Just two weeks after Totnes councillors voted to ban Costa Coffee from opening its first store in the Devon town, Retail Gruppenfuhrer, Heinz Weisz, gave an overview of their latest blitzkrieg.
Posted: Nov 6th, 2012
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‘I’d begun noticing that everywhere I went there was a Costa,’ said James Hendred, the surprised new franchisee. ‘So when they wanted customer feedback I asked rhetorically, ‘Why don’t you just build a café in my house?’ I didn’t think they’d take it seriously.’
European Union Spokesman Gerd Muller clarified the wording of a directive that had seen wine bars and coffee shops in the UK legally required to play CDs by the Gipsy Kings, insisting the group’s flamenco-tinged cover versions were ‘highly recommended but not obligatory’.
Posted: May 18th, 2009
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‘We suddenly realized that we had acres of prime commercial space inside our own shops that we could exploit.’
Posted: Sep 1st, 2007
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