Starbucks and Match hope to facilitate coffee dates this Valentine’s
With Christmas now firmly in the rear view mirror and those New Year party outfits back in the wardrobe, February is here and that can only mean one thing: Valentine’s Day.
Luckily – or unluckily for some as the case may be – Starbucks and the popular dating website Match are hooking up in a bid to help singles find their potentially perfect partner.
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Wisconsin couple tie the knot at Starbucks
If you think that you’re engaged to espressos and in a consummate relationship with coffee then, unfortunately, you’ve got nothing on DeAnna Dodson and Jordan Senz who have been making headlines recently after news of their wedding emerged online.
The couple – who had been betrothed for several years – swapped coffee themed vows with one another before heading to Janesville, Wisconsin, to officially sign their marriage papers at a low key ceremony…
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Sales of Chinese grown coffee to Starbucks rise
When you think of the major coffee growing nations of the world, China might not be the first country that springs to mind. However despite being a relatively small producer on the global stage, the amount of coffee being grown within Chinese borders is increasing and has found a fan in the American retail giants Starbucks.
Since the start of 2014 Starbucks has imported around 14,000 bags of arabica from Chinese plantations, almost five times the amount that was brought in during the course of 2013. These figures come from the shipping intelligence company PIERS.
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Starbucks to take control of their Japanese operations
Earlier on this year the American coffee giant Starbucks reported a staggering 18th consecutive quarter of a 5% plus increase in same-store sales as well as a near quarter (23% to be exact) rise in earnings.
Now after those incredible figures, the Seattle-based chain is growing once against.
Starbucks is planning on taking full ownership of their Japanese operations in a $900 million deal that will see the company fully oversee their own future in their second largest market.
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Beating the sixty-shot Starbucks
The record for creating the biggest and most outlandish drink at Starbucks has been broken. Again.
It wasn’t too long ago that we all lived in a simpler age where people simply grabbed their coffee and either drunk whilst casually skipping down the street humming along to classic 1990s pop songs, or grabbed their cub and became at one with the furniture and stayed rooted in coffee shops to talk about life, love and politics. Those were the days.
Then, one day, everything changed.
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No more coffee for long-standing Fordham Plaza news stand
No more Coffee
Those are the words, written in black marker, which signalled the end of a news stand’s near fifteen year association with serving cheap and cheery cups of joe.
The stand in question is located in One Fordham Plaza, and Starbucks has just moved in around the corner.
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Starbucks set to increase prices
Following in the footsteps of J.M Smucker, Starbucks has announced that they will be raising the prices of their coffee.
The move is in response to the spiralling costs of raw coffee that is the by-product of adverse weather conditions strangling supply in some of the major coffee growing nations. Up until this point, Starbucks had held firm and had even suspended purchases for a while as they waited for the market to ease up a little.
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$23m fund created to help battle coffee rust in Latin America
An international group that includes the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) and Starbucks is set to create a $23m fund which will aid Latin American coffee farmers as they continue in their ongoing battle against coffee rust.
Coffee rust (Hemileia vastatrix), also commonly known as roya, is a disease which can devastate plantations and has, unfortunately, become a worldwide problem. The first documented case of the fungus was recorded in Kenya in the 19th century but it has since spread across Sri Lanka and Asia before making its first appearance in the Americas in the early 1970s.
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The EU is set to investigate the tax arrangements of Starbucks
Starbucks are once again under scrutiny in Europe for their tax arrangements has European officials began an investigation into their current financial agreements with the Irish and Dutch governments.
Yesterday the European Commission announced that they would be looking at the tax affairs of Starbucks, Apple and Fiat.
“In the current context of tight public budgets, it is particularly important that large multinationals pay their fair share of taxes,” announced Joaquin Almunia, and Europe’s top competition regulator didn’t stop there as he raised concerns that preferential treatment may have been granted that breached state aid rules.
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Everything is bigger in Texas, including orders at Starbucks
If you have visited Starbucks for your coffee then you are probably aware that their drinks come in a variety of sizes. The regular trifecta of tall, grande and venti – or small, medium and large in the English parlance – are plastered around menu-boards and are the most commonly known sizes. However if you are willing to go off the beaten track and enter the world of secret handshakes and ‘off menu’ orders, then you can request a couple more sizes such as the short (or very small) and the bladder busting 31oz trenta.
Well, just when you thought things couldn’t get any bigger this 128oz monster blows everything out of the water, and is apparently available for $55.
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