Tata Starbucks Tata Starbucks TATA Starbucks Private Limited, formerly known as Tata Starbucks Limited, is a 50:50 joint venture company, owned by Tata Global Beverages and Starbucks Corporation, that owns and operates Starbucks outlets in India. The outlets are branded "Starbucks "A Tata Alliance"". In January 2011, Starbucks Corporation and Tata Coffee announced plans to begin opening Starbucks locations in India. Despite a false start in 2007, in January 2012 Starbucks finally announced a 50:50 joint venture with Tata Global Beverages, called Tata Starbucks Ltd., which would own and operate outlets branded "Starbucks, A Tata Alliance". Starbucks had previously attempted to enter
Virgin Mobile Australia Virgin Mobile Australia Virgin Mobile Australia (VMA) was a mobile telecommunications company based in Sydney. It was founded by Richard Branson in 2000, and although it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Optus in 2006, it maintained its own brand identity, customer service, management structure and staff. Virgin Mobile offered postpaid mobile phone and mobile broadband services to approximately one million customers in Australia. In 24 May 2018, parent company Optus has announced it will be phasing out the Virgin Mobile brand, closing 36 Virgin Mobile retail outlets and 200 staff would be affected. Existing customers which numbers a million