Charlie Rose with a clip from Jim Lehrer's interview with President Bush; Howard Schultz; Ed Viesturs (January 16, 2007)
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
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
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz said McDonald's Corp's McCafe launch earlier this year made the cafe chain better.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ:SBUX) today announced the appointment of Kalen Holmes as executive vice president, Partner Resources (Human Resources), reporting to Chairman, President and CEO Howard Schultz. “We are excited to have Kalen join the Starbucks leadership team as the global leader of our Partner Resources organization,” said Schultz. “She brings...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The time is right for Silicon Valley -- style progressivism to woo independents into a political force under the Libertarian Party banner. Here's how. If the two-party system is ever going to be seriously challenged, this is the moment. The GOP, the stall-tactic party, is reeling. The Democratic administration is struggling to turn around the economy. And across the country, creative, engaged folks...
SeekingAlpha Retail Stocks (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
The share price of Starbucks Corporation ( SBUX ) took a particularly large hit during 2007 and 2008 as investors believed that the company had overextended itself in a premium coffee market that appeared to be under threat. CEO Howard Schultz was put back at the helm of the company in January 2008 and within less than six months had announced the closure of 600 of its US stores in attempt to decrease...
iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Last week, Starbucks Corporation (Nasdaq: SBUX) debuted "Via Ready Brew" – its new instant coffee. It's a product that CEO Howard Schultz calls "perhaps the biggest opportunity" in the company's history. Hmm… perhaps Mr. Schultz is being slightly over-the-top. [More...]
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
As CEO Howard Schultz eyes a huge overseas market for instant coffee, will the new Via product damage the Starbucks brand? Enter the late Don Valencia.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Chief Executive Howard Schultz called Starbucks Corp's Via Ready Brew "perhaps the biggest opportunity" in company history as he prepared for the instant coffee product's North American roll-out on Tuesday.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Tuesday morning Starbucks embarks on its biggest advertising investment since the coffee giant opened in 1971 with the nationwide launch of VIA instant brew, said CEO Howard Schultz.
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Most Seattleites would probably list Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Howard Schultz, and Jeff Bezos when asked to name local entrepreneurs who built not just successful companies but entirely new industries. But they’d be forgetting Steve Gillis. Gillis would have to be considered something like the Fifth Beatle in a group like that—you can walk into his [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
It looks like CEO Howard Schultz was one of the Starbucks employees who exchanged underwater stock options for some that were above-water, after shareholders approved that possibility earlier in the year.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
The downturn has forced Howard Schultz to do something drastic. He has had to acknowledge that Starbucks needed to change almost everything about how it operates.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp will make voluntary matching contributions to 401(k) retirement plans for its 2009 plan year, Chief Executive Howard Schultz said in a memo to employees on Monday.
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