{"id":1485730,"date":"2025-11-28T15:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/news\/costa-and-emirates-leisure-retail-extend-longstanding-partnership\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:07:38","slug":"costa-and-emirates-leisure-retail-extend-longstanding-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/news\/costa-and-emirates-leisure-retail-extend-longstanding-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa and Emirates Leisure Retail extend longstanding partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Costa Coffee has signed a new agreement with Emirates Leisure Retail which extends their partnership for another 15 years as both partners look to grow their footprint in the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The partnership between Costa Coffee &#8211; the UK\u2019s biggest high street coffee chain &#8211; and ELR dates <strong>back to 1999 <\/strong>when Costa\u2019s first store outside the UK opened in Dubai. There are now 160 stores in the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emirates Leisure Retail was named International Franchise Partner of the Year at Costa Coffee\u2019s International Partner Forum in September in recognition of their \u201coutstanding performance, collaboration, and dedication\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Costa Coffee CEO Philippe Schailee says the partnership with ELR highlights the benefits of longstanding franchise agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTogether, we\u2019ve built something truly special: a partnership rooted in trust, excellence, and the belief that great Costa coffee brings people together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese new agreements reflect our mutual commitment to the future and our confidence in continuing to grow, innovate, and deliver exceptional experiences for customers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Costa was in the news earlier in the year amid reports that Coca-Cola, which acquired the brand in January 2019 from Whitbread, was looking to sell it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costa Coffee has signed a new agreement with Emirates Leisure Retail which extends their partnership for another 15 years as both partners look to grow their footprint in the region. The partnership between Costa Coffee &#8211; the UK\u2019s biggest high street coffee chain &#8211; and ELR dates back to 1999 when Costa\u2019s first store outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":669,"featured_media":1485741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Costa and Emirates Leisure Retail extend longstanding partnership","_seopress_titles_desc":"Costa Coffee has signed a new agreement with Emirates Leisure Retail which extends their partnership for another 15 years as both partners look to grow their footprint in the region.","_seopress_robots_index":"","content-type":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"251787,149808,139558,75918,80957,1483634","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[801],"tags":[],"type-de-post":[2066],"class_list":{"0":"post-1485730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneur-stories","8":"type-de-post-articles-actualite"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485730"},{"taxonomy":"type-de-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-de-post?post=1485730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}