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19711971
SeattlePike Place Market1ª Tienda en Estados Unidos
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Store manager Ryota Tsunoda, far right, and Japanese employees serve customers at Starbucks Coffee Co.'s store in Ginza shopping district of Tokyo Friday morning, Aug. 2, 1996, the opening day of the Seattle, WA.-based coffee retailer's first overseas store.
19961996
Tokyo1ª Tienda fuerade Estados Unidos
Chinese customers try out the coffee at the opening ceremony of China's first Starbucks coffee retail store in Beijing Monday, Jan. 11, 1999. The store, located in a five-star hotel, is the first of 10 outlets planned for the Chinese capital in the next 18 months, with more in other major cities. China is the ninth market in Asia where the Seattle coffee company has opened stores
19991999
Beijing1ª Tienda en China
A protestor climbs through the window of a downtown Seattle Starbucks Coffee shop after smashing the window with the garbage can lying on the sidewalk as WTO protests continued to clog city streets and cripple the conference Tuesday afternoon Nov. 30, 1999
19991999
SeattleProtestas en la cumbrede la Organización Mundialde Comercio (OMC)
Tazo Quality Assurance employee Anthony Tellin prepares to taste Passion tea in Tazo's tasting lab in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, March 6, 2001. In 1999, Starbucks acquired Tazo for $9.1 million. Since then, it has supplied Starbucks coffeehouses with its teas, standing on the chain's shoulders to introduce people to one of the world's oldest drinks.
19991999
PortlandAdquiere TazoProductora de Té
20002000
Beijing
Shanghai
Tokyo
Just four years after opening its first overseas shop in Tokyo, the Seattle-based American coffee chain now has more than 250 stores in 10 Asian countries and is planning to more than double that by 2003.
Más de 250tiendas en Asiaen 10 países
A worker cleans the window of a Starbucks coffee shop in Beijing Wednesday November 1, 2000. The U.S. based company has opened more than a dozen stores in Beijing, where residents more used to drinking tea have developed a taste for coffee.
20002000
BeijingMás de 12 tiendas
A tray with Starbucks coffee and cups are being carried at the first coffeehouse in Continental Europe of U.S. Starbucks Coffee Co. that opened Wednesday, March 7, 2001 in Zurich, Switzerland. After perfecting its overseas technique in Asia, the Middle East and the U.K., the Seattle specialty coffee retailer will launch its European assault from a beachhead in Zurich.
20012001
ZurichDespués de Asia,Medio Oriente y Reino Unido, se inicia laconquista de Europa
Starbucks Coffee Co. staffs are busy at the opening of the Seattle-based coffee-chain giant's 208th shop in Japan, in Tokyo Tuesday, March 13, 2001. Since opening its first store here in August, 1996, Starbucks has built its brand image without costly advertising, shattering another stereotype about trend-setting in Japan.
20012001
TokyoTienda No. 208en Japónen 6 años
Michael Shank, of Seattle, holds a protest sign outside a Starbucks coffee shop in Seattle, Monday, June 25, 2001, while protesting against the bovine growth hormone (rBST) and other genetically engineered ingredients. The Organic Consumer Association, despite the coffee retailer's previous pledge to meet many of the group's demands, wants Starbucks to stop using milk and other foods with genetically modified ingredients. Starbucks has made clear it agrees with the OCA on many issues. It plans to offer milk free of genetic tinkering at its more than 2,700 U.S. stores by the end of July.
20012001
SeattleOrganic Consumer Association protesta el usode leche con ingredientes genéticamente modificados
An unidentified Saudi customer sits outside a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Feb. 12, 2002. In conservative Saudi Arabia, the Starbucks logo is usually seen without the siren whose long hair covers her breasts that is familiar to coffee-drinkers around the world. In business and politics, delicate revisions have been needed to overcome the many differences between the Islamic monarchy and the secular, liberal democracy of the United States.
20022002
RiyadhLogotipo modificado
Starbuck's customers play the latest music CDs at a kiosk installed in the University Village store in Seattle, Thursday, May 23, 2002. The company is tailoring its product line to match the lifestyles of customers who want to relax. Along with its extensive line of coffee mugs, pots and beans; the coffee company is expanding its line of games and CDs.
20022002
SeattleNueva línea de juegos y CDs
Nineteen year old German waitress Meike Haspel from Berlin smiles as she serves coffee at the first Starbucks coffee house in Germany in the capital Berlin Friday, May 24, 2002. Starbucks Coffee International , the world's leading speciality coffee producer and dealer and "Karstadt", Europe's leading department store, agreed on a joint venture for the federal republic in October 2001.
