Hasan Mohammad Starbucks Ltd. Principles of Marketing Assignment 1 09 November 2004 I. Company History Three Seattle entrepreneurs started the Starbucks Corporation in 1971the name comes from Herman Melville ’s Moby Dick. Their prime product was the selling of whole bean coffee in one Seattle store. By 1982‚ this business had grown tremendously into five stores selling the coffee beans‚ a roasting facility‚ and a wholesale business for local restaurants. Howard Schultz‚ a marketer
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continuing to expand after Howard Schultz joined the business by trading in the bulk coffee sales into retail coffee sales. Nowadays‚ there are more than 2‚100 Starbucks locations in US and also around the world. For example‚ the first Malaysia Starbucks store was opened in KL plaza in 1998 throughout a joint venture with BERJAYA GROUP. Thus‚ Starbucks not only the country’s largest coffee importer and roaster for specialty beans but also larger specialty coffee bean retailer in US. SuppliersSuppliers
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History of Starbucks Starbucks started in 1971 when three academics opened a store called Starbucks Coffee‚ Tea and Spice in Pike Place Market in Seattle. The three academics‚ writer Gordon Bowker‚ English teacher Jerry Baldwin‚ and History teacher Zev Siegel‚ shared a passion of exotic teas and fine coffees and believed that in Seattle‚ they would be able to build a clientele. Each academic invested $1‚350 and borrowed $5‚000 from a bank to open the original Starbucks. Baldwin‚ Siegel and Bowker
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Starbucks Corporation Case Analysis Starbucks is one of the leading companies in the coffee industry‚ with more than 1‚000 retail locations around the world. Starbucks is currently reviewing its strategy for the future success of the company. Starbucks stands out from its competitors because of the memorable experience that it offers to its consumers. However‚ Howard Shultz‚ the Chairman and CEO of Starbucks Corporation‚ is questioning whether it is growing in the best way possible and could
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1) Starbucks used mostly a differentiation strategy‚ however it had also used a cost leadership strategy. Its differentiation strategy was exemplified by their stores providing an experience‚ offering interesting coffee-related drinks in a theatrical kind of atmosphere‚ their unique Coffee blending and roasting process which enabled them to create an extensive product variety‚ their employees received great deal of training to become very knowledgeable about coffee in order to provide an exceptional
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What Makes a Marketing Professional Successful? Marketing is not only making customers interested in buying a product and spreading your brand throughout the world‚ but also about building long lasting relationship based on trust‚ because the clients feel interested to buy your products trusting on your words and you must believe in honesty to be the best policy. Some people may think this as an impossible proposition because the immediate fruit of honesty in all occasions of business is not
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Starbucks Negative Points Starbucks is Hypocritical about community service. Although they supposedly pride themselves on being involved with projects that help improve the community‚ recycling and "making a difference in the world ‚ In actual this is not the case . The Plastic cups which they use are not recyclable‚ and even if they were‚ many Starbucks stores do not have recycling bins. Starbucks bought 2.5 billion cups for stores in North America in 2007. The 10% recycled paper cups used
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To help Starbucks on its way to successfully reach the supply chain goals they redefined and changed their distribution and warehousing strategy too. In March 2011 Starbucks signed the agreement with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters to distribute Starbucks coffee and teas for Keurig single-serving systems (2) Green Mountain Coffee Roasters owns the biggest distribution network for the single-serving systems in North America and Starbucks was able to increase their stock prices significantly after
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Starbucks Departments &functionality Marketing Department • It is a team of over 200 developing the strategy for all customer touch points in a Starbucks store and in the digital space. This includes campaigns for our products (like a favorite‚ the Pumpkin Spice Latte) or digital marketing campaigns like social media‚ promotions‚ as well as programs like Starbucks Card‚ CRM‚ ecommerce and mobile (Digital Ventures). • Whether it’s on a mobile device or in one of our stores‚ they strive
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Starbucks Transnational corporations have had a tremendous impact on the interconnectivity that between countries‚ corporations‚ and people on a global landscape. Fueled by capitalistic ideals of increasing profits numerous corporations have expanded there operations into the global marketplace‚ some with much more success than others. One such transnational corporation that has embodied this pursuit of expansion in domestic and foreign markets for profit is the Starbucks Coffee Company. This
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