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The holidays at Starbucks are a time to celebrate with sweet traditions rooted in more than four decades of passion for coffee, food and the holiday spirit. Starting Nov. 1, connect with loved ones or take a much-needed shopping break with Starbucks beloved holiday handcrafted beverages and delicious treats.

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The Chestnut Praline Latte is Starbucks first new holiday handcrafted beverage in five years. Inspired by the time-honored holiday tradition of warm roasted chestnuts, this cozy beverage features Starbucks® signature espresso combined with freshly steamed milk and flavors of caramelized chestnuts and spices. The drink is then finished with whipped cream and spiced praline crumbs for crunch.

Returning Favorites: Starbucks® Handcrafted Holiday Beverages

Peppermint Mocha + Skinny Peppermint Mocha

Experience holiday flavor in full effect with the Peppermint Mocha, a combination of espresso, steamed milk, mocha sauce and peppermint flavored syrup. Topped with a fluffy cloud of whipped cream and dark chocolate curls, this festive beverage is just too good to resist!

Fans of this classic seasonal beverage can also enjoy their favorite holiday treat with fewer calories. Featuring a combination of espresso, steamed nonfat milk, sugar-free mocha sauce and sugar-free peppermint flavored syrup, the Skinny Peppermint Mocha is 100 calories for a Tall (12 fl oz) beverage.

Celebrate the season with this holiday showstopper featuring a combination of espresso, steamed milk and rich caramel brulée flavored sauce, topped with whipped cream and caramelized crunchy caramel brulée topping.

Enjoy the flavors of freshly baked gingerbread combined with espresso and steamed milk. This holiday beverage is now topped with spice-infused whipped cream prepared with cinnamon, cloves and ginger and finished with a real molasses drizzle. The new Gingerbread Latte is sure to take you on a trip down memory lane to holidays past.

Savor Starbucks wildly popular interpretation of holiday eggnog! Featuring a combination of espresso and rich steamed eggnog, topped with a sprinkle of ground nutmeg, this is a perfect choice for a crisp winter morning or cozy afternoon.

Starbucks® Christmas Blend, a customer favorite that for decades has signaled the holiday season, turns 30 this year. Brewed in Starbucks® stores during the holiday season, Christmas Blend combines bright Latin American coffees with rare aged beans from Sumatra, for signature sweet and spicy notes.

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Fact Sheet: Starbucks Holiday 2014 &#8211; Tastes of the Season

The holidays at Starbucks are a time to celebrate with sweet traditions rooted in more than four decades of passion for coffee, food and the holiday spirit.

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Fact Sheet: Starbucks Holiday 2014 – Tastes of the Season

The New Starbucks Discoveries Iced Café Favorites™ Peppermint Mocha and Gingerbread Latte allow customers to enjoy their favorite Starbucks® holiday espresso beverages now at home.

Inspired by Starbucks® handcrafted holiday classics, these festive beverages are made with rich, bold brewed Starbucks® espresso from 100 percent arabica beans, reduced fat milk, and natural flavors. Look for them in the chilled section at major grocery stores nationwide, starting October 2014 for a limited time only.

Starbucks Discoveries Iced Café Favorites™ Peppermint Mocha is a flavorful blend of cocoa, crisp mint flavors and bold espresso and creamy milk, inspired by the signature drink of the holiday season.

Starbucks Discoveries Iced Café Favorites™ Gingerbread Latte conveys the holiday spirit with notes of cinnamon, cloves and ginger, bold espresso and creamy milk.

Fact Sheet: New Starbucks Discoveries Iced Café Favorites Peppermint Mocha and Gingerbread Latte - Starbucks Stories

Fact Sheet: New Starbucks Discoveries Iced Café Favorites Peppermint Mocha and Gingerbread Latte

Share Holiday Moments At Home with the New Starbucks Discoveries Iced Café Favorites Holiday Flavors

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In the spring of 2014, Starbucks unveiled a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Oprah Winfrey, celebrating a shared love of tea. Oprah worked with Teavana’s leading teaologists to personally develop a distinctive blend – Teavana® Oprah Chai Tea – featuring a bold infusion of cinnamon, ginger, cardamom and cloves, blended with loose-leaf black tea and rooibos.

Available at participating Starbucks® and Teavana® stores in the U.S. and Canada, customers can enjoy Teavana® Oprah Chai Tea as a handcrafted latte or as loose leaf tea to brew at home, in addition to a number of gift sets that celebrate the ritual and comfort of a great cup of tea.

