Number of Starbucks stores in China 2005-2019
Starbucks in China
Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse chain worldwide, with revenues of 26.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2019 and over 31 thousand storesacross the globe. From its humble coffee bean-roasting origins in Seattle, Washington in 1971, Starbucks expanded rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s, opening its first store outside of North America in Tokyo, Japan in 1996. In January 1999, Starbucks opened its first store in Beijing, China and has since gone on to expand its fleet there to 4,123.
The Asian market of Starbucks
As of September 2019, the country with the most Starbucks stores worldwide was the United States, where over 14 thousand stores were located. China ranked second in front of Japan which had a total of 1,286 locations. The Americas is the largest market for Starbucks by far. In 2019, Starbucks generated 16.7 billion U.S. dollars in the region with the rest of the world making a little over six billion U.S. dollars.