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Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA
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1982 Howard Schultz joins Starbucks as director of retail
operations and marketing.Starbucks begins providing coffee
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Howard travels to Italy, where he’s impressed with the popularity of espresso bars in Milan. He sees the potential to develop a similar coffeehouse culture in Seattle.
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Howard convinces the founders of Starbucks to test the coffeehouse concept in downtown Seattle, where the first Starbucks Caffe Latte is served. This successful experiment is the genesis for a company that Schultz founds in 1985.
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Starbucks has a total of fifty-five stores
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Starbucks opened their first licensed airport store in Seattle's Sea-Tac International Airport. Starbucks has a total of 116 stores
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Starbucks Bartistas in Santa Monica California began experimenting to develop an iced coffee bevarage. Starbucks offfers the beverage in test markets in California, and they are an instant hit.
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Starbucks opened in Tokyo, the first store to operate overseas. More than 250 stores opened abroad from 1996-99.
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Establishes The Starbucks Foundation, benefiting local literacy programs in communities where Starbucks has coffeehouses.Opens stores in: the Philippines. Total stores: 1,412
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Starbucks aquires Tazo, which is a tea company. Extends their stores into grocery channels across the United States and also opens their own website: Starbucks.com.
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Launches innovative VIA™ Ready Brew coffee.
Opens Farmer Support Center in Kigali, Rwanda.
Becomes the world’s largest buyer of Fair Trade Certified™
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Creates Tiramisu Latte
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Starbucks bans decorative cups for the holiday season because they are getting complaints that the decorations of santa claus might be offensive to different religions.