In honor of a mutual commitment with Oprah to giving back, Starbucks makes a donation for each Teavana® Oprah Chai Tea product sold to benefit educational opportunities for youth through the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation. Since the launch of Teavana® Oprah Chai, Starbucks has donated nearly two million dollars from Teavana® Oprah Chai Tea sales to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation. 

Visit <a href="http://www.oprah.com/app/steep-your-soul.html">www.SteepYourSoul.com</a> to learn more about Teavana® Oprah Chai Tea and the organizations that are being supported through the collaboration.

Fact Sheet: Teavana Oprah Chai Tea Retail Offerings - Starbucks Stories

Fact Sheet: Teavana Oprah Chai Tea Retail Offerings

In the spring of 2014, Starbucks unveiled a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Oprah Winfrey, celebrating a shared love of tea.

https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2014/fact-sheet-teavana-oprah-chai-tea-retail-offerings/

As part of the company’s ongoing efforts to innovate and expand mobile payment capabilities, Starbucks offers the following ways to pay using your mobile device in our stores:

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Starbucks offers mobile payment experiences to customers at nearly 14,000 Starbucks locations worldwide. More information about Starbucks official applications is available at <a href="http://www.starbucks.com/coffeehouse/mobile-apps">www.starbucks.com/coffeehouse/mobile-apps</a>

Customers running iOS 6.0 and above can download the app from the App Store at <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/">www.itunes.com/appstore/</a>.

Customers using the Starbucks® App for Android™ in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. can manage their Starbucks Card efficiently and enjoy an optimized mobile experience on the Android device. The Starbucks® App for Android™ is available for a variety of Android™ devices running version 4.0 and above. To download Starbucks® App for Android™, visit Google Play at<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.starbucks.mobilecard"> play.google.com/store</a>.

Fact Sheet: Mobile Payment -The Fastest Way to Pay at Starbucks - Starbucks Stories

Fact Sheet: Mobile Payment -The Fastest Way to Pay at Starbucks

As part of the company’s ongoing efforts to innovate and expand mobile payment capabilities, Starbucks offers the following ways to pay using your mobile device in our stores

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New Starbucks® Rwanda Rift Valley Single Origin Coffee

Rwanda, located just two degrees south of the equator, is a land-locked country with a lush green and hilly terrain. This coffee flourishes in the nutrient-rich, volcanic soil—a stunning red in color—of Rwanda’s Rift Valley. Legend has it that the red earth is so fertile that if you took a dead tree branch and stuck it in the ground, it would come to life and grow a new tree. The red soil, combined with high elevation and good rainfall make this is an ideal place to grow high quality coffee. We love the elegant flavor it delivers to your cup and the promising future it brings to Rwanda’s premium-coffee growers.

Coffee was instrumental in bringing people together and lifting the spirit of the population after an incredibly traumatic moment in the country’s history. Much of the coffee is produced in cooperatives, but post-war trust was very low. Cultural and ethical boundaries needed to be overlooked in order to set up the infrastructure needed for a thriving specialty coffee industry. It was literally through the cultivation of specialty coffee that people in Rwanda were able to come together, to know each other, to trust each other again.

Starbucks has been purchasing high quality arabica coffee from Rwanda since 2004. In 2009 Starbucks opened a Farmer Support Center in Kigali, Rwanda. This center allows Starbucks agronomists and quality experts to collaborate directly with coffee farmers to encourage responsible growing practices and improve the quality and size of their harvests. Ultimately, these efforts can help farmers earn better prices and become more resilient, long-term producers.

Fact Sheet: Starbucks Rwanda Rift Valley Single Origin Coffee - Starbucks Stories

Fact Sheet: Starbucks Rwanda Rift Valley Single Origin Coffee

Rwanda, located just two degrees south of the equator, is a land-locked country with a lush green and hilly terrain.

https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2014/fact-sheet-starbucks-rwanda-rift-valley-single-origin-coffee/

New Starbucks® Timor Ramelau Single Origin Coffee

Timor-Leste, the official name of East Timor, is located south of the equator in the Malay Archipelago. The country spans the eastern half of the island of Timor, the largest and eastern-most of the Lesser Sunda Islands. This coffee is cultivated near Mount Ramelau, a lush forested peak—East Timor’s highest—where the earth is well nourished and the weather is perfectly temperate.

