Adding whipped cream to millions of Starbucks drinks emits 50 times as much greenhouse gas as the company’s private jet. Overall, dairy products are the biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions across the coffee giant’s operations and supply chain.

Dublin actor Liam Cunningham has revealed a list of items he took home from the Game of Thrones set after filming ended, including, he jokes, that coffee cup from Winterfell.

A stroke-victim whose life was saved by the fast actions of a retail assistant has described him as her '"real-life hero".

A Starbucks employee who saved a woman’s life by spotting the signs that she could be having a stroke, has said “don’t be afraid to talk to people you don’t know”.

Earlier this month, Starbucks’ driving force, Howard Schultz, who stepped down as the coffee giant’s executive chairman in June, realised an ambition.

A coffee chain is facing an uphill struggle to be allowed to keep its flagship outlet in Cork open.

The country’s first drive-through Starbucks opened in the Shannon Free Zone business park today.

Thomas Mulier and Corinne Gretler In the third-biggest transaction in Nestle’s 152-year history, the Swiss food giant will spend almost €6bn for the right to market Starbucks products from beans to capsules.

Famous for the Apple and Ireland tax ruling, Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition boss, is tipped to be Commission head, says Ronan Dunne.

The CEO of Starbucks has arrived in Philadelphia, hoping to meet two black men who were arrested when the coffee chain's employees told police they were trespassing.

The head of Starbucks has said he wants to personally apologise to two black men who were arrested while sitting inside one of the chain's coffee shops in Philadelphia.

Starbucks founder and chairman Howard Schultz has said the events surrounding a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend have put the "moral fibre" of the US in question.

It’s only a joke that there’s a Starbucks on every corner. However, the proliferation of the cafes is hindering the company’s growth, according to a recent report from BMO Capital Markets.

Muslim groups in Malaysia and Indonesia have called for a boycott of Starbucks because of the coffee chain's support for LGBT rights.

Starbucks is looking to raise its profile among millennials by selling upmarket coffee at $10 (€9.30) a cup at a select number of ‘reserve’ brand stores and ‘tasting rooms’ in major cities as part of a five-year plan targeting annual revenue growth of 10%.

Starbucks will more than double its number of locations in China by 2021, increasing the company’s bet on a country that CEO Howard Schultz says eventually could be a bigger market than the US.

Starbucks — the world’s largest coffee-shop chain — has reported third-quarter revenue that missed analysts’ estimates after same-store sales growth slowed in the Americas, its biggest region.

Starbucks, increasingly counting on food sales to help maintain growth, has announced plans to invest in an Italian bakery business, which it intends to expand with new locations.

Starbucks, facing growing competition for workers in the US, plans to raise employee compensation by up to 15% later this year.

Starbucks plans to accelerate its expansion in China, shrugging off concerns about a slowdown in the coffee chain’s second-largest market behind the US and a potential further depreciation of the yuan.

Coffee Day Enterprises, the Indian cafe operator and coffee exporter, fell on its trading debut after the company and investors, including US private equity house KKR & Co, raised 11.5bn rupees (€159m) in India’s biggest share sale in three years.

A landmark decision that two iconic multinationals, Fiat and Starbucks, avoided paying their fair share of tax, facilitated by the Luxembourg and Dutch authorities, respectively, may be appealed to the European Court of Justice.

The Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has said the Government is not "particularly concerned" by an EU ruling that 'sweetheart' tax deals between multinational companies and member states are unlawful.

The European Union is demanding that US coffee chain Starbucks and car manufacturer Fiat repay up to €30m in tax breaks they received from EU nations.

A planning row over Starbucks outlets in Cork has been referred to An Bórd Pleanála for determination.

Britain’s opposition Labour party said yesterday if it wins the country’s next general election it would force large corporations such as Starbucks, Vodafone, Amazon and Google to pay their “fair share” of taxes to help end austerity policies.

It seems to be traditional to get a Starbucks cup with your name written incorrectly but this particular cup is causing quite the stir on the internet.

Ireland’s attractively low rate of corporate taxation is once again under pressure with the recent release of the European Commission’s new action plan to tackle tax avoidance.

Concern has been expressed about the opening of a Starbucks cafe at the historic Queen Anne House at the corner of Emmett Place/Opera Lane in Cork city centre.