Coca-Cola is to buy the Costa coffee chain from owner Whitbread in a deal worth £3.9bn. Whitbread had intended to spin off the chain as a separate firm, but said a straight sale was more profitable.
And it shows—since 2018, Costa’s fingerprints have been all over the body-care products, which serve as an homage to his home country. “It’s Brazil in the bottle,” Costa says.