Starbucks Secret Weapon Is Machine From Sleepy Swiss Village
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As Starbucks Corp. intensifies its charge on China, one of its little-known weapons is a family-owned company in a sleepy Swiss village.
Thermoplan AG, based among cow pastures in Weggis, a town of 4,400 inhabitants near Lucerne, makes the automatic machines for espressos and cappuccinos in each of Starbucks’s almost 21,000 shops around the world.