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85C Bakery Café is a Taiwanese chain of coffee shops run by Gourmet Master Co.,Ltd. The company has an estimated yearly revenue of $200 million and was founded in 2004 by teashop owner Wu Cheng-Hsueh. It is known as the "Starbucks of Taiwan". They have over 1200 stores across the world, of which more than half are in Mainland China. 85C was public listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in November 2010 with 3.85 million shares in its IPO.
Founded in 2004 with original concept of offering "coffee+bakery" shop format as a pioneer, 85C keeps its ongoing effort in innovation both from store format and new product development. 85C experienced the journey of providing consumers with comfortable instore dining experience for occasions such like afternoon tea to cater to the ongoing needs of convience by offering online purchase for delivery and also from new product development perspective introducing 10-12 new products each month. 85C has 8 factories in China and 20,000+ employees of which 3500 are bakers and pastry chefs.