Cooperativa Café Timor (CCT) is the producer of this coffee, which is cultivated in the backyards of smallholder farmers who meticulously tend their plants, only the ripest cherries are selected for processing, resulting in a smooth, refined cup. CCT, established in 1994 with support from the US National Cooperative Business Association, is a cooperative organization of coffee farmers in East Timor that produces and exports the premium coffee.

Starbucks has been buying coffee from CCT since 1996 and has not only helped them improve the quality of their coffee but has also supported a number of social projects in East Timor. In 2000, Starbucks helped support a health clinic by covering the initial purchase of medical supplies. In 2008, Starbucks contributed $20,000 to a social project benefitting 14,000 people in rural areas of East Timor. Today, through our relationship with CCT Starbucks continues to support the operations of the health programs and clinics in Timor.

Fact Sheet: Starbucks Timor Mount Ramelau Single Origin Coffee - Starbucks Stories

Fact Sheet: Starbucks Timor Mount Ramelau Single Origin Coffee

Timor-Leste, the official name of East Timor, is located south of the equator in the Malay Archipelago.

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New Starbucks® Guatemala Laguna de Ayarza Single Origin Coffee

This coffee thrives in the verdant highlands of the state of Santa Rosa, Guatemala, above Laguna de Ayarza; a double caldera lake formed thousands of years ago. The region is comprised of rich, volcanic soils. As legend has it, arabica coffee evolved from the volcanic soils of the Ethiopian high lands so it has an affinity for growing in volcanic soils and thrives under these conditions.

In addition to ideal soil composition, Laguna de Ayrza also has the perfect combination of warm days and cold nights that allow the beans to mature slowly as their delicate flavors become deeper and more complex.

Starbucks has been purchasing coffee from Guatemala since the early days of the company, and we have been sourcing coffee from the Santa Rosa Department for more than a decade.

Fact Sheet: Starbucks Guatemala Laguna de Ayarza Single Origin Coffee - Starbucks Stories

Fact Sheet: Starbucks Guatemala Laguna de Ayarza Single Origin Coffee

This coffee thrives in the verdant highlands of the state of Santa Rosa, Guatemala, above Laguna de Ayarza; a double caldera lake formed thousands of years ago.

https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2014/fact-sheet-starbucks-guatemala-laguna-de-ayarza-single-origin-coffee/

Teavana invites you to embrace fall as you get back into your routine following the summer months by finding a special moment each day to enjoy the bold and spicy flavors of Teavana’s chai teas.

With roots that can be traced to a rich and deep history throughout India, chai tea is traditionally made up of cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, cloves and pepper. In fact, “chai” means “tea” and as a purveyor of fine tea, Teavana’s Teaologists carefully crafted Teavana’s chai tea collection by selecting ingredients that make each blend distinctive, fit for any palate or occasion.

Chai Tea by Teavana - Starbucks Stories

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Back by popular demand starting July 21, 2014 and only for four weeks in participating Canadian Starbucks stores, Starbucks is bringing back the iconic Mocha Coconut Frappuccino® blended beverage.

Mocha Coconut Frappuccino® blended coffee will sweep you away to a tropical paradise. This delicious treat is made with our signature Frappuccino® Roast coffee, your choice of milk, bittersweet mocha sauce, coconut syrup and ice, blended and then topped with whipped cream, chocolate drizzle and topped with toasted coconut flakes.

And don’t forget that Frappuccino® blended beverages are now totally customizable, allowing customers to create their perfect beverage.

Will it be nonfat, 2%, whole or soy?

Extra coffee? A shot of espresso? Decaf perhaps?

Want us to make it light or hold the whip?

A little drizzle? Chocolate chips? Whipped cream?

Fact Sheet: Mocha Coconut Frappuccino, a Canadian Exclusive - Starbucks Stories

Fact Sheet: Mocha Coconut Frappuccino, a Canadian Exclusive

For a limited time in Canada, Mocha Coconut Frappuccino is back.

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Starbucks Coffee Heritage in Latin America

Latin America has been a key sourcing region since the company’s founding in 1971. The strong coffee heritage is the heart of Starbucks success in the region. These bright and flavourful beans are produced in the region and are enjoyed in all 65 countries where Starbucks coffee is served. Starbucks is proud to source coffee mainly form Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, México, Panamá, Peru and Puerto Rico. We have become the largest buyer and roaster of high-quality Colombian Arabica coffee globally and the largest exporter of Colombian coffee in the world. Starbucks is excited to be part of the momentum of coffeehouse growth in Latin America. Since entering Mexico in 2002, coffee consumption is estimated to have increased 100-150%.

