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Starbucks rent arrears of more than 10.87 million yuan is enforced?!

Published: 2026-04-04 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/04/04, Today, Starbucks once again entered the hot search list because the heavenly eye inspection showed that Guangdong Starbucks Coffee Co., Ltd. added a piece of information about the person subject to execution, with the execution target of 10.877142 million yuan, and the enforcement court was Guangzhou Tianhe District people's Court. The related case is a lease contract dispute. A company as big as Starbucks

Today, Starbucks once again entered the hot search list because the heavenly eye inspection showed that Guangdong Starbucks Coffee Co., Ltd. added a piece of information about the person subject to execution, with the execution target of 10.877142 million yuan, and the enforcement court was Guangzhou Tianhe District people's Court. The related case is a lease contract dispute.

A company as big as Starbucks still owes rent? So we looked through the verdict of the case. After opening the judgment, I immediately saw that I was at a loss. You can check the details of the case on the China referee Writing website. Because there are too many contents, we do not give a detailed explanation.

In this case, Starbucks is not the defendant, Starbucks has not been charged, the whole case is probably caused by "layers of subletting". Through the statement of the judgment, the content is roughly summarized as follows: Starbucks rented a berth in the third lessor, but Starbucks did not pay the rent during this period because the third lessor and the second and first lessor filed a lawsuit. This application is enforced to require Starbucks to make up for the rent owed.

The leased site of the Starbucks shop suspected of the case belongs to the Bank of Guangzhou. The Bank of Guangzhou rented the site to Company An at first, and then Company A sublet it to Company B. After getting the Mao embryo site, Company B invested a lot of money to decorate and divide it, and then sublet it to a number of merchants, including Starbucks. This case is that Company A defaulted on the rent of Guangzhou Bank. If Company B withdraws the rent, it will lose a lot! So I agreed to pay back the money for Company A. Later, in the process of repaying the money, Company B felt that the amount of rent and interest demanded by the Bank of Guangzhou was too high, so it was unwilling to continue to pay it back after repaying part of it. So the Bank of Guangzhou asked the merchants of A, B and B companies to settle the rent quickly through the court, and then vacated the shop to return it.

In the defense of this incident, Starbucks stressed that the company has been paying the rent normally, and that it has not paid the rent during this period of time. It simply feels that the lease may be terminated, so it does not know who to pay the rent to, and wants to wait until after the lawsuit is over. Determine who is the payer of the rent. To this end, Starbucks exercised the right of uneasy defense and suspended the payment of rent.

In this lawsuit, the Bank of Guangzhou finally terminated the lease contract with Company A, and Company B and the merchants subleased had to hand over the rent owed during the lawsuit to the Bank of Guangzhou. Due to the withdrawal of Company A, if Company B and the subleased merchants want to continue to use merchants, they will have to re-sign the lease with the Bank of Guangzhou, otherwise they will have to move out.

In theory, this lawsuit has little to do with Starbucks, which is also responsible for assisting in the return of Starbucks as a third party. However, Starbucks may not take the initiative to pay the rent after the outcome of the lawsuit, so the Bank of Guangzhou will apply to the court for enforcement.

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