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# Starbucks Business Model & Revenue Engine

## Direct Answer

Starbucks reports revenue across 4 business segments in its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K. North America is the largest, with $27.4 billion of revenue (74% of the total), followed by International at $7.8 billion (21%). 73% of revenue came from the United States.

## How Does Starbucks Make Money?

North America supplies 74% of revenue, so Starbucks's results move mostly with that one business; the others matter more for diversification than for the headline number. Between fiscal 2024 and 2025, Corporate and Other grew fastest (+106.4%) and North America slowest (+1.3%), so the revenue mix tilts toward Corporate and Other while that gap lasts.

| Segment | FY2025 revenue | FY2024 revenue | Share of revenue | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| North America | $27.4 billion | $27.0 billion | 73.6% | 1.3% |
| International | $7.8 billion | $7.3 billion | 21.0% | 6.6% |
| Channel Development | $1.9 billion | $1.8 billion | 5.0% | 5.8% |
| Corporate and Other | $120 million | $58 million | 0.3% | 106.4% |

![Bar chart of Starbucks revenue by segment for fiscal 2025: North America 73.6%, International 21.0%, Channel Development 5.0%, Corporate and Other 0.3%.](https://www.getswoopr.com/images/charts/starbucks-business-model-segment-mix.webp)
*Starbucks revenue by segment as a share of total revenue, from the table above. The largest is highlighted. Select the chart to open it full size.*

## Which Starbucks Segments Earn the Most?

| Segment | FY2025 segment operating income | Segment margin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| North America | $3.2 billion | 11.5% |
| International | $950 million | 12.1% |
| Channel Development | $885 million | 47.3% |
| Corporate and Other | -$2.1 billion | -1717.0% |

Segment operating income is the profit measure Starbucks reports to its chief operating decision maker for each segment. It usually leaves out corporate costs that are not allocated to a segment, so the segments usually add up to more than consolidated operating income, and margins are comparable within Starbucks more safely than against another company.

## Where Does Starbucks's Revenue Come From?

Regions follow the definitions in the filing; most companies assign revenue by customer location.

| Region | FY2025 revenue | FY2024 revenue | Share of revenue | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| United States | $27.1 billion | $26.7 billion | 72.9% | 1.6% |
| Outside the United States | $6.9 billion | $6.5 billion | 18.6% | 6.8% |
| China | $3.2 billion | $3.0 billion | 8.5% | 5.1% |

## What the Segment Figures Do Not Show

The rows above add up to 100% of Starbucks's reported revenue for fiscal 2025; the difference is intersegment eliminations, corporate revenue or items the company reports outside its segments. Segment definitions are management's choice and change when a company reorganizes, in which case it restates prior years in the next filing, so a multi-year comparison should use the figures from a single filing. Revenue shows where sales come from, not where profit or cash is earned: a small segment can carry most of the margin.

## Where These Numbers Come From

Every figure on this page is a value Starbucks reported in the segment note and revenue disclosures of its Form 10-K filed November 14, 2025 (accession 0000829224-25-000114), read from the SEC's Financial Statement Data Sets. The prior-year column is the comparative figure from that same filing, so it reflects any restatement for a change in segments. Category names are the company's own XBRL labels, lightly reformatted for reading.

Rows that only total other rows (for example a "Products" line beside the individual products) are left out so nothing is counted twice. This page is educational and describes reported history for fiscal 2025; it is not a forecast or a recommendation.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What are Starbucks's business segments?

In its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, Starbucks reports revenue for North America, International, Channel Development and Corporate and Other.

### Which part of Starbucks brings in the most revenue?

North America, with $27.4 billion of revenue in fiscal 2025, or 74% of the total.

### How much of Starbucks's revenue comes from outside the United States?

27% in fiscal 2025, by the geographic breakdown Starbucks reports in its Form 10-K. Companies assign revenue to regions differently (customer location, shipping address or selling entity), so check the filing's definition before comparing companies.

## References

- [SEC EDGAR: STARBUCKS CORP Form 10-K filed November 14, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000114/sbux-20250928.htm)
- [SEC EDGAR: STARBUCKS CORP annual and quarterly filings](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=829224&type=10-K)
- [SEC: EDGAR application programming interfaces (XBRL frames and submissions data)](https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces)
- [SEC: Financial Statement Data Sets](https://www.sec.gov/data-research/sec-markets-data/financial-statement-data-sets)

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