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The UK business, which runs or franchises 791 coffee shops, made a pretax profit of £1.05m last year, Starbucks said.
On the street, loudspeakers set up outside most shops made it difficult to hear or speak above the music.
The banners stood in front of small shops made of concrete and white tile, and they seemed to grow more insistent with every mile.
But on the other side of the ledger, Sephora, the global chain of perfume and makeup shops, made a profit in the United States for the first time last year.
Here in Barcelona, José Rodríguez, the owner of A Porta Galega, a traditional tapas cafe in the hip neighborhood of Eixample, said cut-rate prices for everything from beer to shampoo at Chinese-owned shops made it impossible for Spaniards to compete.
But this should count as progress compared to the days when gold shops made a killing in trading gold bars bartered for opium 850km north of Bangkok where Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet an area which still is called "Golden Triangle".
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