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Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker at Seattle's Pike Place Market initially as a coffee bean wholesaler.
Jerry Baldwin was born to Rowland Baldwin (1914-1989), a door-to-door milkman, and Patricia Brodeur Baldwin (b. 1923), who worked in data processing for the federal government and IBM, found his life unsettled as a teenager when his parents divorced and his mother remarried.
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 founder came to me and said, ‘You would be the right steward to acquire the rights of Starbucks,’ which had six stores at the time for $3.8 million. That was the good news. The bad news ...
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 ...
Former Starbucks CEO and founder Howard Schultz says the company’s leaders should spend more time in stores and focus on coffee drinks as they work to turn around flagging sales. In a LinkedIn ...
Former Starbucks CEO and founder Howard Schultz says the company’s leaders should spend more time in stores and focus on coffee drinks as they work to turn around flagging sales. In a LinkedIn post published over the weekend, Schultz said many people had reached out to him after Starbucks reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales and ...
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.