On Feb 26, 2008 Starbucks shut down all its US stores for several hours to train 135,000 employees in a single shot.
As of January 2008, Starbucks employs over 170,000 people.
Starbucks
Almost 86 %
Smyrna, Georgia. They employ approximately 209 people there.
At last count there were 16,635 franchises in the United States. Starbucks has some thoughts of some day surpassing McDonalds in franchise numbers.
For fiscal year 2010, Starbucks' revenue was $10.71 billion US.
Probably half a billion
25%
As of 2010 Eastman Kodak had 18,800 employees. They employ people all over the world including countries such as: Canada, Germany, China, UK, and US.
Koch Industries employs around 120,000 individuals globally, with approximately 60,000 of them based in the United States.
Microsoft has a headquarters in India and its reported within the country they employ around 5,000 workers. It is also well known that within India the headquarters situated in Hyderabad is the largest development centre for the company outside the US
There are Starbucks Coffee Shops in all 50 U.S. states, in the District of Columbia, and in the unincorporated U.S. territory of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. There are currently no Starbucks in any of the other four unincorporated U.S. territories.
Unknown present count, but they plan on opening up about 700 new stores in 2009.