Starbucks’ Mission Statement Establish Starbucks as the premier purveyor of the finest coffee in the world while maintaining our uncompromising principles while we grow. The following six guiding principles will help us measure the appropriateness of our decisions: • Provide a great work environment and treat each other with respect and dignity. • Embrace diversity as an essential component in the way we do business. • Apply the highest standards of excellence to the purchasing, roasting and fresh delivery of our coffee. • Develop enthusiastically satisfied customers all of the time. • Contribute positively to our communities and our environment. • Recognize that profitability is essential to our future success. Corporate Objectives 1. Establish Starbucks as the most recognized and respected brand in the world 2. Achieve rapid growth through national and global retail store expansion opportunities – target 25,000 to 30,000 stores worldwide by 2013 3. Increase revenue through innovation of new products, and consistent delivery of the Starbucks experience 4. Increase U.S. and global market share – Target >7 percent U.S. and >1 percent worldwide 5. Secure a reliable supply of high-quality coffee beans, at stable prices, through environmentally and socially responsible means 6. Leverage the Starbucks’ brand through diversified product offerings Corporate Strategies 1. Market penetration of retail stores 2. Global market development 3. Backward vertical integration through direct purchase agreements with coffee growers, established company owned and operated coffee bean roasting plants, warehousing and distribution facilities 4. Forward vertical integration through Starbuck’s retail stores 5. Forward vertical integration through joint ventures, and licensing agreements to market and distribute Starbucks’ products in new channels 6. Horizontal integration through acquisition of Ethos Water to expand and diversify Starbucks’ line of beverages in their retail stores 7. Diversify Starbucks’ product offerings to include music CDs, coffee making equipment, mugs, and accessories, as well as develop new coffee related products through partnership agreements with other food and beverage manufacturers Starbucks’ Mission Statement Establish Starbucks as the premier purveyor of the finest coffee in the world while maintaining our uncompromising principles while we grow. The following six guiding principles will help us measure the appropriateness of our decisions: • Provide a great work environment and treat each other with respect and dignity. • Embrace diversity as an essential component in the way we do business. • Apply the highest standards of excellence to the purchasing, roasting and fresh delivery of our coffee. • Develop enthusiastically satisfied customers all of the time. • Contribute positively to our communities and our environment. • Recognize that profitability is essential to our future success. Corporate Objectives 1. Establish Starbucks as the most recognized and respected brand in the world 2. Achieve rapid growth through national and global retail store expansion opportunities – target 25,000 to 30,000 stores worldwide by 2013
Senior Management of PepsiCo is evaluating the potential acquisition of two companies – Carts of Colorado and California Pizza Kitchen – in order to expand the company’s restaurant business. If indeed PepsiCo decides to pursue the acquisition of one or both, they must decide how to align each of these business units in its historically decentralized management approach and how to forge relationships between the acquired business units and existing business units. In their evaluation, Senior Management is faced with the question of whether the necessary capital investment in order to purchase one or both of the businesses can be profitable for each of the acquired business units, but must also take into consideration that the additional business units will not hinder the profitability of the existing business units.
The structure of Starbucks business communication is exceptional. Rather you are in their store buying a Caramel Frappuccino®, visiting their website or watching one of their advertisements on television; as the consumer, the message is loud and clear. Pick up any newspaper and you are likely to find an article about the coffee giant. Starbucks pledges a commitment to their over 172,000 partners (employees) and the community. “We realize our people are the cornerstone of our success, and we know that their ideas, commitment and connection to our customers are truly the essential elements in the Starbucks Experience” (Starbucks, 2008).
Emphasis on quality, Starbucks Experience, brand image, and important suppliers to dispute lower price contributions to competitors hence increasing profits
We intend to achieve this first and foremost by improving sales per square meter of selling space in existing stores. An absolute focus on the customer and engaging in socially and environmentally responsible business practices are crucial to this effort. We also aim to significantly improve customer satisfaction. To raise our appeal to private and professional customers, we are making targeted investments in new services. In addition, we are selectively adjusting our sales lines' price levels to further bolster their competitive positions. Finally, we are realigning our incentive systems for employees to encourage additional productivity
Starbucks not only shapes a defined importance on its product, the coffee, but also the relationships on its partners, its customers and its shareholders to create diversity, “to create a place where each of us can be ourselves” (Starbucks Coffee), to treat all related partners with dignity and respect at the greatest corporate level. In this sense, Starbucks involves its customers, its neighbors and is shareholders to participate in the community to “be a force for positive action—bringing together [its] partners, customers, and the community to contribute every day (Starbucks Coffee).
