Starbucks

Question

This piglix contains articles or sub-piglix about Starbucks

Answer 1

Ethos Water

Ethos Water, a Starbucks subsidiary, is a brand of bottled water with a social mission of "helping children get clean water." Ethos began in 2001 when Peter Thum had the idea after working in communities in South Africa that lacked access to clean water. Thum, who was working as consultant for McKinsey & Company at the time, realized the potential to create a bottled water brand to raise awareness and funding for safe water programs. The idea became an obsession for Thum, and he wrote the business plan for Ethos, left McKinsey, and moved to New York in early 2002 to start the venture.

Thum recruited his business school classmate Jonathan Greenblatt to join Ethos in late 2002. They launched operations as a bottled water company in August 2003, and also formed an organization called Ethos International to invest funds from the business in safe water programs.

Since only $0.05-0.10 of the retail price ($1.80) goes to charity, the Ethos brand is primarily commercial and therefore a for-profit organization. Nevertheless, as of at least 2009, Ethos, through the Starbucks Foundation, had granted more than $6 million, according to the company, to help support water, sanitation and hygiene education programs. Unlike previous socially responsible brands, Ethos pioneered linking cause to consumption, a model later replicated by brands such as Toms Shoes and Warby Parker.

Ethos water is manufactured by PepsiCo, & Safeway's Lucerne brand, but unlike other Pepsi products, Ethos bottles do not contain recycled plastic.

In 2005 Starbucks purchased the company for $8 million.

...

Wikipedia

Answer 2

Frappuccino

Frappuccino

Frappuccino is a trademarked brand of the Starbucks Corporation for a line of blended coffee beverages that are served cold. It consists of coffee or other base ingredient (e.g. strawberries, bananas, cream), blended with ice and other various ingredients, usually topped with whipped cream and sauces. Frappuccinos are also sold as bottled coffee beverages in stores and from vending machines.

Frappuccino is a portmanteau of "frappe", the New England name for a milkshake with ice cream, and cappuccino, an espresso coffee with frothed milk. The word was coined and trademarked in Boston, Massachusetts. In the Boston area, a "" (pronounced "frap" and spelled without the accent) is a thick milkshake with ice cream, derived from the French word frappé.

The original Frappuccino beverage was developed, named, trademarked and sold by George Howell's Eastern Massachusetts coffee shop chain, The Coffee Connection. When Starbucks purchased The Coffee Connection in 1994, they also gained the rights to use, make, market, and sell the Frappuccino beverage. The beverage, with a different recipe, was introduced under the Starbucks name in 1995 and as of 2012, Starbucks had annual Frappuccino sales of over $2 billion.

The recipe is a fusion of various cold beverages, including the coffee frap (similar to iced coffee) and the frappe (blended ice cream, syrup, and milk), with the Italian cappuccino.

In response to the success of the Frappuccino, several of Starbucks' competitors have developed similar drinks with similar-sounding names: Cinnabon's Mochalatta and Caramelatta (1998);Coffee Break;Gloria Jean's Chillers.

...

Wikipedia

Answer 3

Stephen Gillett

Stephen Gillett is a technology and business leader. Currently he works with Google's "moonshot unit" called Google[x]. Gillett accepted a position as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Symantec in December 20, 2012, leaving behind his position as President Best Buy Digital and Executive Vice President Global Business Services at Best Buy in greater Minneapolis, MN. He departed Symantec in November 2014. Gillett is the former Chief Information Officer, Executive Vice President of Digital Ventures at Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle, WA and was hired by Howard Schultz as part of the transformation leadership team in 2008. Gillett previously held executive positions at Corbis, Yahoo and CNET. He currently lives and works in the Silicon Valley.

Gillett was born in Panorama City, CA and grew up in Eugene, Oregon. He is of Lebanese descent: his father being from Tripoli, Lebanon. He was a member of the University of Oregon Football team in the late 1990s and attended the 1996 Cotton Bowl Classic.

