As of 2025, about how many people did Starbucks employ worldwide?
Answerabout 381,000
Running tens of thousands of cafes worldwide takes an enormous global workforce.
Source: Wikipedia: Starbucks (2025) en.wikipedia.org
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In 2017, before that decline, what was Starbucks' market share of coffee shops in China?
Answerabout 42%
Starbucks was the clearly dominant coffeehouse brand in China before local rivals caught up.
Source: Wikipedia: Coffeehouse (2017) en.wikipedia.org
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Starbucks' market share of coffee shops in China peaked at about 42% in 2017. By 2024, its share had fallen to about what level?
Answerabout 14%
Local competitors like Luckin Coffee ate heavily into Starbucks' once-dominant position in the Chinese market.
Source: Wikipedia: Coffeehouse (2024) en.wikipedia.org
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Starbucks' annual revenue actually fell in fiscal year 2020, to about how much (down from $26.5 billion in 2019)?
Answer$23.5 billion
It was one of the few times in the company's modern history that annual revenue declined year over year.
Source: Wikipedia: Starbucks (2020) en.wikipedia.org
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