Starbucks to More Than Double China Staff to 30,000 by 2015

Starbucks Corp., the world’s largest coffee-shop chain, will more than double China staff to 30,000 by 2015 as part of its expansion in the world’s second-largest economy.

“The Starbucks business here is in its infancy in terms of development and growth,” John Culver, head of Starbucks in China and Asia Pacific, said in an interview today in the southern Chinese city of Yunnan. Starbucks currently has 12,000 employees in the country.