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Starbucks to launch first all-day dining cafe in China
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Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson interview and news conference as company inks Alibaba partnership
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tarbucks will launch its first all-day dining cafe in Shanghai, featuring fresh Italian food, the U.S. coffee giant said in a statement on Friday.
The move signals part of the company’s effort to “to play the long game in China,” according to Belinda Wong, CEO of Starbucks China.
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The coffee chain, which now operates more than 3,700 stores in 158 cities in China, is seeing slower growth in the country, with transactions down 2 percent in its first quarter.
China is likely to become an increasingly important market for coffee retailers such as Starbucks and Nestle due to the country’s low per-capita consumption of the beverage and rising middle-class affluence, according to a report by Bloomberg Intelligence.
