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Starbucks Moves Toward Monopoly

By AAN Staff
may 2, 2003  04:44 pm
Starbucks Moves Toward Monopoly
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.
View full article at Seattle Weekly