Starbucks rivals seen slurping up its sales

By Lisa Baertlein
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hot coffee sales at McDonald’s Corp (MCD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) may be eating into results at Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research), which is expected to report another period of lower profits when it posts quarterly results on Wednesday.
Traffic to U.S. Starbucks stores also has softened [...]

Starbucks, the Coffee Beans and the Copyright Row That Cost …

Starbucks, the Coffee Beans and the Copyright Row That Cost Ethiopia 47m

Starbucks, the giant US coffee chain, has used its muscle to block an attempt by Ethiopia’s farmers to copyright their most famous coffee bean types, denying them potential earnings of up to 47m a year, said Oxfam.
The development agency said the [...]

Starbucks Takes a Coffee Break

Starbucks Takes a Coffee Break
Starbucks to shut its 7,100 company-owned stores in US for a few hours on Tuesday for a nationwide barista training session
Americans will have to cope without blended Frappuccino and blueberry coffee cake for a few hours on Tuesday as Starbucks shuts its 7,100 company-owned stores for a [...]


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