03 Nov Starbucks SA sold as Taste Holdings exits food business
Taste Holdings has been burned by Starbucks coffee. The retailer announced on November 1 that it would be selling the Starbucks franchise for R7-million.
08 May Oops! A stray takeaway coffee cup in ‘Game of Thrones’
With two episodes of HBO's wildly popular medieval fantasy saga Game of Thrones to go, fans took to social media this week after heroine Daenerys Targaryen was joined at a wooden banquet table by a rogue Starbucks coffee cup.
24 Apr ‘Unicorn food’ is colourful, sparkly and everywhere
Starbucks began selling “Unicorn Frappuccinos” in the US last week, a colourful kaleidoscope of a drink, breathing new life into a food trend that had been willed into existence by a torrent of carefully composed pictures shared on Instagram and other social media sites.
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26 Jul US: Starbucks takes a leap into dairy
Starbucks Coffee and Danone have announced a strategic agreement to offer a jointly created and developed selection of new specialty yoghurt products in participating Starbucks stores and in grocery channels....
20 Jun Frappuccino quantified: Starbucks to add calorie counts
There are 670 calories in a venti Double Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino Blended Crème. The multibillion-dollar coffeehouse chain just announced that it will add calorie counts to US menus, staying a step ahead of the FDA.
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07 Feb Starbucks faces fight to restore UK reputation
Despite pledging to pay millions of pounds in extra tax in Britain, Starbucks faces a battle to restore its reputation over its fiscal stance, with analysts saying the offer is "too little too late"....
29 Nov US: Starbucks turns to tea
On November 14th Starbucks made it largest acquisition yet, buying Teavana, an Atlanta-based tea retailer, for $620m. This is not the firm’s first foray into the tea market — its stores sell tea, of course, and it bought Tazo, a tea manufacturer...
01 Nov Why India’s yuppies want Starbucks and it’s not about the coffee
Starbucks has recently opened its first store in India, in central Mumbai (left). Days after the opening, Mumbaikars, mostly the young, were still queuing for up to an hour to grab their Frappuccinos. Elitist or not, it's not so much the coffee they want, but...
22 Jun Starbucks to open first tea only store in Seattle
Tea time is set for a Starbucks-style makeover as the worldwide chain aims to do for the beverage what it has for coffee.
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15 Jun US: Starbucks ventures into vending – with some ambitious competition
As if it wasn't already ubiquitous, Starbucks has announced plans to roll out hundreds of coffee vending machines, sans baristas, by the end of year ...
14 Jun The revival of Starbucks in the midst of a recession
Like McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Kraft and Nestle, Starbucks is a bell-weather company for the global food industry - and it was recently named as the "Number One World's Most Innovative Food Company" by Fast Company, the influential website that has as its premise: a global...
14 Jun The revival of Starbucks in the midst of a recession
Like McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Kraft and Nestle, Starbucks is a bell-weather company for the global food industry - and it was recently named as the "Number One World's Most Innovative Food Company" by Fast Company, the influential website that has as its premise: a global...
22 Mar US: Starbucks enters energy drink category with Refreshers
The Starbucks siren is about to butt heads with the Red Bull. Just as it opened its first Evolution fruit juice store, the world's largest coffee chain announced at its annual meeting in Seattle this week that it's about to dip into the $8-billion energy...
22 Mar US: Starbucks opens its first juice store
Starbucks has begun a new journey to find out just how much it can squeeze out of its brand. On Monday, the world's biggest coffee chain opened its very first retail store — dubbed Evolution Fresh — that's centered on the coffee cup, but on...
17 Nov Starbucks enters juice market with $30m acquisition
Starbucks is paying $30m to acquire US juice business, Evolution Fresh, as it looks to tap into the growing demand for healthy food and drink, a market estimated at $50 billion....
06 Sep Chain restaurants are really technology companies
American technology entrepreneur, Jonathan Kaplan, made a fortune as the founder of camera company, Flip, that was acquired (and shut down) by Cisco. He's just started The Melt, a food concept that he intends to make into a billion-dollar fast-food chain, and attracted the backing...