What Whitbread’s planned sale of Costa Coffee to Coca-Cola means By: MarketWatch October 23, 2018 at 17:52 PM EDT U.K. leisure group Whitbread is set to sell Costa Coffee chain to U.S. soft-drinks maker Coca-Cola for roughly £4bn (or $5.2 billion). Read More >> Related Stocks: Coca-Cola Company Starbucks Corp