As of January 2009, Gillett was considered amongst the youngest of the C-Level executives in the Fortune 500.

In 2005, Gillett was featured on HGTV Curb Appeal in San Francisco.

Gillett is a long-time MMORPG guild leader most recently in World of Warcraft.

In 2006, Gillett was recognized as an innovative Guild Master in World of Warcraft by Wired (magazine) You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired!

...

Wikipedia

Answer 4

Hear Music

Hear Music

Hear Music is the brand name of Starbucks' retail music concept and record label. Hear Music began as a catalog company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1990 before being purchased by Starbucks in 1999.

The Hear Music brand has four components: the music that each location plays; in-store CD sales, including Starbucks exclusives; branded retail stores (which opened shortly after the catalog was formed) and a label distributing their recordings.

As of December 2006, there are four Starbucks Hear Music Coffeehouses: Santa Monica, California, on the Third Street Promenade; San Antonio, Texas, on the River Walk; Miami, Florida, on the Lincoln Road shopping promenade; and Bellevue, Washington, in Bellevue Square. The original, now-defunct Hear Music Store was located in Berkeley, California. Ten Starbucks locations also have Hear Music "media bars," a service which uses tablet-based PCs to allow customers to create their own mix CDs. The media bars are currently located in Seattle and in Austin, Texas. Additionally, the music section in Canadian bookstore chain Chapters was at one time licensed version of the Hear Music concept; however, the company no longer uses the brand name.

Starbucks is one of the top 40 music-oriented retailers. Its biggest seller was Ray Charles' Grammy-winning Genius Loves Company, with total sales of 2.86 million records; 25% of those were sold at Starbucks locations.

...

Wikipedia

Answer 5

How Starbucks Saved My Life

How Starbucks Saved My Life

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else is a memoir by Michael Gates Gill that chronicles his journey from a high-level advertising executive with J. Walter Thompson to a barista at Starbucks. The book has been optioned by Tom Hanks for a film; filmmaker Gus Van Sant has also been in talks to direct. Gill is the son of famed The New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, and the brother of Charles Gill, author of the 1987 fiction book The Boozer Challenge.

Michael Gates Gill had it all by his fifties: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an Ivy League education. Within a few years, he lost his job, got divorced, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. With no money or health insurance, he got a job at Starbucks.

An unexpected teacher opens his eyes to what living well really looks like. She is a young African American, the daughter of a drug addict; he is used to being the boss but reports to her now. For the first time in his life he experiences being a member of a minority trying hard to survive in a challenging new job. He learns the value of hard work and humility, as well as what it truly means to respect another person.

...

Wikipedia

Answer 6

Wright Massey

Wright Massey

Wright Massey (b. June 21, 1953) is an American businessman and entrepreneur most widely known as the Vice President of Development of Starbucks, the Director of Design at The Disney Store, and designer of the famous Coca-Cola sign in Times Square. Wright Massey founded Brand Architecture, his architecture and design firm, in 1999, and is currently redesigning Outback Steakhouse.

In 1994, he joined Seattle's Starbucks to completely redesign the stores. He is credited with creating the Synergistic Rollout Program that built one store per day, saving Starbucks $20M a year. Massey also established the Creative Services Group which produced the brand identity and the store design. Massey created a visual brand language for Starbucks that was recognizable and distinctive, the way Coca-Cola maintained the color red, the Spencerian script, and the red bottle for over 100 years. The visual brand language consisted of icons, stories, and color palettes that conveyed the look and feel of Starbucks graphics.

Massey's Synergistic Rollout Program helped aggressively expand Starbucks' reach across the United States. In Schultz's co-authored book called Pour Your Heart into It, Schultz states about Massey: "Given the apparently contradictory tasks of lowering costs while creating a better design, Wright’s team not only accomplished that but also a third: devising novel formats that would allow sales in locations we never could have considered before."

...

