Starbuck’s SWOT Analysis Karen Mueller Upper Iowa University Chris Worley 11/12/2014 A SWOT Analysis of Starbuck’s Organizational Introduction Starbucks got its start in 1971 by three academic teaching professionals. English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegel, and writer Gordon Bowker, all three love coffee and decided to open Starbucks Coffee, Tea, and Spice in Pikes Place Market, Seattle Washington. The three partners shared a common love for fine coffees and exotic teas. They believed
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Executive Summary Starbucks Corporation offers gourmet coffee and coffee drinks in coffee bar-style establishments worldwide. Starbucks customers are coffee drinkers who wish to have a place where they can pick up a quick cup of coffee or treat. Starbucks offers a variety of products from regular coffee to breakfast sandwiches – all in their in-store environment. Due to its initial strategy and fast-paced growth, the Starbucks brand has developed through various product extensions and become a
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extra-ordinary success of Starbucks in the early 1990s? Many factors accounted for the extra-ordinary success of Starbucks in the early 1990’s. Starbucks owns nearly one-third of America’s coffee bars, which is more than its next five biggest competitors combined. Almost all of Starbucks’ locations in North America are company-owned stores located in high-traffic, high-visibility settings such as retail centers, office buildings, and university campuses. This made Starbucks a very convenient coffee
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PLANET STARBUCKS CASE REVIEW: The Starbucks company born from the idea of Alfred Peet, after that, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegel and the writer Gordon Bowker ran out this project, and they founded the company. Based in Seattle, Washington, since 1971 (year of foundation) today Starbucks is the world's biggest coffee company retail and has a presence in over 55 countries with approximately 18,000 establishments. Part of the merit of the company was thanks to Schultz, a businessman who had a number
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GM 591 8/21/2011 1 GM 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Course Project Introduction Starbucks is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 50 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, and over 700 in the United Kingdom. Donald, Jim (2007) Starbucks sells drip brewed coffee, espresso-based hot drinks, other hot and cold drinks, coffee beans,
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STARBUCKS: DELIVERING CUSTOMER SERVICE Brief Introduction • Founded in 1971 by three coffee fanatics- Gerald Baldwin, Gordon Bowker & Ziev Siegl • Schultz joined the marketing team in 1982 • Later, the founders sold the entire business to Schultz • By 2002, it served 20 million unique customers in 5000 stores across the globe • Sales had a CAGR of 40%, while Net Earnings had a CAGR of 50% Key people in the CASE: VP of Administration in North America: Christine Day CEO: Orin Smith (A Harvard MBA
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STARBUCKS: JUST WHO IS THE STARBUCKS CUSTOMER? By Annie C. Rodriguez For MKT-301 Principles of Marketing Mr. M. Loizides Howard Schultz traveled to Italy in the early 1980’s and was inspired to transform Starbucks, what then was just a handful of Seattle coffee shops, to a European-style coffee houses. His vision was to provide customers with the “third place” to go to. A place where they could relax that was away from home and work. A place where you can get away from it all and
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strong presence on campus. Because many people quickly become loyal customers after one positive experience, these students are likely to remain loyal to the companies on campus. This can potentially be a problem for Dunkin’ Donuts, but with the simple marketing campaign we have designed this problem could be resolved. As stated previously, not only did we analyze the target market, we also
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ANALYSIS OF STARBUCKS CASE Laurent Werro, Nikola Volchkov, Yuki Toyoshima, Jérôme Jayet Starbucks is a company that was founded in 1971 in Seattle by Gerald Baldwin, Gordon Bowker and Ziev Siegl. It is a specialized coffee roaster and distributor. The Company now operates in four areas: Americas which includes the US, Canada, and Latin America; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); China/Asia Pacific (CAP). (1) GROWTH AND SUCCESS FACTORS Starbucks pays attention to product quality and shop
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Case- Starbucks : Going global Fast 1. Identify the controllable and uncontrollable elements that Starbucks has encountered in entering global markets. There are controllable and uncontrollable elements that Starbucks has encountered global markets , where controllable elements refers to the ability of strabucks to overcome the problem and solve it , whereas uncontrollable elements refers to current situation in the market and how they can adapt to it. The case discusses multiple international
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