Lavazza vs Starbucks

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Lavazza is the older of the two, founded in 1895 — 76 years before Starbucks.

Founded: 1895; 1971
Status: Active; Active
Headquarters: Turin, Italy; Seattle, United States
Industry: coffee industry; coffee industry
Founders: Luigi Lavazza; Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker, Zev Siegl
Employees: 3,800; 191,000
Legal form: società per azioni; Profit Corporation
Listed on: Not recorded; Nasdaq
Website: lavazza.com; starbucks.com

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Lavazza and Starbucks.