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Starbucks outlines plans for Brazil, Egypt, India, Russia
By Katherine Hunt Last Update: 2:19 PM ET Oct 5, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Starbucks Corp. said Thursday it plans to have a presence in 40 countries outside of the United States if it meets its projections and establishes locations in Brazil, Egypt, India and Russia by the end of 2007. The Seattle-based coffee giant said it now targets opening 20,000 locations internationally, up from its previous goal of 15,000. Through a joint-venture partnership with M.H. Alshaya, Starbucks said it plans to open its first African location in Cairo, Egypt, by the end of 2006. The company said it plans to open a store in Sao Paulo, Brazil, by the end of the year, through its joint-venture company, Starbucks Brasil Comercio de Cafes. Also with M.H. Alshaya, Starbucks said it targets opening it first store in Moscow in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007. The company said it's negotiating the terms of a joint venture for operations in India, with an initial focus on major cities such as Delhi and Mumbai.
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Hmmmmmm.... Hope people have the conscience to not buy their products! A certain high percentage of the earnings goes to support israel. I really hope arabs arent that ignorant to support them!
*Princess Tigerlily* Member # 3567
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Why don't you tell the Egyptians at the same time to boycott Mac Donald's, KFC, Pizza Hut and everything else? Take all Western fast-food restaurants out of Egypt, let's see if Egyptians will miss the convenience and the taste.... and oh BTW find new employment for all people who lost their jobs!
3raqyah_fi_Masr Member # 12095
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Ya3ny, they probably support Israel, those companies too, but at least Starbucks is very well known for supporting Israel much, even for arabs living in america :S
rebreather Member # 10849
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quote:Originally posted by *Princess Tigerlily*: Why don't you tell the Egyptians at the same time to boycott Mac Donald's, KFC, Pizza Hut and everything else? Take all Western fast-food restaurants out of Egypt, let's see if Egyptians will miss the convenience and the taste.... and oh BTW find new employment for all people who lost their jobs!
What convenience and what taste? All that junk is not healthy for them anyway and even if it was who cares! 3raqyah_fi_Masr's advice is a good one.
foreignluvr Member # 5854
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Hey, If paulistano & his wife like coffee this will be perfect for them since they reside in both places the article is speaking of!!!
I don't care who Starbucks supports I like their coffee and I will continue to buy & drink it!!!
And I like the idea of Cairo having its own Starbucks...And I think it will be very successful. You know these business's aren't just opened at random. Much research is done beforehand and if Starbuck representatives didn't think it would be successful in Egypt they would not even think of opening a store in that location..
Semsema Member # 5415
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Well if they want to open one in Hurghada, I will run it for them!
muslimman Member # 11892
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quote:Originally posted by 3raqyah_fi_Masr: Hmmmmmm.... Hope people have the conscience to not buy their products! A certain high percentage of the earnings goes to support israel. I really hope arabs arent that ignorant to support them!
Masr, they will not, because normal ppl dont bother so much abt politics and all this mess in media, they are just humans and want to leave in peace and they want to have things which are usefull for them or simply they like them... why not? you know, we are leaving in the same world and if we like each other or not, we will still be together... so it would be great to stop all this support/blocking business which media are distributing all around. at least among simple ppl who are not interested to make wars... and believe me such ppl exist in much higher number then those who want wars...
There is Starbucks in Bahrain also and lots of arab ppl are going there as well as foreigners who just like this place in their countries.... i like it too and im unhappy that there is no starbucks where im now so it seems that Egipt has more possibilities to bring success to starbucks than an european country
maybe i should go for coffee to cairo salam
Left.Side.Lying.State.Of.Mind Member # 6244
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As far as I know, Starbucks the company does not give money to Israel.
However, the CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, is an admitted zionist, and personally gives contributions to Israeli and American Jewish charities. And he personally is anti-Palestinian.
Do with that information as you will.
loborules Member # 5457
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hey left do you know howard personally?
spacedust Member # 12116
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well,Starbucks is on it's way to the new build at Carrefour,Maadi.
tami025 Member # 9181
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oh great, just what cairo needs, a bunch of egyptians even more hyper than before. ever drink starbux? it's borderline speedfreak! i cant live a day without it. lol
Everyone's_a_Pascha Member # 12077
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quote:Originally posted by rebreather:
quote:Originally posted by *Princess Tigerlily*: Why don't you tell the Egyptians at the same time to boycott Mac Donald's, KFC, Pizza Hut and everything else? Take all Western fast-food restaurants out of Egypt, let's see if Egyptians will miss the convenience and the taste.... and oh BTW find new employment for all people who lost their jobs!
What convenience and what taste? All that junk is not healthy for them anyway and even if it was who cares! 3raqyah_fi_Masr's advice is a good one.
This is what blows me away. I really fight eating fast food in the USA. But when in Egypt its amazing how much better the quality of food product is from these fast food chains. Most of the product is produced in Egypt. My ex claimed that he became really disappointed in American fast food only after he came to the USA. He lived off of American fast food during his college years.
Personally I didn't manage to pick up fast food during the last trip to Egypt. If I can remember the pizza joint we stoped at the day before I left... It was either in smomouha or whatever, it was in Alex not far from Thomas Cook. It was heavenly, too bad I could barely chew it.
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so it seems that Egipt has more possibilities to bring success to starbucks than an european country ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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