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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.
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A Picture of the Global Starbucks Economy

By Derek Thompson

Jan 26 2011, 1:44 PM ET Comment

What's more impressive than Starbucks' 16,000 locations, 140,000 workers and $10 billion in revenue? Maybe it's the company's 87,000 drink variations. Or it's the fact that every four hours, a new Starbucks location opened somewhere in the world in the 2000s.

Here's a picture of the global Starbucks economy (via Online MBA):

The Scale of Starbucks


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