Starbucks Coffee Company in Latin America

Starbucks has been purchasing coffee from Latin America for more than 40 years and operating stores in the region for more than 10 years. Starbucks is committed to doing business responsibly – both where retail stores are located and in the regions where coffee is grown. As a company Starbucks has always believed in the importance of building a great, enduring company that strikes a balance between profitability and a social conscience. Today, Starbucks has more than 740 stores across 13 countries within the region and has served more than 100 million Latin American customers in 2013.

Fact Sheet: Starbucks Latin America - Starbucks Stories

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Fact Sheet: Starbucks Latin America

At Starbucks, coffee is the heart and soul of our company and we are committed to serving the highest quality Arabica coffee sourced in the most ethical way possible. We also know that our success is dependent on the success of coffee farmers around the world and as a result, have established a comprehensive approach to how we support their livelihoods.

This infrastructure, developed over a decade ago, comes to life for the thousands of Colombia farmers every day – across more than 10 coffee producing regions – in the following ways:

Developed with Conservation International ten years ago, Coffee and Farmer Equity Practices (C.A.F.E.) are a set of 200 guidelines ensuring that social, environmental and economic sourcing standards are being met while being open-sourced and implemented across our supply chains.

Our Farmer Support Centers located in coffee-growing regions support the awareness of and participation in Starbucks C.A.F.E. Practices with agronomists and quality experts working directly with farmers and supply chain to provide support on coffee quality and sustainability.

In order for our customers to have a high quality coffee experience we must care for, and honor, all of the people whose livelihoods are dependent on this vital commodity. From individual farmers to entire communities, we cultivate long-term relationships that support the future of specialty coffee.

Fact Sheet: Colombia Farmer Support - Starbucks Stories

At Starbucks, coffee is the heart and soul of our company and we are committed to serving the highest quality arabica coffee sourced in the most ethical way possible.

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Fact Sheet: Colombia Farmer Support

At Starbucks, we have the unique opportunity to be a part of people’s lives where they live, work and play. With 18 studios around the world, we’re able to design stores to reflect the neighborhoods we serve, thereby enhancing the connection our customers and partners (employees) make over a cup of coffee. Starbucks® first store in Bogota is the next chapter in that story – a beautiful space designed to honor Colombia’s rich coffee heritage and Starbucks 43-year history purchasing premium arabica coffee from Colombia coffee farmers.

First Starbucks® store in the world to serve 100 percent locally sourced coffee.

Starbucks at Parque de la 93 is designed to be a celebration of Colombia’s high-quality, arabica coffee. The store will serve five different varieties of Colombian coffee, including Colombia Espresso, Colombia Espresso Decaf, the single-origin Colombia Nariño, Colombia and a special limited-edition Colombia El Peñol coffee. Colombia is the first country in the world where Starbucks is serving 100 percent locally sourced coffee.

First Starbucks® store in Latin America to offer Starbucks Reserve® coffee.

A special collection of rare, exquisite arabica coffees sourced from smallholder and estate farms around Colombia, available for a limited time in select stores.

First Starbucks® store in Latin America to offer The Clover® Brewing System.

Which lets customers discover new layers and dimensions within a coffee’s familiar aroma, flavor, body and acidity, brewed fresh by the cup. Clover® brewed coffee is only available in select Starbucks® stores.

Four areas for four unique coffee experiences.

Starbucks at Parque de la 93 offers a beautiful terrace for customers who want to enjoy their coffee outdoors, a main retail area for grab-and-go options, an interactive coffee bar experience on the second level where customers can discover new types of coffee and different brewing methods like the pour-over style Chemex® Coffeemaker or the classic coffee press, and a quiet seating area upstairs for customers who want to simply relax and recharge.

A true collaboration between Starbucks and local artisans and designers, featuring locally sourced materials.

The Starbucks store design team, led by Starbucks senior designer for Latin America Bret Lewis, worked closely with well-known painter and illustrator Luis Carlos Cifuentes (who grew up in the Santander area and now works in Bogota), Colombian industrial and furniture designers Ana Reza Hadden and Mariana Veira, and Perceptual Studio, a Medellin-based interiors company, to create a store design that connects the Starbucks brand to Colombia’s rich artistic heritage.

Fact Sheet: Starbucks Colombia – Parque de la 93 - Starbucks Stories

Fact Sheet: Starbucks Colombia – Parque de la 93

At Starbucks, we have the unique opportunity to be a part of people’s lives where they live, work and play.

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