Starbucks

Starbucks is a global coffee company with over 23,000 storefronts selling coffee and espresso drinks in 75 countries. It was founded in 1971, and has expanded its tea, bakery, and grab-and-go offerings with acquisitions of Teavana, La Boulange, and Evolution Fresh, respectively. In recent years, the company has focused on reshaping its business model in ways that do more social good. That includes a partnership with Feeding America to donate 100% of all daily leftovers to nearby community groups--an effort that’s expected to decrease the company’s food waste and provide 50 million meals annually by the time it scales in 2020. In 2017, Starbucks committed to hiring 10,000 refugees at stores in areas where they’ve resettled, while continuing to open cafes to provide jobs and boost development in economically depressed cities around the United States. Current spots, including Ferguson, Missouri; Baltimore; and Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, among others, are already up and running.

Lists

2018: Social Good

2017: Food

2014: Design

2012: Top 50, Food and Beverage

2011: Retail

Data

public or private: Public

staff: 330,000

users: Between 85 million and 90 million customers per week globally

headquarters: Seattle, Washington

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https://www.starbucks.com/

Stories about Starbucks

Fast Company Magazine

More than 180,000 Starbucks employees now get subsidized backup childcare, thanks to this VP

Creativity

That Game of Thrones coffee cup was the most preventable self-own in TV history

The cup may be gone, but it actually stole a scene in which showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss made a cameo.

Co.Design

Hey HBO, Adobe fixed the Starbucks cup in Game of Thrones for you

Creativity

What’s that coffee cup on Game of Thrones worth to Starbucks?

A misplaced cup is getting Starbucks some major-yet-unexpected advertising opportunity.

Creativity

Was there a Starbucks-style cup on Game of Thrones last night? Verily

Pumpkin spice lattes are coming, apparently.

News

Starbucks recalls coffee makers over injury fears, but at least there are new summer drinks

Co.Design

Starbucks’ new Roastery is an Instagram-ready spectacle

Designed by architect Kengo Kuma and featuring wild new cocktails, Starbucks’s new Tokyo location is ready for its caffeinated close-up.

News

Bad music at Starbucks: When does it become a workers’ rights issue?

Co.Design

Starbucks and McDonald’s are testing these radical cups of the future

A coalition of some of the biggest brands on the planet just awarded $1 million to 12 companies trying to build a cup that’s easy to recycle. Here are the finalists.

News

Howard Schultz is already starting in with the bad coffee references

Co.Design

Howard Schultz’s logo looks like he signed it on a Starbucks cup

Co.Design

“Brand purpose” is a lie

From Gillette to Starbucks to Johnson & Johnson, companies love to extol the virtues of their brand, without actually living up to them. Here is what today’s companies could learn from the Quakers, writes Paddle Consulting’s Brian Millar.

Co.Design

7 subtle ways design will change how you travel this year

Traffic drones, AI-powered airports, grocery-delivering robots: Design and technology are quietly reshaping how people and goods move around the world.

Impact

The most exciting corporate sustainability moves of 2018

It’s been quite the year for companies–from Apple to UPS to Ikea–trying to lighten their environmental footprints.

News

Okay, who is watching porn at Starbucks?

Creativity

Watch this artist turn the Starbucks siren into Freddie Mercury and Miyazaki’s Totoro

Impact

Starbucks recycled 25 million old paper coffee cups into new cups

Many cities don’t accept coffee cups in their recycling. Now there’s proof it works.

News

Seriously, what does Starbucks have against Thanksgiving?

News

Here’s all the free food you can get on Halloween

Creativity

Starbucks

Stories about Starbucks

More than 180,000 Starbucks employees now get subsidized backup childcare, thanks to this VP

That Game of Thrones coffee cup was the most preventable self-own in TV history

The cup may be gone, but it actually stole a scene in which showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss made a cameo.

Hey HBO, Adobe fixed the Starbucks cup in Game of Thrones for you

What’s that coffee cup on Game of Thrones worth to Starbucks?

A misplaced cup is getting Starbucks some major-yet-unexpected advertising opportunity.

Was there a Starbucks-style cup on Game of Thrones last night? Verily

Pumpkin spice lattes are coming, apparently.

Starbucks recalls coffee makers over injury fears, but at least there are new summer drinks

Starbucks’ new Roastery is an Instagram-ready spectacle

Designed by architect Kengo Kuma and featuring wild new cocktails, Starbucks’s new Tokyo location is ready for its caffeinated close-up.

Bad music at Starbucks: When does it become a workers’ rights issue?

Starbucks and McDonald’s are testing these radical cups of the future

A coalition of some of the biggest brands on the planet just awarded $1 million to 12 companies trying to build a cup that’s easy to recycle. Here are the finalists.

Howard Schultz is already starting in with the bad coffee references

Howard Schultz’s logo looks like he signed it on a Starbucks cup

“Brand purpose” is a lie

From Gillette to Starbucks to Johnson & Johnson, companies love to extol the virtues of their brand, without actually living up to them. Here is what today’s companies could learn from the Quakers, writes Paddle Consulting’s Brian Millar.

7 subtle ways design will change how you travel this year

Traffic drones, AI-powered airports, grocery-delivering robots: Design and technology are quietly reshaping how people and goods move around the world.

The most exciting corporate sustainability moves of 2018

It’s been quite the year for companies–from Apple to UPS to Ikea–trying to lighten their environmental footprints.

Okay, who is watching porn at Starbucks?

Watch this artist turn the Starbucks siren into Freddie Mercury and Miyazaki’s Totoro

Starbucks recycled 25 million old paper coffee cups into new cups

Many cities don’t accept coffee cups in their recycling. Now there’s proof it works.

Seriously, what does Starbucks have against Thanksgiving?

Here’s all the free food you can get on Halloween

Ed Sheeran paid more U.K. tax last year than Starbucks or Amazon

Impact

Creativity

Co.Design

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