The multinational coffee retailer Starbucks is looking at sourcing coffee beans from China's Yunnan Province and the company is reportedly planning to build a coffee raw material purchase base in China.

Starbucks has announced that it has selected Baxy as its new milk supplier because the milk products of its original milk supplier Mengniu were tainted by melamine.

In response to the milk scandal in China, the international coffee shop chain Starbucks has stopped selling all products that contain milk in its Chinese stores while launching new soymilk coffee products.

Mannings, the Hong Kong retail giant, has opened its first shop in Shanghai, marking the beginning of the company's expansion in mainland China.

President Chain Store Corporation has announced that the company has formally received the franchise rights of 7-Eleven convenience stores in Shanghai and the first store in the city will be opened before the end of 2008.