MKTG410-001 Case Study 2: Starbucks: Forbidden in the Forbidden City Submission Date: 3/2/2015 BB202121‚ CHAU HONG CHON‚ Eric BB201531‚ CHEN CHAOHUA‚ Cherish BB102089‚ LO CHENG MAN‚ Karina 1. Why is China‚ traditionally a non-coffee drinking culture‚ an important market for Starbucks? China contains large number of population. For Beijing’s Forbidden City‚ which is China’s top tourists attraction‚ as a destination of choice for both Chinese and foreign visitors‚ hosts millions of visitors
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Starbuck ’s Strategy and Internal Initiatives to Return to Profitable Growth Table of Contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Starbucks is the premier roaster‚ marketer and retailer of specialty coffee in the world‚ operating in more than 50 countries. Since its founding in 1987 as a modest nine-store operation in Seattle‚ Washington‚ Starbucks had become the world ’s premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffees‚ with 8‚812 company owned stores and 7‚852 licensed stores
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…………………………………………………………………………………………References Company Description Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) is a company specializing in the “coffeehouse experience”. Starbucks is named after the first mate in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The logo is also inspired by the sea – featuring a twin-tailed siren from Greek mythology. After being founded in 1971 as a single store in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market‚ in 1987‚ Howard Schultz (Starbucks chairman‚ president and chief executive officer) purchased Starbucks with the help of local investors
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remains the core product and focus of Starbucks‚ the introduction of various new products has expanded the Starbucks product portfolio. For example‚ the acquisition of Tazo Tea has allowed Starbucks to provide new offerings such as tea-only stores (Blessing). Also‚ as part of the marketing campaign‚ Starbucks is making a push for its store employees to provide customer with exceptional customer service. For example‚ part of the campaign is highlighting Starbucks willingness to remake a drink for a
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The chairman of coffee giant Starbucks has a vision about the future of business – and makes no beans about it. “The rules of engagement have changed‚” says Harold Schultz. “Business has let us down and we are living in very fractured times. We as consumers – as customers‚ but mostly as people – need an emotional connection.” The chief global strategist of Starbucks Coffee Co. spoke to business students and alumni last week at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.
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Starbucks is unique in the fact that every employee is called a “partner.” There are about 60‚000 partners worldwide‚ and each one is given health insurance and stock options. This creates an extremely high employee satisfaction rate‚ and very low turnover rate. The special training that employees go through is also an important part of Starbucks’ image. They go through both hard skill and soft skill training. The hard skills focus on learning how to mix drinks‚ run the cash register‚ etc.
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Starbucks’ Strategy and Internal Initiatives to Return to Profitable Growth Starbucks started as a simple retail coffee store at the Pikes Place store‚ where customers went to buy coffee of the best quality in the whole country and also they could find in this stores thing as coffeemakers and other coffee related products. The main idea of this company was set by three coffee lovers that were professors at the university‚ so they thought that would be great to share that love‚ that passion
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Market Analysis Starbucks provides the highest-quality coffee what it believes in the world. It has hundreds of product lines and the sales of beverage take the largest percent. Despite of Starbucks’ overwhelming presence and convenience‚ customers think there was just a little of image and product differentiation between Starbucks and the smaller coffee chains. However‚ Starbucks has an uncomplicated distribution strategy‚ and it tries to make customers get entrance to Starbucks products
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Chef Chapela 10/11/2012 Starbucks began in 1971 as any other café. It wasn’t until a trip to Milan‚ Italy in 1983 by Howard Shultz that Starbucks began making changes. In Italy people were coming to cafés to get premium coffee‚ but also were sitting and enjoying their coffee over conversation or relaxation. In America customers more frequently got their coffee in a rush and weren’t too concerned with quality. Shultz came back with the notion to make Starbucks a premium coffee house with personal
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BADM 482 – Business Policy and Strategy STARBUCKS Name: Chad Hodges 1. Which one of the 5 generic business strategies best matches Starbuck’s strategy? Why? I believe that of the generic strategies the best match to Starbuck’s strategy is that of the rivalry within the industry. This is the best match because there are a lot of different types of specialty coffee shops out their in the industry so the rivalry amongst all the competitors is very fierce. Of the other coffee shops it
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