Coca-Cola wanted Costa everywhere Coke is sold, and ended up running more than 2,700 coffee shops

Business BagelChristian Maidman · 26 October 2026 at 08:00

Coca-Cola paid $5.1 billion for Costa in 2018 to sell coffee wherever Coke is sold, and Bloomberg's look back finds a UK coffee-shop chain, a failed sale and a company that says it is keeping it.
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