20022002
BerlinPrimera tienda en Alemania
Work continues on the exterior of Starbucks Coffee in preparation for opening in San Juan, Puerto Rico Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2002. The Old San Juan store will open Sept. 7 with others to follow in Puerto Rico and Mexico. This will be the Seattle-based coffee giant's first chain of stores in Latin America.
20022002
San JuanPrimera tienda en Latino América
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, center, leaves the newly built Starbucks in Mexico City on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2002. The store will open its door to the public Friday. At left is Starbuck's president for Mexico, Alberto Torrado. The sign on the right reads: "Here you can find an old friend or a new one."
20022002
México D.F.Primera tienda en México
Chinese walk a hallway above a McDonalds restaurant and Starbucks Coffee outlet side-by-side in Beijing Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003. China is promising more opportunities for foreign investors and more access for Chinese consumers to foreign goods under its 14-month-old membership in the free-trading World Trade Organization.
20032003
BeijingIncremento de inversiónextranjera en China unaño después de ingresara la OMC
A server hands a coffee to a customer at a Starbucks in Lima, Peru on Tuesday, Aug.19, 2003. Starbucks Coffee International, a unit of Starbucks Coffee Co. (SBUX), opened its first store in South America in Peru on Tuesday, with plans to open another in Chile shortly.
20032003
LimaPrimera tienda en Sur América
The West Coast's first McCafe in Mountain View, Calif., is shown Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003, during its grand opening. The McDonald's hamburger franchise will start peddling delicacies such as skinny double mocas and roasted beef with balsamic vinegar on foccacia as it attempts to steal profits from Starbucks, Peet's Coffee & Tea and other upscale chains.
20032003
Mountain ViewReacción de McDonald’sPrimera tienda McCafé
Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe, right, serves coffee during the inauguration of a new Juan Valdez coffee shop in Bogota, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003. The Colombian Coffee Federation, which represents more than half a million coffee growers, inaugurated its flagship coffee shop with plans to open 10 others in the United States and elsewhere to compete with the likes of Starbucks. The shops are a part of the federation's efforts to alleviate the suffering of coffee farmers devastated by a precipitous collapse in global coffee prices, forcing many to turn to the cultivation of illicit crops for survival.
20032003
BogotáPrimera tienda Juan Valdez
Parisians peek into the new Starbucks coffee store after its official inauguration on Opera avenue in Paris Thursday, Jan. 15, 2004. The store, the first ever in France, will open to the public on Friday, while about ten are planned for the French capital over the next year.
20042004
ParísPrimera tienda en Francia
20042004
Customers David Stugart, 65, bottom, and Michael Keigley, top, 32, both of Seattle select songs for their CD's as Starbucks Coffee Company unveiled the first Hear Music media bar Monday Oct. 18, 2004. The new service allows customers to burn personalized CD from a vast library of songs. Forty-five Starbucks retail locations will offer this new music service in the first phase of a multi-phased national roll-out.
SeattlePrimer “Hear Music” Bar de música conCDs a la medida
A Chinese tourist takes a break in front of a Starbucks coffee shop in Shanghai, China, in this July 15, 2002 photo. Starbucks is suing a competitor in Shanghai over use of their shared Chinese name, the company said Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004 - the latest in a growing number of copyright suits involving foreign firms in China. Both companies use the same three Chinese characters in their names _ ``Xingbake.'' In Chinese, ``xing'' means ``star'' and ``bake'' (bah-kuh) is a phonetic rendition of ``-bucks.''
20042004
ChinaConflictos por nombre chino:XinbakeXing = star Bake = bucks
20042004
A worker cleans the windows of a Starsbuck coffee outlet in Qingdao, in east China's Shandong province Tuesday, June 22, 2004. The use of brand names similar to those of famous foreign brands is common throughout China. Lax laws and poor enforcement make it difficult for foreign companies to combat the trend, though Seattle-based Starbucks Corp. has taken legal action against at least one Chinese company in an effort to protect its name.
ChinaAcciones legales por imitaciones
20042004
New York City police officers, equipped with plastic handcuffs, line up in from of a Starbucks to keep protestors away from the coffee shop in New York on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2004. Several hundred protestors marched to different Starbucks chains to express their opinion of disapproval for the business practices of Starbucks and the upcoming Republican National Convention, which will be held in New York.
Nueva YorkConvención PartidoRepublicanoProtección policial
Peter Torrebiarte, general manager of Starbucks Coffee in Costa Rica, looks at the characteristics of a coffee plant on the Juan Vinas Coffee Plantation near Juan Vinas, Costa Rica, Wednesday, April 14, 2004.
