By LAUREN SHEPHERD
NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks Corp. is facing another complaint from the National Labor Relations Board alleging that the gourmet coffee chain engaged in unfair labor practices by firing a barista in Michigan.
The complaint, filed last month by the Detroit office of the NLRB, stems from an investigation into a charge made by employee Cole Dorsey earlier this year.
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NEW YORK, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) shares could rise 20 percent to 30 percent within a year as the coffee chain overhauls its menu and slashes costs, Barron’s said in its Monday edition.
Chief Executive Howard Schultz is trying to re-energize the chain after a decade-and-a-half of rapid expansion led to its many stores stealing sales from
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Agency Kept Bumping Up Against a Marketer That Wasn’t Receptive to Its Ideas, Executives Say
By Emily Bryson York and Jeremy Mullman
Published: September 29, 2008
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Dan Wieden and Howard Schultz have mended a few broken bridges between their organizations. But last week, reacting to what it saw as Starbucks’ micromanagement, waffling and shift to a jump-ball approach for
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by Maurizio Corda
On 3rd August, American giant Starbucks closed 61 of its 85 shops in Australia. After over a month and hundreds of jobs lost, I and many other coffee lovers still think about what went wrong and why did Starbucks fail to break the Australian market.
Being one of the biggest coffee retailer chains in the world, I did not really expect Starbucks to report profits falling down
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This coming Monday, September 29, homeschool parents will be able to pick up a complimentary tall size (12 fl. oz.) cup of Pike Place Roast from Starbucks.
This promotion is part of Starbucks “Great Start for Great Teachers” promotion, and is now open to all teachers.
HSLDA intervened when we were alerted that homeschool parents were not included in the promotion.
We are pleased that Starbucks
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By LORETTA CHAO
Wall Street Journal
BEIJING — Starbucks Corp.’s China operation has decided to stop using milk from supplier Mengniu Dairy Co., one of China’s largest dairy companies, until further notice in the wake of widening poisoned milk scandal, Starbucks said in a statement early Friday.
The decision comes as authorities discovered in recent days that the industrial chemical melamine
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by Scott Reeves
Struggling monolith to serve up news alongside caffeine fix.
Starbucks (SBUX), reeling from the need to close 600 of its stores, plans to serve up news alongside shots of double espresso. Perhaps the rag, entitled The Good Sheet, will spark discussion and maybe even gooey communitarian feeling among its customers.
This is yuckier than last week’s coffee grinds.
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By ANDREA JAMES
P-I REPORTER
Starbucks Corp. and Kraft Foods said Thursday that they would sell packaged coffee in Swiss retail stores for the first time by the end of this month.
The coffee will be sold at Switzerland’s Coop, which bills itself as the second-largest retailer in the country and sells groceries as well as other consumer goods and services.
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Lets take a step back in time:
At the beginning when the coffee giant first started out in Seattle in 1971, Starbucks coffee was just three friends with a passion for fresh gourmet coffee, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, they opened a small shop and began selling fresh-roasted, gourmet coffee beans and brewing and roasting accessories.
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