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Authors: Howard Schultz,Joanne Lesley Gordon

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University Village, Seattle, our first redesigned store

 

Edinburgh, Scotland

 

15th Avenue Coffee & Tea, Seattle, our first new concept store

 

Roy Street Coffee & Tea, Seattle, experimenting with live music, film, and local food

 

First and Pike, Seattle, our first new concept store receiving LEED Gold certification

 

Customers awaiting the opening of Starbucks in Fuzhou, China

 

Sanfang Qixiang, Fuzhou, China

 

Chenghuang Miao, Shanghai, China

 

Binjiang, Shanghai, China

 

Grand opening of Starbucks in Budapest

 

Plácido Arango, Howard, and Orin Smith at Paris, France's first store opening

 

Each Starbucks store has its own fingerprint.

 
 

First Starbucks in Paris.

 
Taking it personally

At Starbucks’ 2008 global leadership conference, a four-day event held at the height of the US economic crisis, nearly ten thousand Starbucks partners convened in New Orleans, a city still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, to contribute thousands of hours of community service as well as to hear, directly from Starbucks’ leaders, about changes the company needed to make and the responsibility each partner had to help secure our successful future.

 

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