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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. Schultz owned the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from 2001 to 2006. Schultz began working at Starbucks in 1982. [3]
Howard Schultz was the CEO of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000. He was succeeded by Orin Smith, who ran the company for five years and positioned Starbucks as a large player in fair trade coffee (fair trade later being overturned during Kevin Johnson's leadership in 2022), [293] increasing sales to US$5 billion.
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (/ ʃ ʊ l t s / SHUULTS; November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) [2] was an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts which features his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
After five years of covering Starbucks (SBUX) for AOL finance sites, and at least a decade of interest in the company before that, my impression of CEO Howard Schultz had percolated into a glossy ...
Right: Justin Sullivan—Getty Images. 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.
Stephen Dunn/Getty Images. Johnson ended up building 105 locations, and his numbers were good enough that in 2010, after a 12-year partnership, Starbucks acquired the other half of the business ...
Succeeding Howard Schultz as CEO, Johnson previously was the company's president and chief operating officer from 2015 to 2017. On March 16, 2022, Johnson announced that he was stepping down as CEO, Schultz would take over as CEO in the interim. Johnson joined the board of directors of Goldman Sachs in late 2022.
Schultz, 68, served as CEO from 1986 to 2000 and took the company public in 1992 at a valuation of $271 million. He returned as CEO in 2008 to help the company weather the recession storms and ...