Scholarly Research Paper from the year 2008 in the subject Business
economics - Operations Research, grade: 1,0, University of Applied
Sciences Berlin, course: International Entrepreneurship, language:
English, comment: This assignment contains not only 15 figures but
also an Integral Total Management Checklist that summarizes the
topic under all management perspectives to give a 360-Degree
Feedback., abstract: 1971, when the 'Starbucks experience' begun,
Starbucks was just a small coffee shop in Seattle, USA. Today,
Starbucks, named after the first mate in Herman Melville's Moby
Dick, is the world's leading retailer, roaster and brand of
specialty coffee with millions of customer visits per week at
stores in North America, Europe, Middle East, Latin America and the
Pacific Rim. Thus, within not more than three decades, Starbucks'
offering of distinctive blend of quality coffee, neighbourly
camaraderie and a unique coffeehouse culture combined with an
aggressive growth strategy helped it to become the most famous
specialty coffee shop chain in the world and a global company: In
2007, it run more than 15,000 stores worldwide by employing more
than 172,000 people. But in the same year 2007 - despite revenues
of USD 9.4 billion - Starbucks had to report a first-ever decline
in same-store sales. As early as the mid-1990s, analysts had been
predicting that Starbucks could not sustain such strong growth,
especially in same-store sales. For more than 10 years, Starbucks
had consistently beaten these expectations. By 2007, however,
Starbucks unprecedented size, combined with the uncertainty of the
economy, had placed the company in a new competitive game. As a
result, in early 2008, Starbucks announced a series of initiatives
to cope with the new challenges and to prepare for a successful
future - all of them based on renewing the focus on customer
experience and slowing down expansion. But what constitutes the
Starbucks strategy that has been that successful in the pas
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