Costa Coffee

Costa Coffee is a British multinational coffeehouse company with its headquarters in Dunstable, Bedfordshire and a wholly owned subsidiary Whitbread. It is the second largest coffeehouse chain in the world and the largest in the United Kingdom. Costa Coffee was founded in London in 1971 by the Costa family as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and specialist Italian coffee shops. It has since grown to over 2,861 stores across 30 countries.