Howard Schultz or executive messages

Starbucks Via Ready Brew launches in Japan on April 14, 2010 and letter from Howard Schultz

April 13, 2010

The high quality coffee in an instant, Starbucks Via Ready Brew, launches in Japan Wednesday, April 14, 2010.  Japanese customers finally get to try and experience this amazingly easy and versatile instant coffee.  My favorite use for it is still to mix it with a bubbly water in the summer for an amazing iced drink.  [...]

17 comments Read more –>

Howard Schultz promises partners a better Starbucks experience in the future

March 6, 2010

This month, tens of thousands of Starbucks partners (Starbucks employees are called ‘partners’) will take a survey about the current quality of the partner experience. The feedback will be used to shape the future (I assume). At the end of the survey, Howard Schultz speaks, promising a brighter future for Starbucks partners. He sounds absolutely [...]

22 comments Read more –>

Starbucks Espresso Excellence – exactly 2 years later [Open Thread]

February 26, 2010

On February 26, 2008, Starbucks closed all company-operated Starbucks for a massive “hard reset” of baristas by retraining them on the perfect espresso beverage.  For about three and a half hours, all Starbucks closed, perhaps causing the largest corporate-induced caffeine withdrawals in America’s history.   Soon, brewed coffee will go through the same zenith level [...]

26 comments Read more –>

The 1992 Starbucks Corporation Annual Report: The first report online with letter to Shareholders from Howard

February 14, 2010

On June 26, 1992, Starbucks corporation was born.  Here is your chance to browse through every page of the first annual shareholder report, in its entirety. The very first annual meeting of shareholders was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Seattle, on Friday February 19, 1993, at 10:00 a.m.  Every year, Starbucks has [...]

15 comments Read more –>

Goodbye Dorothy Kim, Starbucks EVP Global Strategy

January 18, 2010

Dorothy Kim, a Starbucks partner since 1995, leaves Starbucks. And here, so I hear, is Starbucks’ goodbye letter to her: Dear Partners, I would like to let you know that Dorothy Kim is resigning from the company, effective February 5. Dorothy is a 14-year Starbucks partner who most recently led the company’s Global Strategy and [...]

6 comments Read more –>