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„We highlight and summarise the best articles from the mainstream press.Summaries from August - September 2001 The 'invasion' of American-style coffee bars caused quite a stir in the English broadsheets. Guardian, 4 August 2001 In August the Guardian ran a feature by Joanna Blythman on the scathing reaction by some to the proliferation of Starbucks, referring to a website "where you can have a global gripe about the coffee chain you love to hate and give it a good kicking in the company of disgruntled independent café patrons. The article questions why Starbucks perseveres in what seems to be an oversubscribed market when it could open shops in Asia for a fraction of the cost. It then points out that coffee is the second fastest growing UK market after mobile phones, having expanded 55% between 1997 and 2000 with the prediction of a further 22% growth per year till 2003 (the presumed saturation year).“http://www.germinalproductions.co.uk/cafe/ news01.html - Cached
CoffeeGeek - Starbucks Corporation completes acquisition of Seattle Coffee Company
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„Starbucks Corporation is the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee in the world, with more than 6,500 retail locations in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. The Company is committed to offering the highest quality coffee and the Starbucks Experience while conducting its business in ways that produce social, environmental and economic benefits for communities in which it does business. In addition to its retail operations, the Company produces and sells bottled Frappuccino® coffee drinks, Starbucks DoubleShot™ coffee drink, and a line of superpremium ice creams through its joint venture partnerships. The Company's other brands enhance the Starbucks Experience through best-of-class products: Tazo Tea Company offers a line of innovative premium teas, and Hear Music produces and distributes a line of exceptional compact discs.“http://www.coffeegeek.com/resources/pressreleases/ sccjuly142003 - Cached
Transfair USA | Press Releases
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„For more information about Hyatt hotels and resorts, visit Hyatt on the Internet at www.hyatt.com. Starbucks Coffee Company is the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee in the world, with more than 6,000 retail locations in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. The Company is committed to offering the highest quality coffee and the Starbucks Experience while conducting its business in ways that produce social, environmental and economic benefits for communities in which it does business. In addition to its retail operations, the Company produces and sells bottled Frappuccino™ coffee drinks, Starbucks DoubleShot™ coffee drink, and a line of superpremium ice creams through its joint venture partnerships.“http://www.transfairusa.org/content/about/ pr_030226.php - Cached
Transfair USA | Press Releases
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„Press Releases 9/25/00 Starbucks Coffee Company Brings Fair Trade Certified Coffee to Retail Stores Through TransFair USA Alliance SEATTLE / OAKLAND, Calif.; September 25, 2000 ÑStarbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) will begin offering Fair Trade certified coffee through its extensive network of more than 2,300 company-owned retail stores in the United States on October 4. Additionally, beginning October 23, Starbucks will offer Fair Trade coffee to more than 400 colleges and universities in the country currently serving Starbucks¨ coffee. "Starbucks launch of Fair Trade coffee is an historic event that will have a tremendous impact on disadvantaged coffee farmers and their families," says Paul Rice, Executive Director of TransFair USA.“http://www.transfairusa.org/content/about/ pr_000925.php - Cached
CoffeeGeek - Starbucks "Make Your Mark" Program Launches
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„Starbucks Coffee Company is the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee in the world, with more than 7,000 retail locations in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. The Company is committed to offering the highest quality coffee and the Starbucks Experience while conducting its business in ways that produce social, environmental and economic benefits for communities in which it does business. In addition to its retail operations, the Company produces and sells bottled Frappuccino® coffee drinks, Starbucks DoubleShot™ coffee drink, and a line of superpremium ice creams through its joint venture partnerships.“http://www.coffeegeek.com/resources/pressreleases/ starbuckssept32003 - Cached
„ Starbucks' size and influence make it a huge magnet for both positive and negative attention and commentary in the United States, but in Costa Rica, the company is now the single largest buyer of coffee altogether, purchasing serious quantities at excellent prices and supporting quality on a vast scale. Fulmer and Williams both made it clear that those who call themselves specialty roasters have an obligation to pay fair prices if they and their customers want to drink great coffee. They sent a clear message that those (be they large institutional or short-sighted micro-roasters) who delight in today's low C market are voting for misery and social unrest at origin and shrinking coffee consumption at home.“http://www.freshcup.com/feb02_costarica.htm - Cached
Amazon.com: Books: Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
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„The success of Starbucks Coffee Company is one of the most remarkable business stories in decades, growing from a single retail store on Seattle's waterfront to a company with more than one thousand stores nationwide and a new one opening every business day. Starbucks has effected a fundamental change in American life, turning coffee into a national obsession and establishing the coffee bar as a new fixture of Main Street - a home away from home for millions of Americans. In Pour Your Heart Into It, Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, shares the passion, values, and inspiration that drive the success of this fascinating company.“http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/ 0786883561?v=glance - Cached
