The Whitbread Group Pension Fund has been handed a one-off contribution of £380m following Whitbread's sale of Costa to The Coca-Cola Company.
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.
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.