COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Starbucks Corp. (Starbucks) is a retailer of speciality coffee. Specialty coffee is roasted,
marketed, and sold in stores. The business sells a variety of coffee blends, artisan beverages,
goods, and food products through its outlets. Additionally, Starbucks provides ready-made
drinks, pastries, whole bean and ground coffee, as well as other libations. Its brands include
Teavana, Evolution Fresh, Starbucks Reserve, Princi, Seattle's Best Coffee, and The company
has locations in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through its
owned and licensed outlets. In Nevada, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, China, and other
US states, the corporation runs roasting operations as well as production, storage, and
distribution facilities. Seattle, Washington, in the US, serves as the organization's headquarters.
It starts in 1971 on the cobblestone streets of Seattle's venerable Pike Place Market. Starbucks
built its first location in this location, providing our customers with freshly roasted coffee beans,
tea, and spices from all over the world to take home. It's name was derived from the well-known
story "Moby-Dick," which evokes the maritime heritage of the early coffee Ten years later,
Howard Schultz, a young New Yorker, would enter through these doors and, after taking his first
sip, fall in love with Starbucks coffee. A different cobblestone route would take him to another
discovery once he joined the organization in 1982. The first time Howard visited an Italian
coffee shop was in Milan in 1983, and upon his return to Seattle, he was inspired to infuse
Starbucks with the friendliness and creativity of Italian coffee culture. By 1987, we had switched
from brown to green aprons and were starting a new chapter as a coffee shop. In the near future,
Starbucks would grow to include Chicago and Vancouver in Canada, followed by California and
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