A battle years in the making has finally ended between Starbucks (SBUX +0.11%) and Kraft Foods (KRFT +0.00%). An arbiter has ordered Starbucks to pay Kraft $2.8 billion -- the cost equivalent of 602 million gingerbread lattes -- after the former pulled out on a partnership to put Starbucks coffee on grocery shelves. In the lead story from Investor Beat, Motley Fool analysts David Meier and Matt Koppenheffer discuss if this is something for Starbucks -- and its shareholders -- to worry about.
Starbucks to Pay Out 602 Million Gingerbread Lattes
By Alison Southwick, Matt Koppenheffer, and David Meier – Nov 13, 2013 at 5:45PM
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