Starbucks

The first brand for people to think about coffee should be starbucks.

Starbucks is a global coffee company from America. The general headquater is based in Seattle. Starbucks is started in 1971, and now it develops as the biggest coffeehouse shop company in the world, in 64 countries with 20891 stores, with 13279 stores in the USA,851 in China, 1324 in Canada, 989 in Japan and 806 in the United States.

The first Starbucks is built my three students who met together in the Univercity of San Francisco, on march 30, 1971.At the first the Starbucks also be called Pequod, but the name was refused by some co-founders. 

Starbucks serve serve hot and cold coffee drinkings, whole-bean coffee,snacks, cakes and crosants. Some stores also sell mugs or tumblers, hot or cold sandwichs, even beers, wines and appetizers after 4 pm.

Starbucks opened at average 2 new stores per day from 1987, it expanded rocketly. Starbucks also supply some products like films, musics or books.

When it have the store in the California, it has became a fashion. The first global shop outside the USA and Canada is in the Tokyo in 1996. Now, it has became the symbol of coffee in the whole world.

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Sheng Wu