Hotel and restaurant group Whitbread has outlined expansion plans as it reported strong sales and a rise in annual profits.
The group, which owns Costa Coffee and Premier Inns, said it created 3,000 UK jobs over the last year - and plans to hire 12,000 more people over the next five years.
It said it hoped to increase the number of Premier Inn hotel rooms in the UK by 45% to 75,000 by 2018, and double sales at Costa Coffee to £2bn.
Over the 12 months to February 28, like-for-like sales of at the coffee chain increased by 6.8%, although Whitbread's results did not say whether the success came at Starbucks' expense.
Its US rival has been criticised for the amount of corporation tax it pays in the UK.
Whitbread, which employs 40,000 people, opened 324 new Costa stores over the year - 186 of which were in Britain.
It comes as the group, which also runs the Beefeater and Brewers Fayre pub restaurant chains, reported an 11.4% rise in underlying pre-tax profit to £356.5m.
Chief executive Andy Harrison described the results as "excellent" and outlined the company's expansion plans.
"In April 2011 we established ambitious milestones to grow Premier Inn UK rooms by 50% to 65,000 rooms and to double Costa's worldwide system sales to £1.3bn," he said.
"We are well on track to achieve these milestones and have announced new 2018 milestones to grow Premier Inn UK by 45% to around 75,000 rooms and to double Costa's system sales to around £2bn.
"This exciting organic growth opportunity, together with a clear focus on returns, will continue to create substantial shareholder value."
He added that so far in this financial year, trading has been in line with its plans.
"Premier Inn has maintained its positive momentum," he said. "The unseasonably cold weather has held back sales within restaurants, and benefited Costa."
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