„ This level of brand discipline is typical of larger chains, but it’s worth noting that Starbucks, the world’s largest coffeehouse chain, uses a variety of color schemes, fixture designs and seating options while maintaining strict branding standards related to the company’s product, menu, display, and beverage preparation. Starbucks spokesperson, Lara Wyss, says, “We want the stores to have a similar look and feel, but we work very hard to incorporate design elements that will make each location unique and locally relevant. It is important to find a balance between overall consistency and subtle differences to make it relevant to a particular community.”“http://www.freshcup.com/apr03_chain.htm - Cached
BBC News | The Company File | Starbucks storms into UK
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„The UK speciality coffee market has been growing rapidly, with chains like Coffee Republic and Costas springing up throughout metropolitan areas. Taking over Seattle Scott Svenson on why the recession won't hurt businessThe company has begun its expansion by acquiring the Seattle Coffee Company, a UK-based chain of 64 shops run by two Americans, Scott and Ally Svenson. They launched the company after moving from Seattle to London, and now stand to gain $20m (£12.5m) from the sale. Their shops will be rebranded by Starbucks over the next year, and the Svensons will continue to have management responsibility for UK operations.“http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_company_file/.../ 171187.stm - Cached
India coffee - Indian Coffee, monthly magazine - The Social Dimension-what price the good bean
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„The "Conservation Principles for Coffee Production" was issued in May 2001 by the US-based Conservation International, Consumer's Choice Council, Rainforest Alliance, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and Summit Foundation. Starbucks Coffee Company issued its Coffee Sourcing Guidelines in November 2001. The latest posting, in June 2003, is the "Common Basic Principles and Ethics for the Purchase of Coffee from Origin" by the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE), which draws on features from the European Coffee Federation's Ethical Sourcing Principles Document.“http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/2003/august/ social_dimension.html - Cached
„The project is being funded by the Workforce Development Council of Seattle King County, along with the assistance of the Starbucks Coffee Company, which is donating an extensive list of equipment for the program and has agreed to interview graduates for possible hiring. The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) will also donate resource books, videos and posters from its capacious library. By June of 2004, the Youth Barista Training Program plans to graduate 75 students and speed them down the caffeinated road to gainful employment in the world of specialty coffee.“http://www.freshcup.com/jan04_unfiltered.htm - Cached
India Coffee- Indian Coffee, monthly magazine-Cover Story
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„The specialty coffee movement has gained much of its momentum through the efforts of Starbucks Coffee Company, which from it's home-base in Seattle had expanded to some 5,000 stores around the world by early 2002, and Peet's Coffee & Tea, based in Berkeley, California. Together these two chains, both from the West Coast of the USA, have become the model for the contemporary coffee shop and have inspired entrepreneurs around the globe. Strongly influenced by the Italian espresso bar, the café latte culture has become a rage in Silicon Valley.“http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/8/ coverstory.html - Cached
PR Fair Trade Pioneers 9/00
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„21, 2000) — In an unusual turn of events, a small, Boston area company, Equal Exchange, congratulates a number of much larger companies for having announced that they are entering the field of fairly traded coffees – the niche market that Equal Exchange has had mostly to themselves since they created the category in 1991. In keeping with the company’s unconventional approach to business, Equal Exchange is glad to have direct competition for the first time, even specialty coffee powerhouses like Starbucks and Green Mountain.“http://www.equalexchange.com/news_info/ pr9.00.html - Cached
Virtual Coffee: Gourmet Coffee Goes its Own Way in England
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„Some have nowsold out for big money to big corporations, throwing a question mark on such marketingslogans as "Passionate About Coffee." Perhaps "passionate about profit" would be moreaccurate. The biggest UK chain, the three-year-old Seattle Coffee Company, has sold out toStarbucks for a cool $1.5 million per outlet, including some that are mere kiosks.However, this relative ease of entry has allowed other entrepreneurs to do it their way.1996 was also the year of opening for the first curiously named Boston Tea Partycoffeehouse.“http://www.virtualcoffee.com/jun/england.html - Cached
CoffeeGeek - The Latte Gambit
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„Many specialty coffee independents find little good to say about Starbucks, but Schomer of Espresso Vivace observes that the company did "raise the bar on professionalism," setting a high standard for cleanliness, consistency and service. Starbucks, he says, spelled the end for dives like The Last Exit to Brooklyn, which Schomer frequented when he was a student at the University of Washington. ("The bathroom required a gas mask to enter," he quips, "and the coffee was ground fresh that week.")“http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/cafestage/ 06-02-2003 - Cached
„Canton, MA. --- The country’s leading fair trade coffee company praised Starbucks for its recent announcement of intent to purchase a small portion of its coffee under certified fair trade terms. Massachusetts-based Equal Exchange pioneered the fair trade coffee movement in the United States in 1986 and to date remains the largest and only company to purchase 100% of its coffee from small farmer cooperatives under internationally recognized fair trade criteria.“http://www.equalexchange.com/news_info/ prstarbucks.html - Cached
Tea & Coffee 06/03 - Trade News
