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...The total includes coffee sellers such as the bakery Greggs. There are about 600 coffee drive-throughs. Do not expect the expansion to stop....
...The process started with bullish updates last Thursday from Next — a British retailer that has been upgrading its outlook throughout the past 12 months — and popular bakery chain, Greggs....
...Greggs You may scoff — but a flat white, Americano or cappuccino from Greggs can cost half the price of some big chains, and you get loyalty points via the Greggs Rewards app....
...Starbucks, Greggs and Costa have also indicated plans to expand their drive-through portfolios, with Starbucks saying that 80 per cent of its new openings next year would have a drive-through lane....
...and Costa....
...Only 28 per cent of shops have another Greggs located within 10 minutes walk, compared with 42 per cent of Costa Coffee cafés. The positives, like the mycoprotein, are baked in....
...If operating profit margins were more in line with peers — Greggs and Costa Coffee, for example, report 8 and 12 per cent respectively — rather than 18 per cent for Patisserie Valerie, it is possible that...
...Greggs and Costa Coffee, for example, report operating profit margins of 8 per cent and 12 per cent respectively — compared with Patisserie Valerie’s 18 per cent....
...Assuming Costa commanded a premium to Greggs, purveyor of pies, it would have an EV of £2.4bn at 10 times forecast earnings before standard deductions....
...to £3bn in value by allowing the coffee and hotel chains to stand alone and be compared with direct rivals such as Hilton Hotels and InterContinental Hotels in the leisure sector and companies including Greggs...
...It noted that peers had similar ambitions, with Subway and Costa, respectively, aiming for 3,000 and 2,500 UK stores by 2020....
...They include Caffè Nero, Costa Coffee, Greggs, Pret A Manger and Starbucks. “It is not an insoluble problem. We have a recyclable product. It takes time....
...Costa, Starbucks and Paul, the French sandwich chain, all offer a discount of 25p....
...An analysis of Costa, Caffè Nero, Starbucks and Greggs shops in the UK led Citi to conclude that there were only four to five years of structural growth left in the branded UK coffee market....
...Big UK companies including Sainsbury’s, the supermarket, and Whitbread, the owner of Costa, the high-street coffee chain, are sliding on their commitment to animal welfare, according to a global industry...
...Since upgrading its coffee range to compete with high street chains such as Costa and Starbucks, it is now taking £1m a week in coffee sales....
...Watch out Starbucks and Costa Coffee. A host of new entrants is piling into the business of providing time-pressed consumers with their caffeine shots....
...The owner of Adelie, the UK food-to-go supplier that stocks everyone from Boots to Costa Coffee, is on the hunt for a new investor as it plots international expansion....
...Greggs, the baker, has attempted to push more into the food-on-the-go market, with a greater emphasis on sandwiches and coffees rather than just pasties....
...The problem with coffee bars launched under the Greggs Moments banner was not brand overstretch, though. Rather, these bland Costa clones offered nothing new....
...With Costa Coffee next door, M&S Kitchen just yards to the left and Starbucks a few units to the right in Northumberland Street in Newcastle city centre, Greggs is spoiling for a fight with the competition...
...Gregg Costa, an assistant US attorney, told the jury of 10 men and five women, Mr Stanford was “lying, stealing and bribing” so he could take people’s money “and the dreams they had with them.”...
...Greggs, the bakery chain, has had to offer 99p sandwiches to compete with two competitors nearby selling for £1. Part of it is the natural ebb and flow of business....
...The coffee chain Costa is also on the rise, while McDonalds has fallen outside the top 50 tenants for the first time....
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