Today, Costa have stores all across the United Kingdom, and other retail stores also include Ottakar's, Waterstones Bookshop, WHSmith and Homebase stores, Marriott hotel. Instead, the company should aim to introduce coffee as a relaxing and common activity for the Chinese population. The best way for the company to achieve this is to give the customers the impression that coffee is a part of their life, and this can be done by increasing more shops and advertisements in the community. However it is very exhausting and time consuming for Costa Coffee to try and manage all the coffee chain outlets in China.
Coffee is a worldwide cash crop of which demand has exponentially increased over the years. “Coffee is (after oil) the world’s second most important traded commodity” (Cleaver 61). Competing coffee brewing companies wage war on offering the freshest, best tasting coffee the market has to offer. With such stiff competition there must be enough coffee beans deemed to be good enough in quality to supply the increasing demand. Starbucks can be considered one of today’s top competitors if not thee top coffee manufacturer presently in business. This successful company has had a huge impact on the coffee industry as well as the world. They have gone through great length to provide consumers with an excellent product as well as create a legacy that shows how to best go about running a massive corporation while keeping the environment clean and healthy.
As mention earlier Starbucks has many opportunities of which it can take advantage. These include a joint venture with McDonald’s, where the restaurant giant would supply its customers with Starbucks coffee. Another is the bottled Frappuccino product that Pepsi and Starbucks have created. This has had a very positive response in the test markets and posses to be a lucrative option. Starbucks could also look at the vertical integration possibility of producing its own beans. This could prove to be very successful if they can capture a significant amount of the production they could become a price setter in the coffee commodities. Also because small coffee retail outlets are so trendy it is possible for them to set ...
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Finally, this report will identify recomendations for Starbucks to minimze future loss and to compete with major competitors like McCafe and Gloria Jeans Coffee.
2. Growth in existing markets – growth will come by increasing market share through additional door rollouts, comp sales, and launching new categories like watches
Business Environment – The firm is considered a coffee giant company that is a big brand in the business being able to expand aggressively in the market worldwide before it entered in New Zealand. But the business environment of this country is quite unimaginable for a US based company for it to venture without having a thorough marketing analysis covering all the risks in the venture considering the distance and the traditions which differs a lot in many countries thus making it very unique and incomparable. It is only when the company is able to come up with the correct strategy in entering the business that will make it thriving. Starbucks New Zealand entered the Kiwi market by way of franchise and joint ventures. They partnered with a very stable local business partner called The Restaurant Brands New Zealand Ltd. In this case, the company is able to hurdle the market barriers including business laws, taxation, physical set up, traditional and cultural differences that may come along the way. (Starbucks, 2012)
In addition to being best-known supplier of the finest coffee and promising only the highest quality products, Starbucks emphasizes firm values, provides guidelines to enhance employee self-esteem. This is to ensure continued customer satisfaction. Moreover, diversity has become a priority to providing an inviting environment to all consumers. Starbucks continues to abide by a strict, slow growth policy in which they set out to dominate a market before moving on to expand, thus history has shown this strategy to be successful for Starbucks, making them one the fastest growing companies nationwide.
At the end of my interview I will try to suggest what steps should be made to keep the company in continuing its quest to become one of the most recognized and respected brands in the world. Introduction With clear core values towards providing quality coffee, the best service, and atmosphere, Starbucks has enjoyed great success since it was founded 30 years ago. The company has been doing very well for the last 11 years with 5% or more store sales increase, even with the rest of the economy still reeling from the post-9/11 recession. However, recent research, conducted by Starbucks, has shown some concerns regarding the company’s problem meeting customers’ expectations.