Archive · 19 Jun 2025
Tata Starbucks Sees Store Profitability Amidst Expansion Losses
Starbucks in India is expanding, opening many new stores.
While each store is making money, the company overall is losing money because of the cost of opening those new stores.
They opened 58 stores in the last year.
The company's revenue grew, but not enough to offset the costs of expansion, leading to losses.
Starbucks aims to open more stores to meet the increasing demand for coffee, especially from young consumers.
Starbucks stores in India are individually profitable.
Tata Starbucks posted a ₹135.7 crore net loss in FY25.
Revenue grew by 5% to ₹1,277 crore in FY25, with growth improving in the second half of the year.
Rapid expansion, with 58 new stores, is a key factor in the overall losses.
Tata Consumer Products plans to have 1,000 Starbucks outlets by FY28.
- Who
- Tata Starbucks, a joint venture between Tata Consumer Products and Starbucks.
- What
- Tata Starbucks experiencing store-level profitability while overall losses due to expansion.
- When
- FY25.
- Where
- India.
- Why
- Rapid expansion to meet growing coffee demand.
Financial Performance
Expansion Strategy
Profitability
Financial Performance
Individual stores are profitable.
Expansion Strategy
Rapid expansion is the reason for losses.
- Net Loss FY25
- ₹135.7 crore
- Revenue FY25
- ₹1,277 crore
- Store Count
- 479
- New Stores Opened FY25
- 58
- Expansion Focus
- Tier-2 markets
- Planned Outlets by FY28
- 1,000