Imaging if there was no more coffee in this world, how would you feel? Nowadays, coffee becomes an important part of people’s life. People who often work overtime, they drink coffee because caffeine can make you awake; people who have to wake up early in the morning, they drink coffee because instead of making breakfast, coffee is more convenient; people drink coffee during the free time, because it also tastes good. I am interesting in talking about Starbuck, because many other food service companies also offer coffee and at a lower price. The average price that Starbucks offers is much expensive than other competitors, but a lot of people still like to purchase coffee from Starbucks. Introduction to company The first Starbucks appeared in 1971, which was located in Seattle’s Pick Place Market, and the founders were Gordon Bowker, Jerry Baldwin, and Zev Siegl. In the beginning, they learned about coffee from Alfred Peet, the owner of Peet’s Coffee. He helped the three founders to open another store in 1972. After eight years, Siegl left the company to manage other business. Later on, Starbucks was continuing grow. In 1988, it already had 26 stores. Four years later, it operated 165 stores. In 2011, it has more than 17,000 stores in over 50 countries. Out of existing 17,000 stores, approximately 8,870 stores are company-owned, 8,139 are licensed stores. As for today, Starbucks has more than 20,000 stores in over 60 countries. The headquarters is located the same place where the three founders opened the first store, Seattle. Other large divisions are in Japan, United Kingdom, China and Australia. The mission of Starbucks can be divided into 6 branches; the mission for its coffee; the mission for its partners; the mission f... ... middle of paper ... ... 2014, from http://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/2660085bf62e4246a91a8024f500cb37.pdf Starbucks buys coffee farm to control sourcing, develop new beans. (2013, March 19). Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 20, 2014, from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-03-19/business/chi-starbucks-buys-coffee-farm-in-costa-rica-20130319_1_starbucks-plans-starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-seattle-based-coffee-giant Starbucks CompanyProfile. (n.d.). Starbucks CompanyProfile. Retrieved May 19, 2014, from http://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/F62C45CD8A8B4699BEFC60A2618F0431.pdf Starbucks CompanyTimeline. (n.d.). Starbucks Coffee Company. Retrieved May 20, 2014, from http://www.starbucks.com/assets/e56b2a6b08244aaab0632dc6ac25ad0d.pdf Working at Starbucks. (n.d.). Starbucks Coffee Company. Retrieved May 19, 2014, from http://www.starbucks.com/careers/working-at-starbucks
Starbucks is a corporation that offers specialty coffees, coffee beans, cold blended beverages, pastries, coffee related products and machines, and tea. Starbucks opened its first location in 1971 in Seattle. By the year 2000, Starbucks had over 3300 locations, and it is still growing.
In 1971, three former University of San Francisco students opened the first Starbucks coffeehouse in Seattle, Washington to simply sell freshly roasted coffee beans. The continued success over the course of the next twelve years, attracted current owner Howard Schultz. As Marketing Director,
The company started its activity in 1971 as small coffee shop located in Seattle specialized in selling whole arabica coffee beans. After being taken over by Howard Schultz in 1982, following a rapid and impressive growth, by mid 2002 the company was the dominant specialty-coffee brand in North America, running about 4,500 stores, 400 international stores and 930 licenses.
In April 2003, Starbucks completed the purchase of Seattle's Best Coffee and Torrefazione Italia from AFC Enterprises, bringing the total number of Starbucks-operated locations worldwide to more than 6,400. On September 14, 2006, it was announced by rival Diedrich Coffee that it would sell most of its company-owned retail stores to Starbucks.
Starbucks Corporation was an American company founded in 1971 in Seattle, WA. In the beginning, it wa...
Starbucks is a leading company of the finest coffee in the world. Starbuck uses high quality whole bean coffee, and sells a variety of pastries, other unique beverages, and coffee-related accessories and equipment. As a part of their mission, Starbucks strives to provide a work environment treating the customer, as well as employees, with respect and dignity. Furthermore, the company embraces diversity as a major component in the way Starbucks does business. In addition, Starbucks subscribes to the highest standards of excellence to the purchasing, roasting and fresh delivery of their coffee. Starbucks believes that the company should satisfy customers every time they serve a cup of coffee and contribute to the communities and the environment while recognizing that profitability is essential to their success (Starbucks.com, 2008).
Starbucks began with Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegel, and Gordon Bowker in Seattle, Washington in 1971. At that time they called it Starbucks Coffee, Tea, and Spice. Their respective love for coffee and tea from around the world inspired them to venture out of their respective disciplines. With the success of a similar establishment in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bowker, Baldwin and Siegel figured they could also build such success in Seattle. With their individual investment of $1,350 and $5000 in loans, Starbucks began. Much credit goes to Alfred Peet a Dutch Immigrant who opened Peet's Coffee and Tea in Berkeley, California in 1966. Having visited Peet's store numerous times, Bowker Siegel and Baldwin learned the art of dark roasting coffee the European way to bring out its full flavor. Starbucks started out as a coffee bean and tea retailer. By the early 1980s, Starbucks had four stores in the Seattle area and Zev Siegel left the partnership after suffering burnout. Jerry Baldwin took over day-to-day management and Gordon Bowker stayed as an owner with other outside interests. All that changed in 1981 when Howard Schultz entered the picture. Schultz visited Starbucks out of curiosity due to the fact that they were selling so many of his company's products. Schultz worked as a vice president and general manager for a Swedish company based in the United States that made stylish kitchen equipment and coffeemakers. Schultz was so impressed with Starbucks, that by the time he returned to New York, he had decided to become a Starbucks. In 1982, Schultz became the head of marketing and oversaw the retail stores. Schultz came with many innovating ideas for Starbucks that was rejected by Baldwin and Bowker, but he never gave up. Between 1987 2003 Starbucks went from seventeen stores to seven thousand two hundred and twenty-five stores one thousand six hundred of which are in foreign countries.
