--FILE--les clients Chinois la queue pour entrer dans un café de café Starbucks dans la ville de Xiangfan, province de Hubei en Chine centrale, 5 février 2016. Starbucks
--FILE--Chinese customers queue up to enter a cafe of Starbucks Coffee in Xiangyang city, central China's Hubei province, 5 February 2016. Starbucks Corp. is taking its Teavana to China, aiming to prove a coffee chain can sell tea in a country that drinks more of it than any other place. Teavana-branded tea will be sold for the first time in Starbucks stores in China in the fiscal year that ends in September, the company said Wednesday (23 March 2016) in a statement issued during its annual shareholders meeting in Seattle. The company already sells some green- and iced-tea drinks in the Asian nation. It's clear why Starbucks is looking to expand with Teavana: Globally, tea sales are more than $100 billion. Starbucks, which has boosted revenue by expanding beyond its core coffee drinks, purchased Teavana in 2013. Starbucks's tea sales jumped 17 percent to almost $1 billion in 2015, led by growth in iced tea.