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I'm a top global brand, having begun with a handful of beans in Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971. In 1991 I became the first privately owned U.S. company to let part-time workers participate in a stock option program. I went public in 1992. You'll find my more-than-10,000 retail locations in China, Kuwait, Indonesia, Switzerland, Peru and elsewhere. I offer more than 30 blends of coffee, along with teas, other beverages, foodstuffs, music and more. Customers have loaded more than $2.5 billion onto my cards. I was a first-mate pursuer of Moby-Dick. Who am I?

( Answer: Starbucks )

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