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      • After a year of coaxing, Schultz convinces founder Jerry Baldwin to hire him. Schultz joins Starbucks as director of retail of operations and marketing.
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  2. Jun 25, 2018 · Nearly 40 years ago, Howard Schultz first walked into the Pike Place store. "I stepped across the threshold and was swept into a world of coffee and community,” he told Starbucks partners last month when he announced his plans to leave the company.

  3. Dec 13, 2017 · In 1987, Schultz acquired the Starbucks' brand and 17 locations from its founders, who decided to focus their energy on Peet's.

  4. Mar 27, 2011 · In his farewell letter to more than 2 million past and present Starbucks partners, founder and executive chairman Howard Schultz expressed his gratitude for the creativity, hard work and love all of them pour into the company.

  5. Oct 22, 2015 · Thirty years ago, Howard Schultz got into the coffee business with one goal in mind: to enhance the personal relationship between people and their coffee. He's now responsible for...

  6. Starting from six tiny stores when Howard took over in 1987, this quirky coffee company named after a character from Moby Dick has scaled to nearly 40,000 locations worldwide. Today, in a first for Acquired, the protagonist himself joins us as a third cohost to tell the whole story of Starbucks.

  7. Jun 7, 2024 · In 1987, Schultz seized the opportunity to purchase Starbucks for $3.8 million. He merged it with his own company, Il Giornale, and began to rapidly expand the Starbucks brand. Under his leadership, Starbucks then embarked on an aggressive expansion, growing from 11 stores in 1987 to over 30,000 globally today.

  8. Howard retired from the company in 2018 but rejoined Starbucks as interim chief executive officer and a member of the company’s Board of Directors on April 4, 2022. In 2023, Howard took on the role of chairman emeritus and stepped down from the Board of Directors.

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