Premier Inn owner Whitbread has cut its defined benefit (DB) pension deficit to £162m ahead of its agreed £3.9bn sale of Costa Coffee to Coca-Cola.
The group proposed the sale of Costa on 31 August, pledging to make an additional contribution to the group's nearly 38,000 member DB scheme, which closed to future accrual in 2009. The sale is due...
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