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The company's headquarters is the Starbucks Center in Seattle, Washington, United States, where 3,501 people worked as of January 2015. [159] The main building in the Starbucks complex in SODO was previously a Sears mail order distribution center until 1987. [160]
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.
Starbucks began moving its administrative offices to the old Sears building in 1993. [7] On June 20, 1997, the coffeehouse chain moved its headquarters to the SoDo Center, became the building's primary tenant, and secured the naming rights. [8] [9] [10] Accordingly, the building's name was duly changed from the SoDo Center to the Starbucks ...
Starbucks ultimately encountered some financial trouble and the founder approached Schultz to buy the company. “The founder came to me and said, ‘You would be the right steward to acquire the ...
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 13, 2022: CEO of Starbucks Howard Schultz back stage with soon to be Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan at Starbucks Headquarters during Investor Day in Seattle ...
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz told me he and his wife Sheri created the index “because we believe CEOs and corporate directors in every industry have tremendous power to create opportunity ...
However, he refused to move the company's headquarters from Starbucks Center in Seattle to a location closer to his residence in Orange County, California. [33] This was disappointing for Starbucks investors who had hoped that a move would revitalize the company by enabling it to draw upon the much larger Southern California talent market for ...
In 2008, Apple founder Steve Jobs "screamed" in the face of Starbucks then-CEO Howard Schultz, encouraging the coffee chain boss to fire his leadership team. Schultz is a familiar face at the helm ...