SHANGHAI, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. coffee chain giant Starbucks said Friday that the recovering Chinese market will unleash huge consumer demand, with its store count on the Chinese mainland reaching 6,090 in the first quarter (Q1) of the 2023 fiscal year.
A Starbucks store in Chongqing, China, August 17, 2019. (Photo: CFP)
During the conference, Starbucks said that its plan to open 9,000 stores in China by the end of 2025 remains unchanged.
Starbucks is confident that China's optimized COVID response policies will put the country on a path to reintroducing normalcy and routine back into people's lives, to resume pre-Covid levels of consumer, social and economic growth, said Howard Schultz, Starbucks Coffee Company's interim CEO.
In September 2022, Starbucks announced it would have 9,000 stores on the Chinese mainland by 2025 and provide 35,000 new jobs.
