On the Record · Starbucks
Starbucks competitors, on the record
The companies whose own annual reports name Starbucks as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.
Who Starbucks names
Starbucks’s annual reports for 2022 to 2025 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.
Who names Starbucks
Companies whose own annual reports name Starbucks as a competitor.
Word for word“Our direct competitors in the functional energy drink sector include but are not limited to Monster Beverage Corporation, Red Bull GmbH, The Coca-Cola Company, Pepsi, Keurig Dr Pepper Inc., Nestlé S.A., BlueTriton Brands, Starbucks Corporation, Congo Brands and Molson Coors.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Although new competitors may emerge at any time due to the low barriers to entry, our competitors include: 7-Eleven, Burger King, Cold Stone Creamery, Cumberland Farms, Dairy Queen, McDonald’s, Panera Bread, Quick Trip, Starbucks, Subway, Taco Bell, Tim Hortons, WaWa, and Wendy’s, among others.” 10-K for 2019
Word for word“Our primary competitors include Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Starbucks Corporation, The J.M. Smucker Company, The Kraft Heinz Company, and Nestlé S.A.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our products compete with all liquid refreshments, including TCCC, Starbucks Corporation, PepsiCo, Red Bull GmbH, KDP, Molson Coors, Constellation Brands, AB InBev, The Boston Beer Company and The Mark Anthony Group.” 10-K for 2025
Read from Starbucks’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023, 10-K for 2022) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2025-11-14. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.