Social Responsibility & Starbucks BAMMC – BA Thesis May‚ 2012 Corporate Social Responsibility – A case study of Starbucks’ CSR communication through its corporate website Bachelor Thesis in Marketing and Management Communication Sanne Sanne Bruhn-Hansen CPR: XXXXXX-XXXX Supervisor: Tomasz A. Fediuk No. of characters: Thesis: 54‚329 Abstract: 3‚492 Page 1 of 42 Sanne Bruhn-Hansen Supervisor: Tomasz A. Fediuk Corporate Social Responsibility & Starbucks BAMMC – BA Thesis
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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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Review and Summary of Riordan’s Mission and Vision and Strategic Objectives "Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. The company is wholly owned by Riordan Industries‚ a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1 billion" (Apollo Group Inc.‚ 2004). The Mission and Vision Statement of Riordan Manufacturing is four tier‚ concentrating on the company Focus‚ Customer Relationships‚ Employees and a Future
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The presentation highschool of san jose Interesting Ideas for School Project Presentations Presentations for school projects must be prepared in a manner that their content is easily understood by the audience. School projects can have a wide variety of subjects like science‚ history‚ geography‚ etc. Many different ideas for the respective subjects can be used for presentation of school projects. The ones that are commonly used include activities like preparing models‚ creating charts‚ etc. in
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Starbucks Contents Introduction 3 The organization’s strategic position 3 External drivers affecting this organization 6 Value adding in Starbucks 9 Sustainability of Starbucks’s strategic position 13 Conclusion 14 References 15 Introduction Starbucks‚ the biggest coffee retailer in the world‚ grows from a small‚ regional business into the undisputable leader in the specialty coffee industry. It arrives in the UK in
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from classic novel about whaling industry. Howard Schultz is the man behind this occurrence‚ that claims 7‚ 521 company owned‚ 5‚647 licensed stores in 41 countries. SBUX or Starbucks as we all know. Acquisition of 65 Seattle coffee company in 1998 made it possible for Starbucks to enter UK market Mission statement of Starbucks “To inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person‚ one cup and one neighbourhood at a time.” To grow SBUX invested in human resources‚ technology – to give hi-fi and
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Starbucks was founded by Jerry Baldwin‚ Zev Ziegler and Gordon Bowker in 1971 in Seattle‚ U.S.A. They named their company after Starbuck from the Moby Dick novel who was a coffee lover. Starbucks sold primarily whole bean Arabica coffee. They got their supply from Alfred Peet of Peet’s Coffee and were under the agreement that once Starbucks ’got too big‚ they would have to roast their own’. Their main focus was to sell a high quality cup of coffee. In 1984 Harold Schultz joined the company as a director
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Starbucks Case Facts: * Founded in 1987 in Seattle‚ Wash by Howard Shultz * World premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffees * As of April 2010: 8‚812 company owned stores‚ and 7‚852 licensed stores in more than 50 countries and annual sales of about $10 bil Company Background * Start in 1971‚ 3 academics: Jerry Baldwin‚ Zev Siegal‚ and Gordon Bowker opened Starbucks in the touristy Pikes Place Market in Seattle each invested $1‚350 and borrowed $5K from the bank
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external‚ customers. Moreover‚ Starbucks uses the bean stock to improve their operations through many decades. In the year 1991‚ Starbucks was the first U.S. privately owned coffee company in the history to offer stock options called “bean stock”. The current CEO of Starbucks is Howard Schultz‚ he replaced Jim Donald to turn Starbucks around from struggling in the coffee world and he is now currently focusing on the Internet projects for the company‚ also managing Starbucks with the stock-option called
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presentation A Presentation Is... A Presentation Is... A presentation is a means of communicati on which can be adapt ed to various speaking situations‚ such as talk ing to a group‚ addres sing a meeting or brie fing a team. A Presentation Is... Presentation is the practice of showing and explaining the content of a topic to an audience or learner. Preparing for a presentation Preparation is the single most important part of making a successful presentation. This is the crucial founda
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