Starbucks Algerian store in Algiers. In January 2011, Starbucks and Tata Coffee, Asia's largest coffee plantation company, announced plans for a strategic alliance to bring Starbucks to India and also to source and roast coffee beans at Tata Coffee's Kodagu facility. Despite a false start in 2007, in January 2012, Starbucks announced a 50:50 joint venture with Tata Global Beverages called Tata Starbucks. Tata Starbucks will own and operate Starbucks outlets in India as "Starbucks Coffee "A Tata Alliance"". Starbucks opened its first store in India in Mumbai on October 19, 2012. In February 2011, Starbucks started selling their coffee in
Virgin Mobile the mobile operator to remove the Virgin Mobile brand from the marketplace. Virgin Singapore was launched in October 2001 as a joint venture with Singtel. The operations were closed down by October 2002 after failing to attract a significant number of customers. Failure of the joint venture was attributed to a saturated mobile market and Virgin Mobile's positioning as a "premium" brand. On 1 March 2008, Virgin launched the Mobile brand in India through a franchise arrangement with NTT DoCoMo. This was Virgin's seventh launch globally and its largest. However, on 29 March 2008, the Department of Telecom (DoT) cleared