{
  "id": 16268452,
  "title": "How Coca-Cola got burned with a $5bn bet on Costa Coffee",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/how-coca-cola-got-burned-with-a-5bn-bet-on-costa-coffee",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-24T02:00:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Moneyweb",
    "slug": "moneyweb",
    "url": "https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/companies-and-deals/weekend-how-coca-cola-got-burned-with-a-5bn-bet-on-costa-coffee/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Coca-Cola’s $5.1bn acquisition has failed to deliver the expected global expansion, with Costa’s sales still heavily concentrated in the UK and Ireland despite its push into vending machines.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}