Starbucks Plans to Add 100 UK Stores in Drive-Through Push
- American coffee chain outlines £30m of investment in expansion
- Comes after the company reportedly mulled sale of UK business
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Starbucks Corp. is investing £30 million ($36.1 million) to open and renovate coffee shops in the UK, pushing on with expansion in a market where profit has dropped due to soaring costs of coffee beans and labor.
Starbucks aims to add 100 stores in the UK in the next year, the US coffee chain said as it reported results for the year through Oct. 2 for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Sales rose above pre-pandemic levels for the first time.