Shanghai Starbucks

Starbucks Coffee Company was founded in 1971 and has now expanded to more than fifty countries including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Singapore. To date, it has over 17,000 stores worldwide, making it the world's leading premium coffee brand and being named the top brand in the American restaurant chain industry by Fortune magazine. The company's coffee business focuses on humanity and quality, emphasizing respect for customers and employees, insisting on sourcing the world's best coffee beans, and providing consumers with the finest coffee products and the most comfortable consumption venues. As a result, Starbucks Coffee Company has become the most loved and admired company in the American restaurant industry. Starbucks landed in Shanghai on May 4, 2000, and developed at a pace of more than one store per month in that year. Since the opening of its first store at Lippo Plaza on Huaihai Road, it has successively appeared in Lujiazui, Pudong, Nanjing West Road Hongxiang, Shanghai Centre, Meichen on Huaihai Road, the Old Town God Temple in Yu Garden, Central on Huaihai Road, Binjiang Avenue, People's Park, Hangzhou, Kunshan, and other locations. After grand openings in Nanjing and Ningbo in 2003, it continued to open stores in Yangzhou, Jiading, Songjiang and other areas in 2007. In 2011, the company planned to open stores in Shangyu, Xuzhou, Wenzhou, Taicang, Jinhua and other regions. By the end of December 2013, it had more than 410 stores. The company places great emphasis on talent development, with a comprehensive international training system and various corporate benefits.