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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]
CEO of Starbucks Brian R. Niccol is an American businessman and the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks , a role which he started on September 9, 2024, replacing Laxman Narasimhan . He previously was chairman and CEO of Chipotle until August 31, 2024.
James Donald is an American businessman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Starbucks from 2005 to 2008. He was preceded by Orin C. Smith, who led the company since 2000, and was succeeded by the coffeehouse's second president, Howard Schultz. Donald also held various executive positions with Albertsons.
The store offered ice cream in addition to coffee, had little seating, and played opera music in the background. [23] Two years later, the original Starbucks management team decided to focus on Peet's Coffee & Tea and sold its Starbucks retail unit to Schultz and Il Giornale for US$3.8 million. [23]
After coming off its best year in history, Starbucks posted a record $4.2 billion in sales for its fiscal first quarter of 2014. The coffee chain's earnings came in higher than management's ...
Schultz began exploring ways for the company to weigh in on race in late 2014, according to Carr, who interviewed several Starbucks executives, including Schultz, for the story.
Starbucks has been one of the hottest stocks over the last several years and this is a direct result of its financial performance. 2013 was the best year in the company's history and it is on ...
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.