Starbucks Coffee Co. throughout its existence since 1971, with its great management team, innovative style of thinking and strong will to succeed in compliance with its mission and vision statements has and continues to overcome its barriers by recognizing such strategic planning as those included in Porter’s five forces model. The model includes such components as Barriers to Entry, Supplier and Buyer Power, Threat of Substitutions, and most importantly the Industry Competitors. Starbucks throughout its existence has addressed each and every one of Porters forces with a positive edge that has greatly contributed to the success of the company. Starbucks took many risks and spent capital that it really did not have. To build a corporation based on intuition and a trip to Italy has undoubtedly paid off in the long run which is evident throughout the year that Starbucks has been in operation. Howard Schultz, CEO and founder of the company, has stuck to his conviction not to “sacrifice long-term integrity and values for short-term profit.” He knew if he played his cards right and stuck to his guns it would only be a matter of time that Starbucks would become the world largest coffee industry in the world. He wanted the company to become and international outlet for coffee consumers which not only included men and woman but also addresses the needs and wants of those of all ages and nationalities, children, students and any other category of people that have and interest in Starbucks diverse product line. With constant dedication to the company’s vision and mission statement and believing in the value of market share and name recognition and how critical they are to the success of the company, he was able to achieve his goal within a few years. During this time of course he has been able to open a total of 1,100 stores and continues to do so until this day.
Starbucks is a multination corporation, which first opened in 1971 in Seattle. It started off as a single store in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market.
In 1971, the first Starbucks was founded at the University of San Francisco by a group of three students, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker. These three students later met with an Alfred Peet, who inspired the group to start a coffee bean distributing business later named Starbucks. The very first store was opened in Seattle, WA, on 2000 Western street from 1971 to 1976 and was later relocated to 1912 Pike Place where it still remains standing to this day. When thinking of what to call their store they thought back to the famous book Moby Dick for inspiration. ‘“Bowker recalls that Terry Heckler, with whom Bowker owned an advertising agency, thought words beginning with "st" were powerful. The founders brainstormed a list of words
I decided to choose a brand that is recognizable and beloved by most of the world. One with very little negative connotations surrounding it in common conversation. After researching the company extensively, and with very little difficulty given its popularity, I’ve learned just what makes Starbucks Coffee such a powerhouse of a company. They have outshined all other companies related to the coffee industry in terms of profit, storefronts, and worldwide reach. All of that growth and development from a company that sprouted only 46 years ago in Seattle Washington.
The year was 1971 when three partners opened the first Starbucks. The business started out as a local roaster and retailer of whole bean and ground coffee and as the business grew they took inspiration from the Italian coffeehouse tradition. The Italian coffeehouses are a place for conversation and a sense of community, a stop between home and work. This experience was something Starbucks wanted to bring to the United States. They had found their niche. Following this, Starbucks grew quickly and began opening several stores all over the country, and shortly thereafter the world.
In 1971, three young entrepreneurs began the Starbucks Corporation in Seattle Washington. Their key goal was to sell whole coffee beans. Soon after, Starbucks began experiencing huge growth, opening five stores all of which had roasting facilities, sold coffee beans and room for local restaurants. In 1987, Howard Schultz bought Starbucks from its original owners for $4 million after expanding Starbucks by opening three coffee bars. These coffee bars were based on an idea that was originally proposed to the owner who recruited him into the corporation as manager of retail and marketing. Overall, Schultz strategy for Starbucks was to grow slow. Starbucks went on to suffer financial losses and overhead operating expenses rose as Starbucks continued its slow expansion process. Despite the initial financial troubles, Starbucks went on to expand to 870 stores by 1996. Sales increased 84%, which brought the corporation out of debt. With the growing success, Starbucks planned to open 2000 stores by year 2000.
With clear core values towards providing quality coffee, the best service, and atmosphere, Starbucks has enjoyed great success since it was founded 30 years ago. The company has being doing very well for last 11 years with 5% or more store sales increase, even with the rest economy still reeling from the post-9/11 recession. However recent research, conducted to Starbucks, have showed some concerns regarding company’s problem meeting customers’ expectations.
services, the company doesn’t only sell regular coffee but a unique taste. It differentiates coffee-drinking experience to its in-store customers and meets their implicit demand, which, in turn, helps it in surviving in the highly competitive foodservice retail space. Starbucks have done great achievements, through which customers were provided affordable price of coffee, with an excellent quality and friendly environment. They intended to prove for the customer that their main goal is customer’s satisfaction that has been ethically and responsibly achieved. Starbucks, in their annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report, notes “customers