Wikipedia

Answer 7

2016 Jakarta attacks

2016 Jakarta attacks

8 total

On 14 January 2016, multiple explosions and gunfire were reported near the Sarinah shopping mall in central Jakarta, Indonesia, at the intersection of Jalan Kyai Haji Wahid Hasyim and Jalan MH Thamrin. One blast went off in a Starbucks cafe and one went off at a police post outside the mall. The attack occurred near a United Nations (UN) information centre, as well as luxury hotels and foreign embassies, including France's. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) confirmed that a Dutch UN official was seriously injured in the attacks. It was reported an armed stand-off took place on the fourth level of the Menara Cakrawala (Skyline Building) on Jalan MH Thamrin. At least eight people—four attackers and four civilians (three Indonesians and an Algerian-Canadian)—were killed, and 23 others were injured due to the attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility.

Though Indonesia is far from the conflicts of the Middle East, the country has experienced several attacks by Islamist militants in the past two decades that have killed hundreds.

This was the first major attack in Jakarta since the 2009 Jakarta bombings, which were carried out by Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and killed 7 plus 2 suicide bombers. JI is an al-Qaeda-linked group seeking to unite Indonesia, Malaysia, and the southern Philippines under an Islamic state. Since the 2002 Bali bombings, in which over 200 were killed, Indonesia has stepped up attempts to crackdown on violent extremism. A law was enacted by the Indonesian legislature in 2003 in this regard.

According to a spokesman for the Indonesian National Police, the police had received information in November 2015 about a warning from ISIL that there would be an attack in Indonesia. In 2015, it was reported by the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict, that at least 50 Indonesians had joined the thousands of foreign fighters who have travelled to Syria to fight for extremist groups trying to create an Islamic state there.

...

Wikipedia

Answer 8

Mazagran

Mazagran is a kind of drinkware usually used for coffee, which is named after the town of Mazagran in Algeria.

A battle took place there in 1840 between French soldiers and Algerians and the legend says that during the night, the 123 besieged French soldiers drank coffee laced with alcoholic beverages. It is a glass or cup on a foot, optionally also with a handle or a short stem. Mazagrans can be made of terracotta, porcelain or glass.

Coffee drinks (for example: coffee with ice) served in mazagran are sometimes also named mazagran. Mazagran was a name of a failed carbonated coffee soda beverage developed as a collaboration between Starbucks and Pepsi in the mid-1990s.

...

Wikipedia

Answer 9

Original Starbucks

Coordinates: 47°36′36″N 122°20′33″W / 47.609899°N 122.342441°W / 47.609899; -122.342441

The Pike Place Starbucks store, commonly called the Original Starbucks, is the first Starbucks store, established in 1971 at Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The store has kept its early appearance over time and is subject to design guidelines due to its historic significance. The store is considered a tourist attraction and often hosts a crowd.

While commonly referred to as the first Starbucks location, the current address is the second for the Pike Place store. The first Starbucks cafe was located at 2000 Western Avenue from 1971–1976. This cafe later moved to 1912 Pike Place, its present location.

...

Wikipedia

Answer 10

Park Avenue South (album)

Park Avenue South (album)

Park Avenue South is 2003 live album by pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet. The album was recorded over two nights in a branch of Starbucks in Manhattan.

Ken Dryden reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that "The musicians seem very stimulated by the odd surroundings, producing an enticing mix of standards, new Brubeck compositions, and the inevitable "Take Five"...Brubeck wrote the mournful "Elegy" for Norwegian journalist Randi Hultin, who died of cancer before she was able to hear it. The combination of Militello's haunting flute, Michael Moore's matchless arco bass, Randy Jones' soft use of mallets, and the leader's understated piano is powerful enough to hush any audience".

Reviewing the album for the Jazz Times, Doug Ramsey wrote that "We don't know whether Brubeck used his frequent tactic of stimulating his colleagues by launching into standards they don't expect, but freshness and spontaneity of surprise nonetheless saturate...Freshness is Brubeck's stock in trade as he progresses through his ninth decade".

...

Wikipedia