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Starbucks foundation
Starbucks Coffee Company was founded in Seattle, Washington by three friends who met at the University of San Francisco in the 1960s. The first store sold high-quality coffee beans and equipment by coffee roasting. The company took the name of the chief mate in the book Moby-Dick: Starbuck. -
Director of Marketing
Howard Schultz, an experienced salesman, joined Starbucks as the Director of Marketing. After trip to Milan, Italy, where noted that coffee bars existed on practically every street, he try to persuade the owners to offer traditional espresso beverages but they refused to roll it out company-wide. -
"Il Giornale"
Schultz decided to leave Starbucks in 1985 and opened a new coffee store called "Il Giornale", he took the name of a Milanese newspaper. -
Starbucks is sold to Schultz
The original Starbucks owners sold its company to Schultz who renamed “Il Giornale” and aggressively expanded its brand across the United States (Seattle, Chicago, Illinois, etc.) -
Starbucks Stores
Starbucks had more than 1.000 stores throughout the United States and Canada and opened its first store through Starbucks Coffee International in Japan. -
Starbucks the leading brand
Schultz had made Starbucks the leading brand in coffee shops across the United States. -
Starbucks in Colombia
Starbucks arrives in Colombia and locates its first stores in the main zones and commercial centers of the capital of country. -
Starbucks today
Starbucks Coffee Company has over 24.000 stores in 70 countries through independent subsidiaries, joint venture associations or franchises.
