Starbucks corners market on French-press ‘Clover’

SEATTLE Starbucks Coffee is rolling out a machine-made, French press-style coffee that chief executive Howard Schultz has described as one of the “largest single initiatives” in the chain’s history, one that resulted in the acquisition of a boutique manufacturer. —

Starbucks told shareholders meeting here this month that it had purchased the maker of the Clover brewing system, whose