Starbucks is selling its cold-pressed juice brand, as the company focuses on its coffee-drink business and improving its stores and relations with its cafe workers under interim Chief Executive Howard Schultz.
Fresh-food maker Bolthouse Farms Inc. said it agreed to acquire Starbucks’s Evolution Fresh line of juices, which currently are sold in Starbucks cafes and supermarkets. Terms of the deal, which Bolthouse said is expected to close later this year, weren’t disclosed. Starbucks said the financial impacts of the deal weren’t expected to be material.
