrose Foundation invests in Costa Rican pineapple supplier
The Waitrose Foundation currently invests in farm workers’ community projects in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa
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NewsMedia Bites 19 January: Steinhoff, FeverTree, ABF, Costa
Steinhoff International, the scandal-hit South African retail conglomerate, is in talks with banks to secure additional financing to keep the company afloat.
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NewsPret a Manger and Costa to ditch plastic straws
The moves follow the government’s announcement it intends to eliminate the UK’s plastic waste by 2042…