A New Starbucks SBU Product Line INDUSTRY OVERVIEW The coffee industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world with an annual growth rate of 7% (Griffin, 1999). As of 2011 Americans consumed approximately 400 million cups of coffee per day, which is equal to about 146 billion cup of coffee per year. When put into the perspective of caffeine coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the United States. While there are several different species of different coffee plants
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul. Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon. New York: Rodale, Inc., 2011. 331 pages. Reviewed by Onward is a book written by Starbucks ceo Howard Schultz (the company uses lower case for all job titles) about how the company recalibrated itself after getting too big, too fast. The reason I chose to read and review this book is because I am a coffee addict. Ironically, I am not a fan of Starbucks. I’ve always felt that their coffee is a
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Branches in the world and Vietnam: Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world ahead, with 21,160 stores in 63 countries and territories, including 12,067 in the United States, 1,570 in China, 1,451 in Canada, 1,070 inJapan and 793 in the United Kingdom. From Starbucks' founding in 1971 as a Seattle coffee bean roaster and retailer, the company has expanded rapidly. Since 1987, Starbucks has opened on average two new stores every day. Starbucks had been profitable as a local company
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Final Project: Company Analysis Company: Starbucks Corporation Critical Thinking Question: Can Starbucks meet its projected ultimate growth? Bruce Harris BMGT 327-01 Organizational Theory and Behavior Dr. Susan Eisner Winter 2005 Semester Tuesday January 25, 2005 To: Professor S. Eisner From: Bruce Harris Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 Re: Final Project (Option 2) – Company Analysis – Starbucks Corp. Introduction: Starbucks Corp. has had a substantial impact on the way Americans socialize
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CASE STUDIES Starbucks case study Utilizing brand assets and capturing consumer trends in the Japanese RTD coffee market Reference Code: CSCM0242 Publication Date: March 2009 DATAMONITOR VIEW CATALYST Starbucks has established itself not only as a coffee shop chain, but also as a provider of ready-to-drink coffee drinks. Its partnership with Suntory in Japan has seen the success of the chilled cup coffee drink Discoveries, and the experience could provide insights on how the company can
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presented it to Starbucks' board of directors. Under that plan, the company would first reorganize its supply chain organization, simplifying its structure and more clearly defining functional roles. Next, Starbucks would focus on reducing the cost to serve its stores while improving its day-to-day supply chain execution. Once these supply chain fundamentals were firmly under control, the company could then lay the foundation for improved supply chain capability for the future. Starbucks by the numbers
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Executive Summary This paper will focus on the diversity audit that has been done for Starbucks Coffee Company. The audit will have a description of the company’s background along with viewing the company’s different types of practices that they use that involves diversity. We will be viewing the company’s statements and conducting research on previews interviews and even viewing news articles about the company. We will find out what the organizations diversity practices will consist of according
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Functional View of Work Processes Businesses do not think in terms of product or service lines as much as business functions. For example, a company that makes shoes will have manufacturing, packing, shipping, human resources, marketing, etc. as basic functions that must occur across all types of shoes they manufacture. To have quality products or services, each of these functions must work with the other functions. If there’s a problem with how one function is accomplished, this will impact
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Final: A Starbucks Case Study Brian Davis Business Ethics BUSM 4263 Dr. Johnson April 5, 2012 Incorporating Coffee and Business the Starbucks Way The Early Years Starting a Small Group – During a business trip Howard Schultz visited Seattle, WA, investigating why a local coffee shop was outselling Macy’s in specific drip coffee makers. His visit brought him to Starbucks where he first met Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker. Inspired, Howard
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Summary This report presents a case study of Starbucks, the world-leading coffee chain. The information presented indicates how Starbucks performances while they were lunching the new product Via for entering the instant coffee. Also, the report shows how the Starbucks’s CEO, Mr. Schultz, made decisions to help Starbucks reverse the decline. At last, the report showed how the new product Via help Starbucks gain a competitive advantage in the instant coffee market and recover from their economy recession
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