Costa opens up its Eco Pod
A Costa Coffee outlet in Telford has become the United Kingdom’s first ‘zero energy’ coffee shop and arguably one of the company’s best designed stores.
As technology advances along at an alarming rate, a number of businesses and domestic addresses have begun to adopt and utilise renewable energy sources for their own use. But after a few years in the design process, Costa, one of the UK’s largest coffee chains, has just opened up its first solar powered store.
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Costa to enter the Philippines with Robinsons
Earlier on this year we wrote about Costa Coffee’s ambition of further Southeast Asian expansion.
With strong footholds in the nearby countries of Thailand and Singapore, the Whitbread owned company announced back in July that they were “currently in the stage of doing market research” in relation to a hopeful move to the Philippines.
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Ban Costa Coffee in hospitals, says Doctor
In the unfortunate event that you are visiting a friend or relative in hospital, many people like to take the opportunity to grab a cup a coffee at some point during their stay. But a Bristolian consultant who specialises in weight loss has called for a complete ban of coffee shops which offers ‘sugar-laden’ drinks, cakes and confections from hospitals.
Dr Sally Norton, who splits her time between the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southend Hospital, said: “We read every week, in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) and other leading medical journals, of research detailing the perils of sugar and fizzy drinks.”
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Costa to debut Old Paradise Street No.3
For the first time since their inception in the 1970s Costa Coffee appears to be offering their customers a different type of coffee, the British press report.
When the two brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa opened up a roasting plant in Lambeth, South London, the duo set up an Italian style Mocha blend, which has become their signature taste over the past forty years.
A series of new roasts will be available in some stores from next Friday.
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Costa to target the Philippines
You may find it hard to believe, but coffee chains such as Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks and Costa are still finding plenty of room in North America and Europe – there may be a coffee shop on every street corner but there’s enough space for another one!
Yet whilst the major players in the industry are still focusing upon the Western world, the real battleground for expansion is Asia specifically in the east.
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Costa opens up in Cornish Academy
Months of playground gossip has come to an end after a school in Cornwall acknowledged that building work would soon be undertaken to convert an old, redundant classroom into a Costa Coffee outlet.
The café inside Camborne School and International Academy (CSIA) will be the first Costa branded coffee shop inside school in Cornwall, but, surprisingly, not the first in England.
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Costa’s MD leads town-centre taskforce
A new UK government commissioned taskforce has called upon towns to outline detailed five-year plans in an effort to boost and reenergise deflating high streets.
Costa Coffee’ s managing director Jason Cotta – somebody who knows a thing or two about Britain’s town centres – led the committee.
With just under 1,800 stores in Great Britain, Costa, the London-founded coffee chain, is the biggest beverage retailer in the country so it is safe to state that their management structure are aware of how to succeed in these troubling economic times.
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Stubborn Stubbington say no to Costa Coffee
A south-coast village is fighting back against the planned presence of a Costa Coffee outlet.
Cricket fans and pub quiz aficionados may know that the village of Stubbington was the first place in Hampshire to host a cricket game – the match pitted a team of husbands against a team of single men for those interested – but the south-coast locality has hit the headlines as residents and traders have signed a petition to keep Costa out.
It might costa them a lot.
The villagers fear that the arrival of the national chain would be of the detriment to their high-street and have a negative impact on their businesses.
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Coffee lover given a Costa-themed send-off
Karen Lloyd loved coffee. Alongside friends she would spend her time shopping and frequenting the high-street coffee chain Costa.
In fact, she liked the outlets so much that she was dubbed ‘Costa Karen’ by her buddies.
So, when she passed away after losing the battle with cancer aged 51, her family thought it fitting to give her an individual send-off; they commissioned a bespoke coffin to be made.
Burgundy in colour, Costa’s logo was painted on one side whilst on the opposing pane read the words ‘one shot, extra hot skinny latte’ to honour her usual drink of choice.
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Costa Coffee being investigated by the ASA following a complaint by Starbucks
Following a complaint by Starbucks to the Advertising Standards Authority, Costa Coffee is now under investigation for its claim that “7 out of 10 coffee lovers prefer Costa”.
Costa ran this poster campaign in March 2009 claiming the figures had come from a survey of ‘regular coffee shop customers’.
The Costa Advert in question
This survey was only of customers of Starbucks and Costa who ordered a cappuccino, the complaint stating that the cappuccino only makes up a small proportion of the drinks sold, therefore not giving a fair comparison.
The outcome of the investigation is not expected for several weeks.