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As of 2025, about how many people did Starbucks employ worldwide?

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about 14%

Starbucks' market share of coffee shops in China peaked at about 42% in 2017. By 2024, its share had fallen to about what level?

Local competitors like Luckin Coffee ate heavily into Starbucks' once-dominant position in the Chinese market.

Source: Wikipedia: Coffeehouse (2024) en.wikipedia.org

about 42%

In 2017, before that decline, what was Starbucks' market share of coffee shops in China?

Starbucks was the clearly dominant coffeehouse brand in China before local rivals caught up.

Source: Wikipedia: Coffeehouse (2017) en.wikipedia.org

$23.5 billion

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Starbucks' annual revenue actually fell in fiscal year 2020, to about how much (down from $26.5 billion in 2019)?

It was one of the few times in the company's modern history that annual revenue declined year over year.

Source: Wikipedia: Starbucks (2020) en.wikipedia.org

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