It seems like the Starbucks siren is all in readiness to lock horns with the Red Bull.

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.

The biggest coffee chain of the world, Starbucks Corp (SBUX. O), withdrew both its name and the word "coffee" from its forty-year old logo, giving birth to cries of outrage from people who claimed that they were loyal customers.

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.