Starbucks Corporation announced that after a more than 35-year career in finance, Patrick Grismer has decided to retire from his position as chief financial officer (cfo) of the Company effective February 1, 2021. Rachel Ruggeri, senior vice president of Finance, Americas and a 16-year Starbucks partner, will succeed Grismer as cfo, effective February 1, 2021. Ruggeri will report to Kevin Johnson, Starbucks president and chief executive officer. Grismer will remain with the company as an advisor to Johnson through May 2, 2021, to ensure a smooth transition. Ruggeri has 28 years of experience in accounting, financial planning and analysis, and business process improvement. Working closely with Grismer as senior vice president of Finance, Americas, Ruggeri is highly respected by partners across the global enterprise, leading all aspects of business planning and financial performance management, with a specific focus on creating synergy and leveraging best practices across the broader organization. She first joined Starbucks in 2001 as a member of the accounting team, where, in her first year, she helped to launch the first Starbucks Card, now the foundation of Starbucks industry-leading digital engagement platform and a significant growth driver for the company.
Starbucks Corporation specializes in owning and operating coffee shops. The group also develops a coffee roasting activity. Net sales break down by source of revenue as follows:
- sales within company-operated coffee shops (81.9%): as of October 1st, 2023, owned a network of 19,592 coffee shops under the Starbucks Coffee®, Teavana®, Ethos®, Starbucks Reserve® and Princi® brands;
- sales within licensed stores (12.5%): 18,446 licensed stores located primarily in the United States (6,701), Korea (1,870), Latin America (1,649) and the United Kingdom (911);
- other (5.6%): sales of coffee, beverages and food products for companies, hotels, hospitals, airlines, etc.
Net sales break down by family of products between beverages (60.3%), food (18.3%) and other (21.4%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (73.4%), China (8.6%) and other (18%).