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Starbucks Opens its First Cafe in Plovdiv

SOFIA (Bulgaria), August 15 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's AmRest Coffee, part of Polish restaurant operator AmRest Holdings, said on Wednesday it opened the first coffee shop under the Starbucks brand in the city of Plovdiv. The new store, located in Mall Plovdiv shopping centre, offers a commercial area of 240 square metres with seating for 121 people, AmRest Coffee said in a statement.

Starbucks stores to open in "coffee-loving" Serbia

"The first Starbucks store will be opened in Belgrade later this year, the city with a long coffee-loving history," AmRest Holdings announced in a press release.

The company said it was the lead operator of Starbucks stores in the Central European region, while Serbia will be "another new market for the company to open the first Starbucks store."

AmRest Acquires Starbucks Businesses in Bulgaria, Romania

The Bulgarian business of US coffee chain Starbucks, which is currently held by Greek firm Marinopoulos Coffee Company, will change its owner.

AmRest Holdings SE, the largest independent chain restaurant operator in Central and Eastern Europe, announced in a media statement on its website that it was acquiring the Bulgarian and Romanian businesses of Starbucks.