Costa Coffee has announced it is to develop a new £36 million roastery to 'support its national and international growth ambitions'.

The development will be located on Christopher Martin Road in Basildon and the site is a former Visteon automative plant.

The new facility will work in conjunction with Costa's existing roastery in Lambeth and will have the ability to produce 45,000 tonnes of Mocha Italia blend.

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Christopher Rogers, Managing Director for Costa, said:"Our existing Lambeth site does not have the long-term roasting capacity to cater for our increasing UK and international demand.

"The solution is to build a second roastery in the London area, which will continue to produce the high quality coffee our customers love in the quantity the business requires."

The new roastery is being developed by Prologis and is scheduled to open in early 2017.

(LM)