Whitbread has pledged to use proceeds from its proposed £3.9bn sale of Costa Coffee to Coca-Cola to make an additional contribution to its defined benefit (DB) scheme.
The amount of the contribution to the Whitbread Group Pension Fund is yet to be agreed, while Coca-Cola will see "no material funding obligation" as just a handful of Costa employees are members of...
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