CEO Howard Schultz

May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Howard Schultz, chief executive officer of Starbucks Corp., talks about the company's growth in China. Schultz also discusses Starbucks's U.S. performance, business strategy and relationship with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. He speaks with Adam Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg)Read Full Story

Job creation is not happening fast enough in the U.S. for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. Disappointed with political gridlock and finger pointing, the coffee-shop giant is stepping up its efforts to expand its jobs fund dedicated to fostering small businesses.  To help small businesses get the financing they need, Starbucks has been collecting money at its 7,000 U.S. locations and has made 278 small business loans so far. Schultz explained why he is doing this in a recent interview...Read Full Story

On Thursday, Starbucks announced that it was acquired by juice maker Evolution Fresh Inc. for $30 million as part of a larger effort to move beyond just offering coffee.  Its plan to reinvent the 1.6 billion premium juice brand by opening up a new chain of health and wellness stores this year that will carry products by Evolution.  Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz explains, “We are not just acquiring a juice company, we are using this acquisition to position ourselves, in a broad way, to build a...Read Full Story

As if gingerbread lattes weren't enough. Now Starbucks is leading the charge to help the 99% get loans (and rock some new accessories in the process). The coffee-shop-on-every-corner chain (a.k.a. my morning fix) just launched a new initiative to help raise funds for the Opportunity Finance Network, a national non-profit organization dedicated to giving loans to low-income households.According to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, the government is in gridlock and "not going to do squat" until...Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp chief executive Howard Schultz urged Americans on Friday to join a giant "tele-townhall" next week to discuss ways to break the partisan gridlock in Washington.In an open letter circulated via email, the head of the world's biggest coffee chain invited "concerned Americans" to take part in a national call-in conversation next Tuesday hosted by the nonpartisan group No Labels, dedicated to fostering cooperative and more effective government.The group...Read Full Story

On Huffington Post, Reverend Adam Hamilton claims LGBTQ activists “got it wrong” when activists petitioned and convinced Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz not to speak at Willow Creek Church, because the activists perceived the church as anti-LGBTQ. The article reads: This year a group called change.org started a petition drive to protest Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz’ plans to speak on leadership at the event. Willow Creek was described as having a “long history of anti-gay persecution” on the...Read Full Story

Howard Schultz urges Americans to tell lawmakers that they need to set aside domestic differences and get a republic on a right track. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Starbucks arch executive Howard Schultz pleaded with Americans Tuesday night to take to a Internet, a mail or a write to titillate lawmakers to quit their contention and find solutions to a nation’s ascent problems. “The republic is going in a wrong instruction since Washington is holding us there,” Schultz pronounced during a city hall...Read Full Story

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has had it with political dickering in Washington, D.C., and is calling for a boycott on campaign contributions to President Obama and congressional lawmakers until they put the country's financial house in order. Companies are afraid to hire. Consumers are afraid to spend. Besides stopping campaign contributions, Schultz — the Northwest's top-paid CEO last year — vowed to help get the economy moving by hiring. We are hiring more people now." The media attention...Read Full Story

To be successful in a bid to starve Washington of dollars, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will likely have to expand his campaign to boycott campaign contributions beyond fellow CEOs. On Aug. 12, Schultz made a Starbucks will pay $75000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed when a barista who has dwarfism was fired after asking for a stool. During Elsa Sallard's training in 2009, a manager decided that she would pose a “One of the most important challenges facing the Small...Read Full Story

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has gotten some-more than 100 other corporate arch execs to determine to hindrance all domestic contributions. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — You know who’s unequivocally insane during Washington? Corporate America. Led by Howard Schultz of Starbucks (SBUX, Fortune 500), some-more than 100 CEOs have sealed a oath to hindrance all domestic discuss contributions until lawmakers, as Schultz puts it, “stop a narrow-minded gridlock in Washington, D.C.” Last week, he mounted a...Read Full Story