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STAR QUALITY
STARBUCKS raised its financial forecasts for 2010 in the latest sign a year-long turnaround effort is boosting margins and putting it back on track for growth. The coffee company, which has been slashing outlets, laying people off and reducing costs, raised its target for fiscal 2010 earnings — excluding items — to growth of 15 per cent to 20 per cent from a previously forecast growth range of 13 per cent to 18 per cent.