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Tata Starbucks owned and operated Starbucks outlets in India as Starbucks Coffee "A Tata Alliance". [217] Starbucks opened its first store in India in Mumbai on October 19, 2012. [218] [219] [220] On February 1, 2013, Starbucks opened its first store in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, [221] [222] [223] and its first location in Hanoi in July 2014. [224]
He learned the coffee trade from Alfred Peet, whose store Peet's Coffee And Tea, was the inspiration for Starbucks. Starbucks purchased roasted coffee beans from Peet's during its first year of operation. Baldwin has recalled Peet as being a "very generous" mentor. [2]
Howard D. Schultz (born July 19, 1953) [2] is an American businessman and author who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023.
The doors to the first Starbucks store opened on March 30, 1971. It was founded by Gordon Bowker, Jerry Baldwin, and Zev Siegl. [1] While commonly referred to as the first Starbucks location, the current address is the second for the Pike Place store. The first restaurant was located at 2000 Western Avenue for five years.
In 1971, Bowker, Baldwin and Siegl opened the first Starbucks near Pike Place Market. [2] In 1984, Starbucks acquired Peet's Coffee & Tea. [4] In 1987, Bowker and Baldwin sold Starbucks to Howard Schultz and a group of investors. Bowker then left the coffee business, but was later on Peet's board of directors from 1994 to 2008. [2]
Following a decade as vice president and a director, Siegl left Starbucks, which had expanded to dominate the gourmet coffee trade in Seattle, with six Seattle-area stores and a wholesale business. Siegl is the founder of several other small businesses, including Quartermaine Coffee Roasters, [11] in Rockville, Maryland, near Washington, DC.
Kevin R. Johnson (born October 9, 1960) is an American businessman and software engineer who was the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Starbucks Coffee Company from 2017 to 2022. Succeeding Howard Schultz as CEO, Johnson previously was the company's president and chief operating officer from 2015 to 2017.
Starbucks () as we know it today would not exist if it weren’t for the help of Bill Gates Sr., the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, according to executive chairman Howard Schultz.. In ...