Patrons at a Starbucks shop
© AFP/FileCANNES, France (AFP) - Starbucks disclosed this week at the prestigious MIDEM music trade fair that closed its doors that it was committed to expanding music offerings in its existing international locations.
Following the success Starbucks has experienced with its music offerings in the United States, the Coffee Company will also expand its music offerings internationally, a Starbucks spokeswoman told AFP.
But the US-based company has no immediate plans to introduce any of its brand new Hear Music Coffeehouses abroad, she underlined, correcting an earlier impression given in a MIDEM conference that the group would go international with its new music-rich coffeehouse concept.
After launching its first Hear Music Coffeehouse in Santa Monica, California in March 2004, Starbucks opened a second one in San Antonio, Texas, in December 2005 and a third will open in Miami, Florida early this year.
No other new locations have been announced for the moment, the spokeswoman said.
The "Possibilities" album by jazz piano/keyboard legend Herbie Hancock, was the first time Starbucks made a CD available simultaneously at Company-located locations in the United States and select international markets, including Australia, Britain, Germany and Japan.
Going forward, Starbucks will continue to do more global CD releases in this vein, the spokeswoman added.
"Possibilities" has been nominated for two 2006 GRAMMY awards.
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