Unbranding Starbucks Whitney Webb MDSE 4660 July 10‚ 2013 The University of North Texas The coffee industry has been booming since the 1950’s mostly because of the explosion of the café style coffee houses in the 1990’s that have followed industry forerunners such as Starbucks (Sangeetha‚ 2010). Coffee is the second leading commodity worldwide‚ with a market share worth over $100 billion and over 500 billion cups consumed annually (Goldshein‚ 2011). Coffee is produced in over 50 countries
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Specifically‚ the paper will examine a CBC News article‚ ‘Starbucks Gives Its Prices a Jolt’ from 2006‚ which states Starbucks coffees and whole beans prices are increasing by 1.9% and 3.9%‚ respectively. Why is the price of a cup of Starbucks coffee rising? The CBC News article quotes the Starbucks spokeswoman who explains‚ “the company decided to charge more because costs‚ including fuel and energy‚ are going up.” In other words‚ Starbucks increased prices to consumers‚ to cover the increased
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Starbucks SWOT Analysis Starbucks was founded in the early 1970’s. Jerry Baldwin‚ Zev Siegel‚ and Gordon Bowker were three academics that came together to found the first Starbucks‚ named for the coffee loving first mate in Moby Dick. The company was founded in Pike Place‚ a Seattle marketplace over looking Puget Sound. Starbucks began as a shop selling only coffee beans. In the first twelve years‚ the founders had built Starbucks into a retail and wholesale business with its own roasting
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extraordinary success of Starbucks in the early 1990s? What was so compelling about the Starbucks value proposition? What brand image did Starbucks develop during this period? First of all‚ Starbucks has created the entire “coffee culture” in North America. From the idea to create a chain of coffeehouses that would become America’s “third place” other than home and work‚ Starbucks has become another place for relaxation and joy. This largely accounted for the big success of Starbucks in the early 1990s
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The Globalization of Starbucks Thirty years ago‚ Starbucks was a single store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market selling premium-roasted coffee. Today it is a global roaster and retailer of coffee with some 17‚000 stores‚ 40% of which are in 50 countries outside the United States. Starbucks set out on its current course in the 1980s when the company’s director of marketing‚ Howard Schultz‚ came back from a trip to Italy enchanted with the Italian coffeehouse experience. Schultz‚ who later became
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Schultz also address the Baldrige criteria for creating sustainable organization. He touches on how he is committed to developing and enhancing workforce learning. He talks about how he closed all of the Starbucks for three hours in order to have training time with the employees in making Starbucks drinks. This was during business hours where he could have been making revenue for the company. Instead of staying open and taking in more money he choose to put his employees learning first in order to
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8 Appendix 5 Executive Summary Starbucks is a well-known and currently the largest coffee shop chain in the world. The company has achieved its long-term development since the establishment. The company has developed an extremely strong company culture. This culture emanates from the very
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Starbucks Coffee GOING GLOBAL FAST Group One Members Presentation Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Company Profile Company Performance SWOT & Industry PEST Analysis Profile of USA‚ Japan‚ and China Operations Conclusion Q&A Company Profile Starbucks Corporation engages in the purchase‚ roasting‚ and sale of whole bean coffees worldwide. It offers brewed coffees‚ Italian-style espresso beverages‚ cold blended beverages‚ various food items‚ and a selection of premium teas‚ as well as beveragerelated
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History of Starbucks In 1971‚ Starbucks’ opened its first store at Pike Street Market in Seattle‚ by three partners Zev Siegel‚ Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker. Starbucks opened with the intent of being a gourmet coffee bean retailer and coffee equipment seller. The Starbucks name and logo came from two influences; a character named Starbuck in the classic book‚ Moby Dick‚ and a mining camp on the base of Mt. Rainier called Starbo. These two influences were combined to create Starbucks (Wikipedia
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Starbucks in the global taste Thirty years ago Starbucks was a single store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market selling premium roasted coffee. Today it is a global roaster and retailer of coffee with more than 7‚600 retail stores‚ some 2‚000 of which are to be found in thirty-four countries outside the United States. Starbucks set out on its current course in the 1980s when the company’s director of marketing‚ Howard Schultz‚ came back from a trip to Italy enchanted with the Italian coffeehouse experience
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