STARBUCKS CORPORATION

Starbucks Corporation is a widely held, Nasdaq-listed public company. Under U.S. securities rules, an investor must publicly disclose a stake only once it exceeds 5% of outstanding common stock, so the public record identifies its largest institutional holders rather than a complete shareholder register.

Per Schedule 13G/A filings referenced in Starbucks Corporation’s proxy statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on 26 January 2026, The Vanguard Group reported beneficial ownership of 113,888,463 shares, equivalent to approximately 10% of outstanding common stock, as of 31 October 2025. Capital Group Companies reported a combined position through two affiliated investment managers: Capital Research Global Investors held 76,686,152 shares as of 30 June 2025, and Capital World Investors held 75,625,746 shares as of 31 March 2025. All three managers reported their holdings as passive investments made on behalf of underlying investment funds and clients, rather than as a controlling stake.

These figures sit at a different level than the fund-level entries in this profile’s registry data, which record specific funds such as Income Fund of America and American Balanced Fund – both managed by Capital Group – rather than the parent investment managers named in SEC beneficial-ownership filings. Both sets of records can be accurate at the same time, since they report ownership at different levels of the same managers’ fund complexes.

Ultimate beneficial ownership: No individual has been identified as an ultimate beneficial owner of Starbucks Corporation. Every shareholder disclosed above the 5% SEC reporting threshold is an investment management company holding shares on behalf of numerous underlying fund investors, and no single natural person’s indirect stake can be calculated from these filings.

Data availability: Disclosure of Starbucks Corporation’s shareholders is best described as major shareholders only. Institutional holders above the 5% SEC reporting threshold are identified by name and share count as of the dates above, but the remainder of the company’s more than 1.1 billion outstanding shares is held by retail and smaller institutional investors who are not individually disclosed.

Starbucks Corporation’s board of directors and executive officers are disclosed in its proxy statement filed with the SEC on 26 January 2026, ahead of the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting held on 25 March 2026 (record date 16 January 2026). As of that filing, the board comprised 11 directors: Ritch Allison, Andy Campion, Beth Ford, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, Marissa Mayer, Neal Mohan, Dambisa Moyo, Brian Niccol, Daniel Servitje, Mike Sievert and Wei Zhang. Brian Niccol has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since September 2024, and Jørgen Vig Knudstorp serves as Lead Independent Director.

Named executive officers disclosed in the same filing period include Cathy R. Smith, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Mike Grams, Chief Operating Officer; Brady Brewer, Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks International; and Sara Kelly, Executive Vice President and Chief Partner Officer. All are shown as active in their roles, with no resignation or termination date disclosed as of the information date.

This profile’s registry card, sourced from a Washington Secretary of State annual corporate report, lists individuals – including Kevin R. Johnson and Rosalind G. Brewer as directors – who no longer appear among Starbucks Corporation’s current directors according to the company’s most recent SEC proxy statement. State annual reports are filed periodically and can lag behind boardroom changes; for a company that reports to the SEC, the proxy statement is the more current source for board composition.

Recent officer changes: Cathy R. Smith was appointed Chief Financial Officer effective 24 March 2025, succeeding Rachel Ruggeri, who departed on 7 March 2025 (Val Bauduin served as interim CFO in between). Mike Grams was appointed Chief Operating Officer effective 4 June 2025. Jørgen Vig Knudstorp became Lead Independent Director effective 13 March 2025, succeeding Mellody Hobson, who did not stand for re-election to the board.

Data availability: Neither the Washington Secretary of State’s annual report nor Starbucks Corporation’s SEC filings disclose the nationality or country of residence of individual directors and officers; this information is not publicly available through this jurisdiction’s filings or the company’s federal securities disclosures. The correspondence addresses shown for officers on this profile’s registry card are service addresses associated with the company’s Seattle offices and should not be read as personal or residential addresses.

Starbucks Corporation sits at the top of its own corporate structure; no parent company has been identified, consistent with its status as an independent, Nasdaq-listed public company. Its group includes numerous directly and indirectly held subsidiaries across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, supporting its owned and licensed store operations, coffee sourcing, manufacturing and regional holding functions, including entities such as Starbucks Coffee Holdings (UK) Limited, Starbucks Manufacturing Corporation and Starbucks Coffee International, Inc.

On 2 April 2026, Starbucks Corporation completed a joint venture transaction, first announced in November 2025, under which funds managed by Boyu Capital acquired a 60% interest in a new joint venture holding Starbucks’ mainland China retail operations, comprising approximately 8,000 company-operated coffeehouses transitioning to a licensed operating model. Starbucks Corporation retained a 40% interest in the venture and continues to own and license the Starbucks brand and intellectual property to it. This transaction materially changes the ownership status of the wholly owned China entities previously reflected in this profile’s group-structure data (held historically through Starbucks Coffee (Cayman) Holdings Ltd. and related Hong Kong and mainland Chinese subsidiaries); the specific new joint-venture holding entity has not been individually identified in company registries as of the information date below, so this profile treats the China joint venture as a verified but not yet entity-mapped structural change.

Recent structural changes: Completion of the Starbucks-Boyu Capital China retail joint venture (60% Boyu Capital-managed funds / 40% Starbucks Corporation), effective 2 April 2026, with Starbucks Corporation continuing as brand and intellectual-property licensor to the venture.

Data availability: Corporate-linkage information for Starbucks Corporation is best described as partial. The parent-subsidiary relationships shown are drawn from ownership and shareholder filings in the countries where each subsidiary is registered, but coverage depends on each jurisdiction’s own disclosure rules, and the April 2026 China joint venture had not yet been reflected in individual entity-level registry records as of 9 September 2026.