Mellody Louise Hobson is a businessperson who has been the head of 8 different companies and currently holds the position of Chairman at Starbucks Corp. and President & Director at Ariel Capital Management Holdings, Inc., Chairman & President of Ariel Investment Trust and Co-CEO & President at Ariel Investments LLC (both are subsidiaries of Ariel Capital Management Holdings, Inc.). She is also Chairman of After School Matters, Inc., Co-Chairman at Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and Member of Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. and on the board of 13 other companies.
In her past career Mellody Louise Hobson occupied the position of Member of Reliant Equity Investors LLC, Chairman for DWA Holdings LLC and Chairman & Member-Executive Committee at The Economic Club of Chicago (Illinois).
She received an undergraduate degree from Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.
Starbucks Corporation specializes in owning and operating coffee shops. The group also develops a coffee roasting activity. Net sales break down by source of revenue as follows:
- sales within company-operated coffee shops (82.7%): as of September 28, 2025, owned a network of 21,514 coffee shops under the Starbucks Coffee®, Teavana®, Ethos®, Starbucks Reserve® and Princi® brands;
- sales within licensed stores (1.7%): 19,476 licensed stores located primarily in the United States (6,813), Korea (2,077), Latin America (1,813) and the United Kingdom (900);
- other (5.6%): sales of coffee, beverages and food products for companies, hotels, hospitals, airlines, etc.
Net sales break down by family of products between beverages (60.6%), food (19%) and other (20.4%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (72.9%), China (8.5%) and other (18.6%).
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