Starbucks

Starbucks Corporation
	Starbucks headquarters at Starbucks Center in Seattle, Washington
Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: SBUX; NASDAQ-100 Component; S&P 500 Component;
Industry	Coffee shop
Founded	1971; Pike Place Market, Elliott Bay, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Founder	Jerry Baldwin; Zev Siegl; Gordon Bowker;
Headquarters	2401 Utah Avenue South, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Number of locations	23,768 (2016)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Howard Schultz; (Chairman and CEO); Kevin Johnson; (President and COO)
Products	Coffee beverages; smoothies; tea; baked goods; sandwiches;
Revenue	US$ 16.447 billion (2014)
Operating income	US$ 3.081 billion
Total assets	US$ 10.752 billion (2014)
Total equity	US$ 5.272 billion (2014)
Number of employees	191,000 (2014)
Subsidiaries	Starbucks Coffee Company; Ethos water; Evolution Fresh; Hear Music; La Boulange Bakery; Seattle's Best Coffee; Tazo; Teavana; Torrefazione Italia;
Website	starbucks.com

Starbucks is a chain of stores that sell coffee. A chain is many stores owned by the same company. Many of the stores look the same, and all stores sell the same items, often at the same prices. As well as coffee, Starbucks sells beverages and baked goods.

Starbucks started in Seattle in the United States in 1971. The number of stores has grown quickly. There are over 9,000 Starbucks stores all over the world. Most of these stores are in the United States. Some large cities in the U.S. have many Starbucks stores. Sometimes they open so many stores in one city that there are two Starbucks within a few blocks of each other.

Starbucks sells many kinds of drinks. There are 5 sizes: short, tall, grande, venti and trenta. There are many ways to customize each drink. A frappuccino, for example, is a cold drink. Flavored syrup and cream is added to coffee or juice and stirred with ice.

Some stores sell special items, such as mugs related to the city they are located in.

The first Starbucks in Seattle, Washington

International growth

The first Starbucks in Japan opened in Ginza in 1996. There were 985 stores in Japan in 2012.

Starbucks Media

Interior of the Pike Place Market location in 1977
Howard Schultz was chief executive from 1986 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2017
Starbucks workers protesting in Seattle
Graph showing the growth in the number of Starbucks stores between 1971 and 2011
Lody marki Starbucks
Countries with Starbucks locations as of October 2022
Starbucks in Frankfurt, Germany, 2004
Starbucks Cafe in Warsaw, Poland, 2014
Starbucks at Helsinki Airport in Vantaa, Finland, 2018
Starbucks Drive-Thru at Seremban 2, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, in 2021