Mainland coffee bean prices are expected to fall to less than 15 yuan (US$2.45) per kilogram based on futures prices on the New York market, National Business Daily reported Monday, citing the Yunnan ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-28
Chinese media are finally discovering something that I've known all along, namely that Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) coffee here is ridiculously overpriced. Some might say a new investigative report from n ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-23
Henry Leung is 36, university-educated and lives alone in the 70-square-meter apartment in Tsimshatsui he inherited from his parents. Despite a fine education, he cannot find a good job; he earns a li ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-21
A cup of Starbucks latte costs US$3 in United States, but in Shanghai, you have to shell out 27 yuan (US$4.4), a 46 percent mark-up, for the same brew. Given the average discretionary income of an off ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-10
