Starbucks Moves Toward Monopoly
By AAN Staff
may 2, 2003 04:44 pm
The specialty coffee giant, which
expects a record $4 billion in sales this
year, has Seattle's Best Coffee and
Torrefazione Italia in the fold now and
sees no end to its growth. Rick
Anderson looks at the java giant's
stranglehold on the world market for latte
in a cardboard cup. Starbuck's goal:
25,000 shops by 2013. "At this rate,
Starbucks likely will challenge ubiquitous
McDonald's (currently 28,000 restaurants
in 118 countries) for Most Annoying
Expansion," he writes.