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COSTA OPENS ITS THIRD TRAINING ACADEMY IN NEWBURY

Costa is investing over £150,000 on a third unrivalled Training Academy due to the rapid growth of its global business in the last two of years. The new facility, which opens in Newbury on Wednesday 8th April 2009, will support Costa's existing Training Academies in London and Leeds where its highly skilled baristas are currently coached in the art of coffee making.

Costa's people are at the heart of what it does best and that is why it places huge investment, resource and time into training and developing its baristas. Last year, the business trained approximately 2,500 delegates. This year, with the opening of its third academy, it will increase that to approximately 4,500 delegates. The Training Academy in Newbury will offer baristas, particularly in the south and southwest of England, the chance to master every precise factor that combine to make the perfect cup of coffee with flair, efficiency, speed and consistency. Their skills will be fine tuned in milk frothing, espresso tasting, dosing, grinding, tamping, cleaning, extraction and presentation.

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