Acquisitions and Divestitures

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

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Acquisitions and Divestitures

Acquisitions, Divestitures and Strategic Alliance

Fiscal 2019

In the second quarter of fiscal 2019, we sold our company-operated retail businesses in France and the Netherlands to Alsea, S.A.B. de C.V. converting these operations to fully licensed markets. These transactions did not have a material impact to our condensed consolidated financial statements.

Fiscal 2018

We entered into an agreement on May 6, 2018 to establish the Global Coffee Alliance with Nestlé. On August 26, 2018, we licensed the rights to market, sell and distribute Starbucks consumer packaged goods and foodservice products in authorized channels to Nestlé. We received an upfront payment of approximately $7 billion consisting primarily of prepaid royalties which was recorded as current and long-term deferred revenue. See Note 2, Revenue Recognition, for the accounting treatment.

On March 23, 2018, we sold our company-operated retail business in Brazil to SouthRock converting these operations to a fully licensed market. This transaction did not have a material impact to our condensed consolidated financial statements.

On December 31, 2017, we acquired the remaining 50% interest of our East China joint venture (“East China”) from President Chain Store (Hong Kong) Holding Ltd. and Kai Yu (BVI) collectively, “Uni-President Group” or “UPG”, for approximately $1.4 billion and resulted in a total gain of $1.4 billion that is not subject to income tax, and was presented as gain resulting from acquisition of joint venture on our condensed consolidated statements of earnings in fiscal 2018.

Concurrently, with the purchase of our East China joint venture, we sold our 50% interest in President Starbucks Coffee Taiwan Limited, our joint venture operations in Taiwan, to UPG for approximately $181.2 million. The transaction resulted in a pre-tax gain of $156.6 million which was included in net gain resulting from divestiture of certain operations on our condensed consolidated statements of earnings.