20042004
Costa RicaPlantaciones propiasC.A.F.ECoffee and Farmer Equity
20052005
Workers select coffee beans at the processing plant of the Esperanza Coffee Group in Matagalpa, 133km (82 miles) north of Managua, Nicaragua, Monday, Jan. 17, 2005. The Starbucks Coffee Company representatives are visiting Nicaragua to meet with national producers of coffee, and will buy approximately 70,000 quintals of Nicaraguan coffee.
NicaraguaNegociaciones decompra de café
20052005
A customer is handed a coffee drink at a drivethru window at a Starbucks, Dec. 12, 2005, in Seattle. The world's largest specialty coffee chain once shunned the drivethru concept, fearing it might alienate customers who like to come inside and sip their lattes while listening to music in cozy chairs. Eventually, it got hard to ignore coffee lovers' demand for a quick java fix without leaving the warmth of their driver's seats.
SeattlePrimer “Drive-thru”
20052005
Dunkin' Donuts employee Khari Janey works the register at a Boston branch of Dunkin' Donuts, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2005. The 55-year-old franchise chain is trying to hold onto its core customers while winning over some of the Starbucks crowd.
Dunkin’ DonutsIncursión en el mercadode cafés especiales
Starbucks breakfast sandwiches are displayed Feb. 22, 2006, at a Starbucks Corp. store in Seattle. As McDonald's Corp. and Burger King Corp. begin to offer premium coffee Starbucks is more than doubling the number of stores nationwide that sell hot breakfast sandwiches.
20062006
SeattleStarbucks inicia la ventade Sandwiches calientespara el Desayuno
Gregg Clark, director of plant operations for Starbucks Corp.'s massive roasting plant in Kent, Wash., walks Monday, Aug. 7, 2006 through an area of the plant used for storing green coffee prior to roasting
20062006
Kent, Wa.Visita a la plantaRecepción de los granos
Almost eerily and without a worker in sight, a coffee roaster at Starbucks Corp.'s massive roasting plant in Kent, Wash. empties a batch of beans into the cooling tray Monday, Aug. 7, 2006.
20062006
Kent, Wa.Visita a la plantaTostadora de CaféAutomatización
Freshly-roasted coffee is stirred in a cooling tray at Starbucks Corp.'s massive roasting plant in Kent, Wash. Monday, Aug. 7, 2006.
20062006
Kent, Wa.Visita a la plantaEnfriamiento delos granos reciéntostados
An automated machine fills coffee bags with ground coffee Monday, Aug. 7, 2006. In contrast to many tiny independent roasters in Seattle, where bags are filled by hand, Starbucks relies on automation.
20062006
Kent, Wa.Visita a la plantaEmpaqueautomatizado
Workers at right folds boxes that will hold bags of freshly ground coffee produced at Starbucks Corp.'s massive roasting plant in Kent, Wash. Monday, Aug. 7, 2006. As other towns worry that Starbucks will run their local coffeeshops out of business, the owners of several of Seattle's most beloved independent coffee houses say they have found success in the shadow of Starbucks by accentuating the benefits of staying small.
20062006
Kent, Wa.Visita a la plantaEmpaque final y distribución
Jud Hendricks, left, greets Jerry Pierce, as they sit outside Caffe Ladro in Seattle Tuesday Aug. 1, 2006. Both are regulars at the independent coffee shop, which is located just down the street from a Starbucks. Although Seattle is the headquarters for corporate coffee giant Starbucks Corp., local independents are proving it's possible to survive and even thrive in the shadow of their much larger competitor.
20062006
Seattle, Wa.Competidorespequeños a la sombra de Starbucks
Daniel Gross poses for a portrait outside a Starbucks coffee shop in the Lower Manhattan, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006, in New York. Starbucks Corp. has fired the co-founder of a union claiming to represent employees at six of its Manhattan coffee houses. Gross, a barista and organizer for IWW Starbucks Workers Union, a branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, said Monday that he is challenging his termination, which followed a company investigation into an allegation that he made a threatening remark to a district manager at a recent union rally.
20062006
Nueva YorkBrotes de sindicalismo
20062006
A bag of Starbucks Corp.'s new "Black Apron" specialty coffee, Rwanda Blue Bourbon, is shown with its decorative packaging Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006 in Seattle. Starbucks, the world's largest specialty coffee retailer, announced Tuesday that it will start selling its first Rwandan-grown coffee in its North American stores starting March 13.
SeattleIntroducción de caféproveniente de Ruanda
20062006
People pass by during the opening ceremony of the first Starbucks store in Brazil, in Sao Paulo, on Thursday, Nov. 30 , 2006.
