Coffee and Crisis Management Team

Since they have become a 50% equity investor in a joint venture with Pepsi cola they now manufacture brands such as Frappuccino® beverages, Starbucks DoubleShot®, and Seattle’s Best Coffee®. Starbucks also have been really successful with their own brands such as Tazo® Tea, Seattle’s Best Coffee®, and their flagship brand Starbucks VIA®Ready Brew.

Product: Starbucks offers more than 30 different blends of handcrafted coffee, non-coffee beverages and Tazo tea.

Its products include coffee, eateries, instant coffee powder, Starbucks branded ice creams, ground coffee and beans and other merchandise.

Starbucks extends their coffee experience to everyone: kids, teenagers and adults. Part of their success comes from their ability to create new products that fit the culture of the country. In Japan, for instance, Starbucks launched green tea lattes, which later became popular in other countries (Allison). Starbucks is well established in countries like Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom. In the US alone, Starbucks sells 4 million cups of coffee per day (Horovitz). Their products and services have transformed the way customers view coffee. Changing the way customers order, Starbucks makes it very chic to purchase custom drinks. Starbucks is like no other coffee shop: the dimmed lights

Starbucks makes a variety of products ranging from coffee and non-coffee drinks to attract non-coffee drinkers and they also develop cakes and pastries as coffee

Have you ever been so tired during the day you need a wake up call? I have and Starbucks gives me an extra boost of energy to complete my day. Many consumers buy the product thinking it will help you get energy, find their true love, that it will help your day get better or that it’s all natural. It does this by using pathos, logos and perceived value.

CEO: Serve as the team leader and final decision maker for the company. The CEO is the face of the organization and will be the primary voice for any public statements made.

Coffee has become a significant part of lifestyle of numerous people. Starbucks has opened its first coffee shop in in Seattle, Washington, USA in 1971 (“About Starbucks,” 2014). The Starbucks is very popular today and has more than 6,000 locations in over 30 countries. In addition to coffee and espresso drinks, people now enjoy Tazo tea and Frappuccino (“About Starbucks,” 2014). The main target of Starbucks is to be the consumer’s favorite coffee shop. The globalization of the businesses increases competition in the food and beverage industries. Starbucks is the most successful and competitive coffee chain on the market. The aggressive strategies of expansion pushed the competitors such as McDonalds or Dunkin Donuts

Starbucks also sells pastries, sandwiches, yogurts parfaits, salads, fruit cups, and oatmeal. Of course they also make (which is what they are known for) the infamous Frappuccino.

Starbucks is an organization that is known for being one of the largest coffee chain stores in the United States. They focus on serving delicious coffee to the customers at affordable prices while giving them an amazing experience at their store. Recently the CEO of Starbucks has announced that he will be implementing a new strategic planning initiative to his company to ensure that the customers and employees are getting the full experience of Starbucks Coffee. In his annual report he mentioned these strategies, “A proprietary and revolutionary in-store Clover® brewing system that delivers the best cup of brewed coffee available anywhere; A complete reinvention of brewed coffee in-store, that will be brought to life by baristas across the U.S., who will scoop and grind a new unique coffee blend, connecting customers to the early days of Starbucks; The introduction of a new state-of-the-art espresso system that provides the perfect

As you previously requested I have worked out a memo report on; what Starbucks have done in the past, what they are doing now and how we can learn from them. It is very important to notice what competitors do when there are uncontrollable market conditions, so there can be an easier adapting process.

Starbucks Corporation has been around since 1971. What makes Starbucks unique from other coffee-bar shops is not only their wide selection of products, but the environment they provide to all customers. Starbucks sustains competitive advantage by constantly looking for new ideas, new products, as well as new experiences for guests. Starbucks also offers a selection of music, and unique designed coffee mugs. The company even hires designers to come up with artwork for commuter mugs. Starbucks’ forte is incorporating differentiated features such as their different flavored coffees that no other company offers. They

Starbucks is one of the most famous companies in the world serving coffees, teas, paninis, etc. They have multiple locations around the country such as in Canada in Japan but the majority are located in the United States. Among the multiple products that they sell one of the best sellers is the Frappuccino that is branded and trademarked by Starbucks. Many of their competitors such as McDonalds and Dunkin Doughnuts have tried to create a similar drink without the name Frappuccino but can be considered a knock off which is a product that is an imitation of the original.

Stephen Quinlan and Jose Gomez-Ibanez describes, in “The Coffee Crisis”, that in 2004 the governments of coffee producing countries were considering how to respond to rapid decline to coffee prices. In 2001, coffee prices hit a forty-year low, which resulted in extreme hardships for the local farming communities. On that note, this decline in coffee prices was considered “the coffee crisis.” The coffee crisis came to be thanks in part to coffees: overproduction, under-consumption and oligopoly market

Starbucks first opened its doors in Seattle’s Pike Place Market with the name being coined from that of Moby Dick’s first mate (Schultz & Yang 1999). It has spread its shops across North America, all over Europe, the Middle East, Latin America as well as the Pacific Rim with an estimated 35 million customer weekly (Michelli, 2008). With tremendous growth from a small time coffee shop, the company has matured to an international icon that today it is one of the world’s leading retailer, roaster and brand specialty coffee (Story, 1971). The company offers whole bean coffees, espresso beverages, and confectionery and bakery items.