Starbucks sees more than 3,000 new Americas stores

Starbucks Corp intends to open at least 3,000 net new stores in the Americas region by 2017, the company said on Wednesday.

At the outset of a New York meeting on its growth strategy, the company also said China should become its second-largest market by 2014.

(Reporting By Lisa Baertlein; Writing By Ben Berkowitz; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)