Sao PauloPrimera tiendaen Brasil
20072007
15760 Tiendas en el Mundo3320Nuevas tiendas en 20079 Tiendas diarias
Chinese passers-by walk past a Starbucks Coffee cafe in Shanghai 29 March 2007. Starbucks Corp., the biggest coffee-shop chain in the world, said it planned to source coffee from China for the first time as it expands in a country with more than 5,000 years of tea-drinking culture. Starbucks has been working with coffee farmers in southwest Chinas Yunnan province to help them meet sourcing standards and has sent coffee shipments to the United States for testing. Starbucks also plans to build a roasting plant in China, where its sales are outpacing market growth as Chinas coffee consumption is increasing 20 to 25 percent each year.
20072007
ShanghaiCultivos de café en ChinaProvincia de YunnanPlanta tostadoraConsumo de café +20 a 25%cada año en China
Shareholders fill McCaw Hall as they listen to a speaker at the annual Starbucks Corp. shareholders meeting, Wednesday, March 21, 2007, in Seattle.
20072007
SeattleReunión anual de accionistas
A handful of protesters picket before the annual Starbucks Corp. shareholders meeting, Wednesday, March 21, 2007, in Seattle. The small group of protesters criticized the company's stance on unions and its resistance of Ethiopia's attempts to trademark some bean names.
20072007
SeattleReunión anual de accionistas
Starbucks Corp. chairman Howard Schultz, right, gives a pat to president and CEO Jim Donald as Donald is introduced before addressing the annual shareholders meeting in Seattle in this March 21, 2007.
20072007
SeattleReunión anual de accionistasCEO:Jim Donalddesde 2005
Starbucks Corp. chairman Howard Schultz waves goodbye to singer Paul McCartney as McCartney finishes an appearance via a video feed from London, during the Starbucks Corp. annual shareholders meeting, in this March 21, 2007, file photo, in Seattle. McCartney was introduced as the first artist signed to Starbucks new record label.
20072007
SeattleReunión anual de accionistas
20072007
A barista heads out the door of a Starbucks coffee shop and past a poster advertising the upcoming release of Paul McCartney's new recording, Monday, June 4, 2007, in Seattle. Caffeine junkies who go to Starbucks for their daily fix will get a nonstop dose of McCartney's "Memory Almost Full" on Tuesday, June 5, 2007, as the coffee company's new record label releases its first CD. Starbucks Corp. estimates that some 6 million people will be among the first to hear the new album as they line up for their lattes in more than 10,000 stores in 29 countries, where it will be playing on continuous loop throughout the day.
SeattleLanzamiento 1º album“Hear Music Records”Paul McCartney
20072007
Packets of Starbucks Corp.'s new line of "drinking chocolate" are shown Monday, Aug. 13, 2007. The drink -- to be initially sold in grocery and other food stores but not in Starbucks' traditional coffee houses -- is made at home on the stove or in the microwave by combining cubes of chocolate with milk.
SeattleLanzamiento Chocolate en cubos
20072007
Anthony Carroll, manager of green coffee quality at Starbucks Corp., shows a group of food-industry writers and publicists the proper way to "slurp" coffee Monday,Aug. 13, 2007 during a "cupping workshop" given during a two-day "Starbucks Scholars". "Cupping," is the specialized process of tasting various blends and roasts of coffee.
SeattleSeminario de capacitaciónpara medios“Starbucks Scholars”
Major Cohen, a coffee and tea education specialist at Starbucks Corp., pours boiling water into cups of different types of Starbucks coffee grounds Monday,Aug. 13, 2007 in preparation for a "cupping workshop".
20072007
SeattleSeminario de capacitaciónpara medios“Starbucks Scholars”
20072007
Keith Hutjens, director of tea procurement with Tazo Tea conducts a tea tasting Monday, Aug. 13, 2007 during a two-day "Starbucks Scholars" media seminar at Starbucks Corp. headquarters in Seattle. Tazo is owned by Starbucks Corp.
SeattleSeminario de capacitaciónpara medios“Starbucks Scholars”
20072007
Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz, left, greets a group of apron-clad food-industry writers and publicists taking part in a "cupping workshop" Monday,Aug. 13, 2007 during a two-day "Starbucks Scholars" media seminar at Starbucks Corp. headquarters in Seattle.
SeattleSeminario de capacitaciónpara medios“Starbucks Scholars”
20072007
Russian-style matryoshka coffee mugs on sale in Russia's first Starbucks Coffee Shop on opening day at the Mega shopping mall in Khimki, just north of Moscow, Russia on September 6, 2007
MoscúPrimera tienda en Rusia
A person holds a Starbucks Coffee card Wednesday, Nov. 31, 2007 in Pennington, N.J. Starbucks Corp. releases first-quarter earnings after the bell.