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„The company intends to further develop both brands and maintain the distinct coffee flavor profiles of SBC and TI. This transaction supports Starbucks’ long-term strategy to expand and build upon its leadership position in the super premium coffee segment within foodservice and grocery businesses by providing a multiple brand growth opportunity, states the company. Seattle Coffee Company has built a strong wholesale business with both the SBC and TI brands.“http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0603/trade.htm - Cached
Global Exchange : News Updates
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„But they would be more impressed if the company made a permanent, significant commitment to Fair Trade purchasing. In 2000 Starbucks promised to sell Fair Trade Certified coffee—to head off a campaign by the international human rights group Global Exchange demanding that the company buy at least five percent of its coffee under Fair Trade Certified terms. Yet, in 2004 less than one percent of Starbucks’ coffee is Fair Trade Certified.“http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ update.html - Cached
„(CSRwire) SEATTLE, WA - Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) hosted more than 20 organizations on February 27 to solicit constructive feedback from stakeholders on its revised Coffee Sourcing Guidelines and Preferred Supplier Program. The Guidelines and Program are an innovative approach by Starbucks to promote the sustainability of quality green coffee and the social, economic and environmental sustainability of coffee farmers.“http://www.aboutcoffee.net/ 2004_03_14_bcearc.html - Cached
Fairtrade | Publications | Fair Comment | Summer 2003
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„Starbucks Coffee Company UK joins Costa Coffee as the second high street coffee shop chain to offer Fairtrade coffee. From the end of June, Starbucks will serve Fairtrade coffee as ‘coffee of the day’ once a month. Customers will always be able to order Fairtrade coffee in a cafetiere or buy it in a packet to take home.“http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/fc-sum02a.htm - Cached
„ In 1997, for example, Starbucks sought to enforce its trademark for its "Christmas Blend" in order to stop a small company based on an island near Seattle from selling a coffee blend with the same name. Starbucks eventually dropped the suit, but not before getting a lot of press about the conflict. Enforcement is up to the company that owns the trademark, but having the legal right to use a name will make most of these conflicts pretty clear-cut.“http://www.freshcup.com/apr04_coffee_rights.htm - Cached
Tea & Coffee 02/04 - World News
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„“Paris is the ideal gateway for Starbucks entry into the French market,” said Howard Schultz, chairman, Starbucks Coffee Company. “We take great pride in opening our first Starbucks store in France, and look forward to building a great and enriching relationship with the French people by offering them the highest quality of coffee along with the ‘Starbucks Experience”“http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0204/world.htm - Cached
„In response to the unprecedented natural disaster in Southeast Asia, Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq:SBUX) has made an initial contribution of $100,000 to two international relief organizations -- CARE and Oxfam UK. Both international relief organizations have been actively involved in the rescue efforts in the countries that were badly impacted by the earthquake and tsunamis.“http://www.aboutcoffee.net/2004/12/ starbucks-donates-100000-to-southeast.html - Cached
BBC - Press Office - Magazine sponsorship deals
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„BBC Good Food magazine, the UK's market leading food title, has secured an exclusive sponsorship deal with Starbucks Coffee Company, the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee in the world. For the first time, Starbucks Coffee Company is sponsoring the BBC Good Food magazine's 2005 calendar.“http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/commercial/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2004/.../ magazine_sponsorship.shtml - Cached
Tea & Coffee 12/02 - People News
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„Orin Smith, president and ceo of Starbucks Coffee Company announced the appointment of Colin W. Moore as the first president of its Canadian operations. Moore brings to this position more than two decades of executive leadership experience within the soft drink and quick service restaurant industry, as reported by The Globe and Mail.“http://www.teaandcoffee.net/1202/people.htm - Cached
First Recycled Cup Approved by FDA - National Coffee Association
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„The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has approved for the first time the use of recycled content in food packaging, granting permission to Mississippi River Corporation to produce environmentally-positive hot beverage cups for Starbucks Coffee Company.“http://www.ncausa.org/public/pages/ headlinedetails.cfm?id=291&returnto=1 - Cached
Tea & Coffee 04/02 - Product Showcase
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„Starbucks Coffee Company, 2401 Utah Avenue South, Seattle, Washington 98134. Tel: (206) 318-8474, Fax: (206) 318-0408, Web site: www.starbucks.com“http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0402/product.htm - Cached
Global Exchange : Starbucks in alliance to maintain coffee supply
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„Starbucks President and CEO Orin Smith said the alliance is partly his company's effort to pass on the "high price" of a cup of coffee to farmers.“http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 2562.html - Cached
Fairtrade | About Fairtrade | Chronology of Fairtrade in the UK
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„In March, Starbucks Coffee Company UK starts to serve Fairtrade coffee as an option.“http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/ about_chronology.htm - Cached
CoffeeGeek - Press Releases
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„Starbucks Corporation completes acquisition of Seattle Coffee Company“http://www.coffeegeek.com/resources/ pressreleases - Cached