The chain buys about 3% of the world’s coffee and works with more than 450,000 farms. In 2013, Starbucks bought its first company-operated farm, Hacienda Alsacia, in Costa Rica to study disease ...

New Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol explained four priorities for the U.S. business. Starbucks is hoping Niccol can turn around the coffee ... make the company's supply chain more efficient and upgrade ...