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STARBUCKS

Founded in 1971 in Seattle's Pike Place Market, Starbucks is the world's largest purveyor of premium coffee. Starbucks is named for the first mate in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. The original name of the company was Starbucks Coffee, Tea and Spices. Its mission: "To establish Starbucks as the premier purveyor of the finest coffee in the world while maintaining our uncompromising principles as we grow." In fiscal 2007, revenues were $9.4 billion with operating income of $1.1 billion.

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Howard Schultz on Reinventing Starbucksmore

In launching its new Pike Place Roast, Starbucks aims to reaffirm its position as the world's highest-quality purveyor...

Starbucks Nationmore

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24 Hour Starbucksmore

...us to a 24 hour Starbucks, next to ... with all kinds of people, drinking coffee and enjoying

Be your own barista: Starbucks lets clients pour their own coffee in t...more

Starbucks is testing letting its customer pour their own coffee at some stores as part of an effort to halt two...

Starbucks: Stay as long as you want | Rafe's Radarmore

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that some New York coffee shops were pulling the plug on customers that...

With All Else Failing, Starbucks Tries Social Mediamore

With Starbucks' stock beaten down from its mighty highs of $47 to recent lows of $17 in the face of strong competition...

Starbucks Announces New Strategy & Acquisition of Coffee Equipt Comore

Starbucks rethinks their strategy in light of poor performance. Announces acquisition of Coffee Equpt Co which makes...

Starbucks Plots New Course more

AdAge summary of the Starbucks shareholders meeting and CEO Howard Schultz's commitment to "fight to the...

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Latest Starbucks Buzzword: 'Lean' Japanese Techniquesmore

Starbucks Corp. built its business as the anti-fast-food joint. Now, the recession and growing competition are forcing...

Why Starbucks lost its mojomore

It became too common to be trendy – and lost its appeal.

Starbucks linked to Cheesecake Factory?more

Cheesecake Factory Inc. shares spiked on Tuesday after an analyst upgraded the stock and speculated on a partnership...

Anne Applebaum - A Starbucks State of Mindmore

Yes, Starbucks has come to Warsaw at last. The brand might be out of fashion in the States; the company might be losing...

Snoozebucksmore

t’s not a secret that Starbucks has been in a slump for the past year. Through September 2008 profit has dipped 97% and...

Study: Social Media Pays more

One of the major hurdles to increased spending on social media has been lingering skepticism about what kind of payoff...

Starbucks: Big Investors' Divorce Groundsmore

Maverick Capital is the latest large shareholder to bail, perhaps not willing to wait and see if CEO Schultz can turn...

Bono joins Starbucks to help AIDS victimsmore

Rock singer Bono gave a surprise speech Wednesday at Starbucks' managers conference in New Orleans, bringing star power...

Schultz took Starbucks' new jet to Hawaii for the holidaysmore

Schultz took Starbucks' new jet to Hawaii for the holidays Howard Schultz apparently used Starbucks' new corporate jet...

Starbucks UK chief resignsmore

Phil Broad, the Starbucks UK and Ireland managing director, has resigned less than a week after he assured The Times...

More Tanning Salons in the Tri-Cities than Starbucks and McDonaldsmore

TRI-CITIES, Wash-- A new study says in most major cities there are more tanning salons than two businesses known for...

Restaurants Take Trip to Storemore

Restaurant chains are reaching out to consumers in an unexpected place: supermarket aisles. As the economy has soured,...

Starbucks: What’s in a name? more

Walk into the newest Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) and you may be surprised. If the beer and wine does not get your...

Starbucks faces another NLRB complaintmore

Starbucks Corp. is facing another complaint from the National Labor Relations Board alleging that the gourmet coffee...

And That's Why You Never Use the Internet at Starbucksmore

I got an email today from Dimension regarding the straight-to-DVD sci-fi horror, Pulse 2. This is the plot:

Starbucks swings to loss on store closure costsmore

Coffee chain Starbucks Corp., which is closing stores and cutting office jobs amid weak sales in the U.S.

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