Costa Coffee and M&S enter UK-wide collaboration for on-the-go consumption

18 Nov 2021 --- Costa Coffee and M&S Food have entered a new collaboration to create a dining and on-the-go experience for UK customers – Costa Coffee Now Serving M&S Food.

Launching next year, customers will be able to choose from over 30 M&S Food products, including lunch options, hot meal boxes and children’s food. 

Available in over 2,500 Costa Coffee stores across the UK and via Drive-Thru lanes, the range will build on Costa’s current food and coffee range to provide more choice for customers.

Breakfast, lunch and break-time needs
The collaboration with M&S Food means Costa Coffee can provide an even greater range of quality and good value food for all customers’ breakfast, lunch and break-time needs. 

For M&S Food, the collaboration will further expand access to its food range across the UK, in neighborhood locations and on high streets and retail parks.

Customers can expect to enjoy a range of M&S Food, including their range of fresh sandwiches and salads, as well as products that suit many dietary choices from the successful Plant Kitchen and Made Without brands.

Neil Lake, managing director, Costa Coffee UK&I.“Following the launch of our new festive menu, we are delighted to bring further festive cheer by announcing a new food collaboration with M&S Food,” says Neil Lake, managing director, Costa Coffee UK&I. 

“As we continue to craft new coffee experiences across our stores, Costa Express machines, and Costa coffee in a can and at-home offer, we are bringing together two of the very best brands in a UK-first to launch the Costa Coffee Now Serving M&S Food range.”

Coffee on-the-go
Lake also detailed how the collaboration will build on its existing food range and help Costa become the first choice for customers buying food and coffee on-the-go. 

“We’ll use our joint expertise to develop a food experience of the highest quality, freshness and value – all served with a perfectly crafted Costa coffee.”

According to Stuart Machin, chief operating officer and M&S Food managing director, M&S Food, adds: “This collaboration allows many more customers to enjoy our wide range of sandwiches, salads and snacks in more locations across the UK.”

“It extends our reach and supports our strategy of making M&S more relevant, more often for families.”

In other recent Costa Coffee developments, the café chain and Coca‑Cola HBC – one of the world’s largest bottling partners of The Coca‑Cola Company – unveiled a range of Costa Coffee products aimed at-home consumption, on-the-go and at-work coffee drinking occasions. 

Edited by Elizabeth Green