Starbucks

Starbucks Founded

Mar 30, 1971

Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA

Takes off

May 8, 1982

1982 Howard Schultz joins Starbucks as director of retail
operations and marketing.Starbucks begins providing coffee
to fine restaurants and espressobars.

Ciao Italy!

Feb 16, 1983

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.

The intro to Caffe latte

Feb 16, 1984

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.

Starbucks changed logo

Mar 20, 1987

Stores

Apr 13, 1989

Starbucks has a total of fifty-five stores

First airport Cafe

Feb 16, 1991

Starbucks opened their first licensed airport store in Seattle's Sea-Tac International Airport. Starbucks has a total of 116 stores

Frappuccino Was Born

Jan 21, 1993

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.

First Bottled Frappuccino

Jan 25, 1996

opend a over sea's store

Aug 25, 1996

Starbucks opened in Tokyo, the first store to operate overseas. More than 250 stores opened abroad from 1996-99.

The Starbucks Foundation

Feb 16, 1997

Establishes The Starbucks Foundation, benefiting local literacy programs in communities where Starbucks has coffeehouses.Opens stores in: the Philippines. Total stores: 1,412

Tea company, extends stores, opens its own website

Feb 16, 1998

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.

ready brew coffee

May 25, 2009

Launches innovative VIA™ Ready Brew coffee.
Opens Farmer Support Center in Kigali, Rwanda.
Becomes the world’s largest buyer of Fair Trade Certified™
coffee.

Starbucks Creates a New Dessert Beverage

Feb 17, 2015

Creates Tiramisu Latte

Decorative cups

Nov 1, 2015

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.