Taste Holdings, owners of the Domino’s Pizza brand in South Africa and Arthur Kaplan Jewelers, announced on Tuesday that it had signed a deal with Starbucks Coffee Company to open full-format stores in South Africa.
Taste said the stores would bring the full range of Starbucks food and beverages, including its ethically-sourced Arabica coffee, to South African consumers, with the first outlet set to open in Johannesburg next year and other locations to follow.
Starbucks, founded in Seattle in 1971, has more than 22 000 stores around the world.
The brand is already familiar to South African fans of Hollywood movies.
