Coca-cola plans acquisition of global coffee chain

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Coca-Cola has reached a deal to buy UK-based coffee chain Costa for $5.1 billion. Manuela Saragosa with the BBC’s Business Unit says the US soft drink giant wants to compete with the likes of Starbucks for the global coffee market.

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