Starbucks closes down their cafe in the china’s Forbidden City region

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July 15th, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 27 times, 5 so far today

Starbucks closes down their cafe in the china’s Forbidden City region

Starbucks has confirmed that they are closing down their their coffee shop on the historic site of Beijing’s Forbidden City.

The company was facing massive protests against this site and were told by the government that it could stay open if it sold other brands.

Starbucks said that they declined the offer.

The Forbidden City is one of the most popular tourist destination in the country and is also a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The company said that the decision to close down this cafe was “very congenial” and it respected the site’s motives.

Starbucks’ vice-president for Greater China Eden Woon added in a statement: “There were several choices, one of which was to continue, but it would not carry the Starbucks name any more. We decided at the end that it is not our custom worldwide to have stores that have any other name, so therefore we decided the choice would be to leave.”





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