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EXCLUSIVE STARBUCKS BRANCH OPENS IN EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

The new Starbucks Reserve Empire State Building store officially opened on Wednesday, 16 November. The coffee shop spans three floors and 23,000 square feet and promotes community through interactive workshops, guided tasting flights, speciality coffees and cocktails, and an expanded artisanal menu of Princi food. Starbucks Reserve locations are designed to spotlight our exquisite Starbucks […]

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STARBUCKS DARK FRENCH ROAST ‘NOT 100% ARABICA,’ SAYS COMPLAINT

Starbucks has been accused of deceiving customers with one of its coffee blends sold in grocery stores. Puroast Coffee, a small-batch roaster’s cafe in North Carolina, filed the complaint with the North Carolina Attorney General in late September. According to Puroast Coffee, Starbucks describes its Dark French Roast Coffee as pure “100% Arabica coffee”, although

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STARBUCKS CLAIMS UNION BROKE RULES BY RECORDING NEGOTIATION TALKS

The union struggle at Starbucks continues. Unions have formed across the US, and the company has retaliated by closing some stores, citing various reasons, including health and safety, although these same stores coincidentally appear to be the ones supporting unionisation. Recently, the company has filed charges with the National Labour Relations Board against union officials,

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CONSERVATIVE GROUP TARGETS STARBUCKS’ DIVERSITY PROGRAMMES

Starbucks Corp. has been accused of discriminating against white employees by allowing only minorities to participate in two training programmes, a group founded by a top adviser to former Republican President Donald Trump told a US civil rights committee on Tuesday. Positive discrimination is a sensitive topic that creates division in many areas, and now

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STARBUCKS SETTLES ETHICALLY SOURCED COCOA LAWSUIT 

A Federal court filing in California reveal a Starbucks Corp. customer settled her claims alleging the coffeehouse chain misrepresented hot chocolate as being made from “ethically sourced” ingredients despite the use of child slave labour. In May last year, a lawsuit was filed in California against  Starbucks for the labelling of their hot chocolate products,

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HOWARD SHULTZ SAYS STARBUCKS LOST ITS WAY, BUT WILL GET BACK ON TRACK

Shultz has spoken openly about Starbucks losing its way in recent years, which I took as a slight to previous CEO Kevin Johnson. Johnson earlier succeeded Howard Schultz as CEO, having previously served as the company’s president and chief operating officer from 2015 to 2017. On 16 March 2022, Johnson announced that he would step

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SAUDI WEALTH FUND TAKES THE LEAD IN STARBUCKS FRANCHISE STAKE

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is in the lead in the acquisition of a minority stake in Kuwaiti conglomerate Alshaya Group’s Starbucks Corp. franchise, according to Bloomberg. A private source told Bloomberg that the $620 billion Public Investment Fund has encouraged a number of investors to vie for a stake in the business and could

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STARBUCKS UNION CLAIMS CLOSURE OF 2 STORES AN ACT OF RETALIATION

Starbucks has recently closed two more unionised locations, one in Seattle and one in Kansas City. Starbucks Workers United claims it is an act of retaliation, similar to a series of closures that took place in July. The coffee chain giant denies the allegation and states business and safety reasons for closing the said stores.

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