Starbucks Sales Go Green
Tazo green tea beverages, a summer promotion at Starbucks locations in US and Canada, helped increase companys July sales to $495 million, a 21% growth over the same period last year. Made with matcha tea - tea leaves that are picked young and pulverized into powder - the drink debuted in Taiwan and Singapore in 2001, and has since been added in Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Korea, Hong Kong and Malaysia. The new drinks will be in stores on these shores through Sept. 30.