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Not just Apple, FedEx, Starbucks are casualties of China's slowdown as well

The coffee behemoth opens a new store in China every few hours and expects it to become the company's largest market

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Angus Whitley | Bloomberg
Apple Inc. has become the latest and biggest corporate casualty from the pullback of the Chinese consumer.

The smartphone maker, which pinned its reduced revenue outlook on a slowdown in the country, joins a growing list of companies struggling as a trade war with the US and an equity selloff weigh on the world’s second-largest economy.

Here are other prominent companies now finding it harder to sell everything from cars to takeaway coffee in China:

FedEx

The US delivery giant slashed its profit forecast in late December -- just three months after raising it. While FedEx Corp.’s woes weren’t limited

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