CEO Howard Schultz

CEO Howard Schultz

Starbucks Corp announced in January 2008 that founder Howard Schultz will return as the chief executive of Starbucks.

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HOWARD SCHULTZ VERSUS HOWARD SCHULTZ You can get a sense of what's important to someone by the stories he tells. At Starbucks, a company diminished in ways both tangible and ineffable, Howard Schultz is telling a story about milk. Starbucks uses a lot of the stuff. As part of Schultz's efforts to improve the quality of the millions of lattes and cappuccinos Starbucks serves, he forbade what had become the common practice of resteaming milk. That meant the baristas were pouring millions of dollars of leftover milk down the drain. As store managers for the first time began thinking about how to operate more ... Read Full Story
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With consumers still holding back on small luxuries — even as competition increases among specialty coffee sellers, which now include McDonald's Corp. — Starbucks Corp. launched a multimillion dollar advertising campaign in its third quarter to convince more consumers to spend. CEO Howard Schultz spoke during a conference call with investors about how successful Starbucks was in this latest skirmish in the coffee wars. QUESTION: How effective have you been at driving traffic into retail stores? RESPONSE: It's very hard to specifically quantify the effectiveness of advertising in the midst of the quarter that we just finished, because it's very fresh. However, when you ... Read Full Story
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On the business TV channel CNBC, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said that "the UK is in a spiral" and consumer confidence was 'very, very poor'. Times are tough all around, but few Brits want to receive a prognosis from coffee-king Schultz, least of all UK business secretary Peter Mandelson. The comments from Schultz infuriated Mandelson who hit back with a few choice words: "Who the fuck is he? How the hell are they (Starbucks) doing?" Mandelson was in New York recently. His remarks were made in front of journalists outside the official residence of the British consul-general. Mandelson said Schultz was spreading unnecessary misery ... Read Full Story
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Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, seeks to dispel excess myth in a rectent MarketWatch article . But in light of the whole AIG $1 million bonuses that were just paid out to the top executives, you may wonder if Schultz may want it both ways. For years, Starbucks touted itself as a premium cup of coffee and was unabashed in the fact that it was more expensive then other coffees, but it was worth the extra money. The image of the white coffee cup with the green logo symbolized a higher end, premium product. It was much like the Tiffany’s of coffee. But a product ... Read Full Story
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Starbucks Corp. F4Q09 (Qtr. End 09/27/09) Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking AlphaFollowing up on Starbucks and their use of Lean methods in their stores, CEO Howard Schultz had this to say about Lean in their investor conference call:Behind the scenes, we have continued to build on our work to drive efficiency through lean processes, optimal scheduling and technology upgrades. These innovations, though not always visible, continue to help...  
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| Starbucks Corp., the world’s largest coffee-shop operator, approved a pay raise for Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz to $1.3 million after three quarters of profit growth.  
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I can't find a link to Schultz's interview this afternoon with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, but did find the clip below of him speaking in September to the APEC SME Summit for small and medium-sized business executives in China. He talks about the difficulty of raising $3.8 million for Starbucks in the 1980s.  
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Two quarters? He's talking about improved same-store sales, which have been down for seven consecutive quarters but are improved -- to negative 1 percent in the fourth quarter reported last week -- from lows in the negative 7 to 9 percent range.  
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (Dow Jones Commodities News) -- Starbucks Corp.'s (SBUX) Via instant coffee has outperformed expectations in the seven weeks since it was introduced in the U.S., the coffee shop chain's chief executive, Howard Schultz, said Thursday....  
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Earlier today, I caught up with Starbucks (SBUX) Chairman & CEO Howard Schultz. Starbucks' stock is up over 120% year to date. Schultz just exercised options worth almost $20 million, taking a $15 million dollar paper profit, but he had an option to sell those shares once the stock options were exercised. He decided to [...]  
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Maveron LLC, a Seattle venture capital firm co-founded by Starbucks Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz, will announce today that it is opening a San Francisco office, bucking the contraction trend sweeping the sector. The consumer-focused fund, which has... San Francisco - Venture capital - Maveron - Howard Schultz - Chief executive officer  
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