20072007
Starbucks Card160 millones de tarjetas
20072007
In this image provided by Starbucks Corp., a "Song of the Day" card featuring acoustic singer KT Tunstall is shown. Beginning Oct. 2, 2007, Starbucks plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all its domestic coffee houses to promote a new wireless iTunes music service about to debut in select markets through a partnership with Apple Inc. Baristas in the company's more than 10,000 U.S. stores will hand out 1.5 million "Song of the Day" cards each day, which can be redeemed on Apple's online music store.
“Song of the Day”Convenio con Apple iTunes1,5 millones de tarjetas/día50 millones de canciones
20082008
Krista Miller sips a cappuccino at a Starbucks coffee shop in Seattle Friday, Jan. 25, 2008. It's been almost a year since Chairman Howard Schultz' bitterly candid memo bemoaning "the watering down of the Starbucks experience" landed with a thud on the desks of the coffee chain's top executives. Mincing no words, he said the company's unbridled growth had sapped the soul out of its stores and sounded a rallying cry to shift the focus back onto the customer.
Starbucks on Monday, Jan. 7, 2008 announced that it is firing Jim Donald and giving the CEO job back to Schultz.
Schultz: “Se está aguando laexperiencia Starbucks”
A Starbucks customer drinks coffee in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has announced the closure, starting at 5:30 p.m. local time, to energize 135,000 employees. Starbucks' 7,100 stores across America will participate in the brief barista re-education.
20082008
Jornada de Reeducación135.000 empleados7.100 tiendas en USACierre simultáneo
20082008
Starbucks store manager Justin Chapple watches a message from CEO Howard Schultz at a Starbucks in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. Nearly 7,100 company-operated Starbucks stores across the U.S., all except the licensed shops in supermarkets, airports, malls, hotels and the like, were to close at 5:30 p.m. local time so some 135,000 employees could go through about three hours of training.
Jornada de Reeducación135.000 empleados7.100 tiendas en USACierre simultáneo
20082008
Stephanie Axelrod works on her laptop Monday, Feb. 11, 2008, at a Starbucks Corp. store near the University of Washington in Seattle. Starbucks and AT&T Inc. will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in most of the international coffee retailer's U.S. shops, beginning this spring.
SeattleConvenio con AT&TWiFi en las tiendasinternacionales
20082008
Reunión anual de accionistas2008
Starbucks Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Howard Schultz speaks in front of a graph charting the price of Starbucks stock Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Seattle. Starbucks' stock has been falling steadily for more than a year, losing more than half its value since late 2006, when it was trading at close to $40 a share.
20082008
Reunión anual de accionistas2008
The newly designed Starbucks cup is seen Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at a Starbucks location in Alameda, Calif. Starbucks Corp. said Wednesday its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 28 percent as U.S. consumers responded to rising food and gas prices by making fewer latte runs. For the quarter ended March 30, Starbucks' net income sank to $108.7 million, or 15 cents per share, from $150.8 million, or 19 cents a share in the same period last year.
20082008
Resultados 1º TrimestreUtilidades ↓28%$150 M (Q1/07) $108 M (Q1/08)
100 tiendas cerradas600 despidos
Starbucks Corp. Chief Technology Officer Chris Bruzzo holds hand-written comment cards as he stands in front of a live screen of the new Web site Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at Starbucks' annual shareholders meeting in Seattle. Coffee-obsessed consumers started chiming in as soon as the Web site inviting customers to pitch ideas for reviving its struggling U.S. business went live
20082008
Buscando nuevas ideas:www.mystarbucksidea.com
20082008
Starbucks se retira delnegocio de la música
Emmylou Harris performs for a crowd gathered in Seattle, Tuesday, March 30, 2004, for the Starbucks 12th Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The Seattle based company is recognized as a global brand of coffee and plans to venture into music stores selling custom made cds on site. Harris helped launch the HEAR MUSIC aspect of Starbuck's business projects.
20082008
Starbucks recently purchased Coffee Equipment, a Seattle company that makes the Clover machine. Some Starbucks stores, like this one in Seattle, now use the Clover.
Starbucks adquiereCoffee Equipment fabricante de las cafeteras Clover
20082008
"This is the first time our business is under pressure - it's a character test. But it's not about the economy. We don't want to use that as an excuse. And it's not about the competition. Don't believe the media hype. There's no coffee war going on. This is about us. We somehow evolved from a culture of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation to a culture of, in a way, mediocrity and bureaucracy."
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