Sturbacks Corporation

Starbucks Corporation:
is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in theworld,[2] with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and over150 in Turkey.[1][3]
Starbucks sells drip brewed coffee, espresso-based hot drinks, other hot and cold drinks, coffee beans, salads, hot and coldsandwiches and panini, pastries, snacks, and items such as mugs and tumblers. Through the Starbucks Entertainment division and Hear Music brand, the company alsomarkets books, music, and film. Many of the company's products are seasonal or specific to the locality of the store. Starbucks-brand ice cream and coffeeare also offered at grocery stores.
From Starbucks' founding in later forms in Seattle as a local coffee bean roaster and retailer, the company has expandedrapidly. In the 1990s, Starbucks was opening a new store every workday, a pace that continued into the 2000s. The first store outside the United States orCanada opened in the mid-1990s, and overseas stores now constitute almost one third of Starbucks' stores.[4] The company planned to open a net of 900 newstores outside of the United States in 2009,[5] but has announced 900 store closures in the United States since 2008.[6]
In January 2011, Starbucksannounced that they would make small changes to the company's logo, removing the Starbucks wordmark around the siren and enlarging the siren image itself.[