Coffee company Starbucks on Tuesday announced that it will hire 2,500 refugees in Europe as part of a worldwide hiring plan. The chain said it would hire the refugees at its stores in Europe in eight countries over the next five years, and that recruitment had already begun. The move is part of the company's plan to add 10,000 refugees in 75 countries to its workforce. In Europe, the initiative will focus on stores in Britain, France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Germany and the Netherlands, and the new refugee workers will represent about 8% of the company's European workforce.