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Costa Coffee Posts Strong Sales Growth

The Whitbread-owned coffee chain has posted a 23.9% rise in sales for the 13 weeks to December, reaching £602m. The chain, which earlier in the week announced plans to split the business into four divisions, hopes to open up to 300 new stores worldwide through 2012.

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