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- They did so again in 2008, and in 2009, when Starbucks announced that after a fifteen-year uninterrupted run of nonstop growth, it would close hundreds of U.S. stores and lay off thousands of employees.
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Mar 22, 2009 · Starbucks is planning to open 140 new stores in the United States (while closing an additional 200). The trouble is, Schultz isn't about closing stores; he's all about opening them.
Apr 18, 2010 · In 2009 Starbucks served more than 26 million beverages in reusable cups in its company-owned stores in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. This simple shift in behavior kept nearly 1.2 million pounds of paper from ending up in landfills.
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It's hard to remember a time when Starbucks wasn't on every big-city corner and in every suburban shopping center in America. But it was tough to find a good cup of coffee when Howard Schultz first walked into a Starbucks at Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1981. Starbucks didn't serve brewed coffee at the time — it just sold the beans — but Schultz,...
But the company hit a rough patch in the mid-2000s without Schultz at the helm. In 2007, the company's stock cratered 42%. After growing rapidly — the company had 12,400 stores by the end of 2006 — Starbucks' traffic had slowed down. McDonald's (MCD) and Dunkin' Donuts (DNKN) had taken away customers while Starbucks lost some of its coffee-shop app...
Schultz is one of the most outspoken corporate leaders in the country, and Starbucks' policies and workers' benefits embody his social outlook. In his exit letter to employees, Schultz said he sought to balance "profitability and social conscience." Since 1988, Starbucks has offered health care to all full-time and part-time employees. The company ...
Sep 16, 2009 · Those trade-offs, and how they affect business, help explain why Starbucks (SBUX, Fortune 500) hit a wall in 2007 -- and why CEO Howard Schultz is still struggling to get his company's mojo back...
Jul 1, 2008 · Chain to close 600 stores starting at the end of this year and into 2009. July 1, 2008 -- With the coffee sitting around getting cold at hundreds of Starbucks across the country, the nation's ...
They did so again in 2008, and in 2009, when Starbucks announced that after a fifteen-year uninterrupted run of nonstop growth, it would close hundreds of U.S. stores and lay off thousands of employees.
Jan 11, 2024 · In 2009, Starbucks launched VIA Instant, a 100% natural roasted Arabica coffee in instant form. In 2011, Starbucks opened its first Community Stores in neighborhoods in Crenshaw, Los Angeles, and Harlem, New York.
