Starbucks

The company has said that it wants to double its international store count to about 40,000

The coffee chain has doubled down on the country of more than 1.4 billion people as it searches for new avenues of growth

The coffee chain faces widespread criticism in South Korea and suffers a “very significant” drop in sales after the campaign in May

The US coffee chain has held preliminary talks with investment banks to help determine an approach

Police have launched an investigation after civic groups filed complaints

Staff share internal feedback praising the change: ‘Thanks for discontinuing Automatic Counting!’

President Lee Jae-myung slams the campaign as the act of a ‘degenerate peddler’

The company has cut more than 2,000 jobs since February of last year

It’s also reviewing its international support organisations and expects more job cuts outside the US