What roles does culture play in the case? Specify.
Forbidden City is China’s largest preserved imperial palace and was the centre of Chinese political life for 500 years and is located in the centre of Beijing. It was built in the year 1420 and was the home of the mid-Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
It was listed by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world. It was declared as the World Heritage Site in the year 1987 as the Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasty.
Each year, the Forbidden City welcomed 6 million visitors, with just 1 million being foreigners. It is considered as a place of high heritage value with emotional
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Should Starbucks Leave, even though they were invited by the officials?
Yes, Starbucks should leave the Forbidden City as it represents the cultural heritage and history for the China while SB represents the fast pace of metropolitan city, the two should not be mixed together.
Even though they were invited by the officials, but having a public pressure from more than half-a-million Chinese internet users also tends to be a drawback for the brand, which has about 250 other stores spread across various parts of China.
So, not only this decision is necessary because of the pressure and also is logical as we do not want this to affect the sales of other sores also.
The Starbuck at Forbidden City has closed the coffee shop in the month of July 2007.
How might Starbucks have possibly avoided this negative publicity?
Starbucks have tried to blend in with the Chinese traditions and cultures, but could not. They took long term measures for the greater China like having Corporate Social Responsibility Programs like having invested 5 million US dollars in the China Education Project. They wanted to be perceived as” a different kind of
The Forbidden City was built during the early Ming dynasty,by the third emperor Zhu-Di. The emperor wanted to build the palace right in the middle of China,Beijing.
The Great Wall of China is something that has stood for a culture for over two thousand years! It is a magnificent physical structure and cultural icon that represents an immense undertaking that shows a culture to the world.
The Forbidden City was placed in the very heart of Beijing, and was home to 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The construction work for it started in the fourth year of the Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty and ended in 1420. In historical times, the emperor had said that he was a son of heaven and emperors’ residence on earth was built as a copy of the Purple Palace where god was thought to live in heaven. To represent the power of the emperor given from god, and the place where he lived being the center of the world, all the gates, palace and other structures of the Forbidden City were arranged about the north-south central axis of old Beijing. For safety the Forbidden City is enclosed by a 10 meter high defensive wall and at each corner stands watchtowers, which was heavily guarded in the past. Around the city there is a moat as the first line of defense which is 52 meters wide. The city consists of about 980 buildings, mostly in
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With that store being there to help support new stores that would be entering the region. The goal was to have around 20 stores after two years of entering a market and have those stores expand even further into smaller cities and suburban locations. They also started to add drive-through because it made it more convenient for parents with small children. Some of the drawbacks of drive-through were that it took away from impulse buys and sometimes created bottlenecks in the line. Licensing the brand was also a great way that they expanded their business; by putting Starbucks in airports in malls they create a lot of foot traffic lead to successful stores. Starbucks carefully considered their image and the image they wanted to uphold when choosing licensees. The international market is now where Starbucks has the most potential to grow. As of right now Starbucks has plans to open 1,400 new stores in China. That’s more than half of the store it already has in China. The growth technique that I was most impressed with was that having two locations so close to each other would not saturate the market. The first store would see a drop in sales at first but would bounce back and the new store would grow. I notice we have that here, at Target in uptown you can actually see the Starbucks across the street while you are in line. Both seem pretty busy most of the time too.
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