Italian restaurant group, Autogrill and US based Starbucks Coffee Company has announced an extension of 10-years in their partnership. Autogrill group and Starbucks have planned to open another 120 new outlets. The more outlets will be opened at airports and highways.

On January 18, Starbucks stated that it is taking its effort of pay-by-smart phone on national level in more than seven thousand eight hundred locations al across the country.

The old saying of bigger the better is finally making its effect felt in the market and among the Starbucks customers. The company is all set to roll out its latest offering to the people and this will contain the Trenta, which is the cup size that will contain the quart's worth beverages like that of tea, coffee and lemonade.

Starbucks, the coffee chain has announced that it's Starbucks VIA French Roast coffee products is now going to be made available in US and Canada.

Both the CEOs of Starbucks Inc and Kraft Foods Inc expressed their displeasures for each other regarding the direction of a distribution deal that took place between the two firms in the last January as stated by Dow Jones that got the facts from an email from Starbucks on Tuesday.

Following the lead of McDonald's and Starbucks, Tim Hortons Inc. is also gone ahead with its worldwide expansion spree.

Tim Hortons, which is a leading brand of coffee and doughnuts, has 3,029 stores in Canada and 567 in the U. S. The Company also boasts of 290 self-serve coffee-and-doughnut kiosks that are inside Spar convenience stores in Ireland and England.

A demonstration was staged outside the Starbucks coffee house, which faces a controversial debate regarding the gun laws. This protest was aimed at making the coffee-house giant revise its policy of letting the customers in, openly equipped with handguns.

Starbucks Corp. recently posted its first quarter of same-store sales growth in over a year, since the end of 2008 that is, mainly on the back of unexpected success of the company's Via instant coffee across America, in addition to strong holiday coffee sales across all international markets.

Starbucks Corp. will soon start selling instant coffee throughout North America. The company, which nearly eight months back started selling its Via instant coffee in Seattle and Chicago, will now provide it to the rest of the country and in its Canadian stores.

In its endeavor to deviate from its status of high-priced coffee drinks seller, the Seattle-based Starbucks Corp will soon give some competition to bigwigs like Nestle and Kraft Foods by venturing into the instant coffee arena. Starbucks says that instant coffee has a $17 billion global market; the product being a staple in parts of Asia and Europe, though waning a bit in the US.