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by kgwgk 2497 days ago
Starbucks doesn’t operate in Spain:

https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2016/grupo-vips-takes-...

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That link was from 2016. They do now!

https://goo.gl/maps/oVQLjLTgbYzCdDPNA

From the link I sent: “Starbucks Spain S.L. currently operates 90 stores in Spain and 11 stores in Portugal and plans to open 12 new stores and undertake integral renewal of 10 existing stores in Spain in 2016.”

The point is that “Starbucks Spain S.L.” is completely unrelated to “Starbucks Coffee Company” apart from licensing the brand from them since 2001 (I think it was a 50/50 joint venture until 2009 and later Starbucks had a non-controlling stake in 2013-2016).

Google street shows that they were operating from 2014.
There are Starbucks in Spain since 2001 [1]. But currently they are not owned, not even in part, by the US company.

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2001/10/08/daily...