<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> costa.co.uk </Td> </Tr> <P> Costa Coffee is a British multinational coffeehouse company headquartered in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Whitbread . It is the second largest coffeehouse chain in the world behind Starbucks and the largest in the UK . </P> <P> 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 . Acquired by Whitbread in 1995, it has since grown to 3,401 stores across 31 countries . The business has 2,121 UK restaurants, over 6,000 Costa Express vending facilities and a further 1,280 outlets overseas (including 395 in China). </P> <P> Italian immigrant brothers Bruno and Sergio Costa founded a coffee roastery in Lambeth, London, in 1971, supplying local caterers . The family had moved to England in the 1960s . Costa branched out to selling coffee in 1978, when its first store opened in Vauxhall Bridge Road, London . </P>

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