Starbucks Nears Completion of $172 Million Coffee Plant in South Carolina

SUGAR LAND--May 5, 2014--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) (Seattle, Washington) is on schedule to churn out ready-to-serve coffee products from its plant in Augusta, South Carolina, by August of this year. Under construction since summer 2012, the new plant's packaging operations started last October, with manufacturing operations slated for late summer.