The Notebook: Falling fares spell trouble for airlines while Big Tech set for monster quarter July 24, 2024 Where the City’s movers and shakers get a few things off their chest. Today, it’s Victoria Scholar, head of investment at Interactive Investor, with the pen, talking airline stocks, Big Tech earnings season and her summer listening picks Turbulence at Ryanair, BA and Easyjet Airline stocks are having a turbulent time. Just on Monday, shares [...]
Starbucks: Britain’s second-largest coffee chain plots 100 new UK stores March 26, 2024 Starbucks UK has outlined plans to open 100 new stores as it delivered strong trading in the face of a weak consumer market.
The worrying rise of the Starbucks drive-thru March 26, 2024 Car-based consumers are hollowing out our high streets and straining our social fabric, says Adam Hawksbee Starbucks opened the UK’s first drive-thru coffee shop in Cardiff in 2008. Today, there are over 800 in towns and cities across the country – almost one in ten premises operated by a major coffee chain. Even the upmarket [...]
Starbucks cheers ‘good progress’ in plan for 100 new UK shops September 7, 2023 Coffee giant Starbucks has hailed “good progress” in its expansion plans to open 100 new stores in the UK over the current year. The chain said it has also “maintained strong, double-digit growth” in the UK in recent months despite pressure on consumer spending due to the rising cost of living. On Thursday, the retail [...]
Starbucks faces pressure from German giant Allianz to overhaul approach to unions March 6, 2023 Starbucks today faced mounting pressure over its approach towards unions after German financial services giant Allianz vowed to back a push to force the coffee seller to overhaul its labour policies. Allianz GI today vowed to support an investor resolution calling on Starbucks to overhaul its approach to workers’ unions, following concerns about the coffee [...]
Starbucks puts UK sale rumours on ice with £30m 100-store expansion and refurb plans March 6, 2023 Starbucks has crushed rumours it was considering the sale of its UK business with plans for a 100 more stores across the UK. The US coffee chain said it was also planning to inject £30m into refurbishing its 1,066-strong current store offering and opening a range of new cafes. Last summer, the frappuccino maker was [...]
Starbucks interim chief says firm ‘lost its way’ as chain heads for fresh growth plan September 15, 2022 Starbucks’ interim chief said the firm had “lost its way” in recent times as the coffee giant eyes up a $450m growth plan. In an interview with the Financial Times, Howard Schultz said although the company had gone through a rocky period, he believed “the best days of Starbucks are ahead of us”. In an [...]
Starbucks posts record quarterly sales while Chinese stores feel Covid side effects August 3, 2022 Starbucks shares were elevated on Wednesday after the coffee chain posted record quarterly revenue. However, the US giant said its bottom line had been impacted by inflationary cost pressures and higher wages. It surpasses sales expectations, posting third quarter sales topping $8.2bn, ahead of analysts’ bets of $8.1bn. Roaring sales in the chain’s largest market [...]
Sale brewing? Starbucks considers disposal of 300-store strong UK operation July 17, 2022 Coffee giant Starbucks is mulling a possible sale of its UK operations against a backdrop of tough macroeconomic conditions. The global coffee titan had requested adviser and investment bank Houlihan Lokey to scout for interest in its UK arm, according to a report in The Sunday Times. Some 300 stores within Starbucks’ 1,000-shop strong UK [...]
Terry Smith’s buy-and-hold investment fund ditches stake in Starbucks June 10, 2022 Terry Smith’s flagship investment fund has ditched its stake in Starbucks, after the firm picked up a stake in the Seattle firm after its share price dropped at the start of the pandemic. The buy-and-hold investment fund, started by the star fund manager nicknamed “the English Warren Buffett,” has now sold off its stake [...]