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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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Starbucks Cuts Deal For Morning Customersmore

Starbucks Corporation is helping to keep their customers caffeinated well past the morning hours. The coffee company...

Starbucks Pays Off Ex-President to Leavemore

He joins another company

Starbucks and the socialism of foolsmore

Commentators’ glee at the closure of 700 coffee shops, and the loss of more than 12,000 jobs, exposes the inhumanity of...

Starbucks details exit package for former executivemore

Starbucks will give James Alling, the former head of its international division, a lump sum payment equal to 12 months’...

Starbucks Roasted by Weak Economymore

share, compared to a profit of $158.3 million, or 21 cents, a year ago in the same period. Starbucks earned 16 cents a...

A Smart Strategy for Starbucksmore

Retailers and restaurateurs tend toward one of two choices when recession strikes: Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) 'After...

For towns like Country Club Hills, a Starbucks closing means much moremore

July but declined to give a specific date or discuss why the store was chosen.'Throughout the history of Starbucks, we...

Starbuck's Vivanno A Good Addition, But Hardly Uniquemore

create a new buzz in the stores, I think they may be disappointed. Recent comments by Starbuck’s chairman-CEO Howard...

Starbucks Suffering From A Fatal "Virus"?more

A Starbucks coffee shop. Like much of the economy, Starbucks isn't completely healthy. But PR executive Michael Levine,...

Starbucks buys a $45 million corporate jetmore

The Gulfstream 550, which was delivered in December, spent its first two weeks in Hawaii for a combined personal and...

Starbucks scaling back CD sales, store racksmore

Starbucks will remove rotating CD racks from the floors of 6,500 stores in the U.S. and Canada by September to focus on...

A Conversation with Michael Gerbermore

which to invent a new business. I'm suggesting anybody could invent the next McDonald's (MCD) or Starbucks (SBUX).

Big Mac's local flavormore

(Fortune Magazine) -- The next time you're in Brazil, say, or Italy or Portugal, and feeling like a taste of Americana,...

"Free" WiFi at Starbucks comes with a pricemore

Yesterday Starbucks began offering free WiFi to coffee drinkers who visited its Card Reward webpage to either sign up...

Starbucks' early logo has critic piping hotmore

The leader of The Resistance was working at his laptop when I arrived. Tall and trim, he wore flip-flops, a black...

Energy drinks may put teenagers at riskmore

contains 258. Mr. Stevens points out that "mainstream" energy drinks often have less caffeine than a cup of...

Starbucks buys Coffee Visionmore

Starbucks is taking over operation of 39 licensed stores in Quebec and Atlantic Canada from Coffee Vision Inc.

Starbucks Sued in New York Over Tip Issue more

A former barista sued Starbucks on Thursday, accusing the company of cheating thousands of baristas in New York State...

TX-Coffee.com Sold to Starbucksmore

You can expect the list of roasters and retailers to be replaced by Starbucks locations in the state of Texas, and the...

The BW 50more

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Following the Line to Innovation - Mobile Applicationsmore

I came across a queue reduction application for the iPhone and iPod Touch yesterday that was intriguing.

New Starbucks Brew Attracts Customers, Flak more

A backlash is brewing against Starbucks Corp. over its Pike Place Roast coffee, which has perked up the company's sales...

Starbucks Expands Breakfast Menumore

Starbucks will alter its breakfast menu to appeal to a wider audience, in the coffee-chain's latest restructuring and...

Starbucks Gold Card Offers 2-Hours of Wi-Fi a Daymore

Anyone who gets the new Starbucks Gold Card gets 2 hours of free Wi-Fi access per day.

Anyone have some spare change for Starbucks?more

Seattle Post-Intelligencer cartoonist David Horsey exaggerates Starbucks' plight a bit, but he makes his point that the...

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