Number of Starbucks Stores Globally, 1992-2016

Today Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 24,395 retail locations as of the first quarter of 2016, followed distantly by such coffee shop chains
as Dunkin Donuts with about 10,000 restaurants, Tim Hortons with 4,300 outlets, and Costa Coffee with nearly 1,700 stores worldwide. Starbucks was founded in 1971 in
Seattle, Washington, and incorporated on November 4, 1985 to become the publicly traded Starbucks Corporation. Based on the company's positive, sustained operating
results, it is ranked among Forbes' top-500 world's biggest public companies. As of 2015, Starbucks' profit was $2.5 billion and it had a market value of $70.9 billion.
While Starbucks initially focused on the domestic US market, in 1996 the company opened its first stores outside the US. Since then, Starbucks' international footprint has
expanded to 11,266 stores located in three main markets: the Americas, which includes Canada, Latin America, and the US; China and Asia Pacific (CAP); and Middle
East and Africa (EMEA). The domestic market still represents more than half of all Starbucks stores; California, with 1,863 locations, has more stores than any other state.
Starbucks operates two types of stores: company-operated and licensed. Currently, the store count is almost equally distributed between these two types - 51 percent of
stores are company-operated and the other 49 percent are licensed - even under continuous expansion. During the third quarter of 2016, Starbucks launched 474 new
stores, including the the first stores in Andorra and Slovakia. The company's growth is bolstered by low turnover of its stores. Only 443 Starbucks stores have closed
throughout the company's history: 240 stores in 2009, the year of global financial crisis; 42, in 2010; and 161 in 2011.

Total Number of Starbucks Locations Worldwide Distribution of Stores by Segments

As of the 3rd Quarter of 2016
30k

All Other Segments: 2%

25k
CAP: 26%
20k

15k

10k EMEA: 11%

The Americas: 62%

5k

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1992 Q1 2000 Q4 2009 Q3 2016 Q3 2016 Q4

Number of Licensed Stores by Country, 3rd Quarter of 2016

Legend Location
1 - 18
18 - 95
95 - 5,300
No data

2016 Q3 2016 Q4

Top-15 Countries by Number of Licensed Stores

As of the 3rd quarter of 2016

1 United States 5,292

2 China 1,110
3 South Korea 952
4 Mexico 563
5 United Kingdom 532
6 Taiwan 392
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7 Canada 364
8 Turkey 314
9 Philippines 293
10 Indonesia 260
11 Malaysia 226
12 Hong Kong/Macau 169
13 Germany 161

2016 Q3 2016 Q4

Data Source

Number of Starbucks Stores Globally, 2017

Q1
Source: Starbucks

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April 29, 2016
Today Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in
the world, with 23,571 retail locations as of the first
quarter of 2016, followed distantly by such coffee shop
chains as Dunkin Donuts with about 10,000 restaurants,
Tim Hortons with 4,300 outlets, and Costa Coffee with
nearly 1,700 stores worldwide.
Starbucks was founded in 1971 in Seattle, Washington,
and incorporated on November 4, 1985 to become the
publicly traded Starbucks Corporation. Based on the
company's positive, sustained operating results, it is
ranked among Forbes' top-500 world's biggest public
companies. As of 2015, Starbucks' profit was $2.5 billion
and it had a market value of $70.9 billion.
While Starbucks initially focused on the domestic US
market, in 1996 the company opened its first stores
outside the US. Since then, Starbucks' international
footprint has expanded to 10,918 stores located in three
main markets: the Americas, which includes Canada,
Latin America, and the US; China and Asia Pacific
(CAP); and Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The
domestic market still represents more than half of all
Starbucks stores; California, with 1,863 locations, has
more stores than any other state.
Starbucks operates two types of stores: company-
operated and licensed. Currently, the store count is

Created by Ivan Lapitskiy with knoema.com