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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.
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.
Co-founded Starbucks coffee chain Gerald Baldwin is an American businessman. He and two other entrepreneurs, Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl , founded Starbucks in Seattle, in 1971.
Founded in 1971 in Seattle as a small coffee bean shop, Starbucks had humble beginnings before expanding into a global coffeehouse chain under Howard Schultz's leadership in the 1980s.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.