Starbucks Reports Samples For Students

I had an interview with Pedro Garcia who is the financial manager of Starbucks Company. Starbucks is an organization that deals in coffee, snacks, and espresso drinks. As such, the financial manager of Starbucks has several responsibilities to ensure that the company’s operations run smoothly. The manager has a duty to manage the company’s budgets in order to ensure that the company operates within the finances allocated for a variety of expenses within the company. Garcia explained that managing budgets involves monitoring the company’s expenses to ensure that Starbucks’ actual expenses do not exceed the standard costs set ...

Starbucks Corporation is one of the most successful and most admired coffee companies globally and, operates a chain of coffee houses across the United States and, globally. Its headquarters is in Seattle, Washington DC. It began with a single store in 1971 as a retailer and, a roster of ground coffee and whole bean. Currently, it boasts of over 19000 retail stores in more than 60 countries and, has more than 30 different brands of coffee. It also serves iced beverages and related products.
Globally, Starbucks is one of the leading firms in utilization of the internet to market its products and, ...

The reason for difference in Net Profit from Operations in the Income Statement and Cash Flow from Operations in Cash Flow Statement is because, both the financial statement follows different accounting principle. While the Net Income of the company is calculated by following accrual basis of accounting, the CFO is calculated by strictly following cash basis of accounting. In other words, if the revenue from a unit sold during December is expected to be received in January, the income statement will record revenue in December itself while no such entry would be posted in Cash flow from Operations. Hence, Income ...

International Marketing

International Marketing

This paper presents an analysis of international marketing scenario taking the case of a multinational firm; Starbucks. It discusses various elements that relate to international business for a company such as Starbucks.

Starbuck’s Clientele and Positioning Strategy

The Starbucks Corporation is a Seattle, Washington-based coffee company. It specializes in purchasing and selling of whole bean specialty coffee drinks through an international chain of retail outlets. The firm is well known in North America for its coffeehouses where people come to purchase beverages and food items including ground and bean coffee varieties. The company has become synonymous with Americans conceptualization of coffee products a factor that has ...

Introduction

Starbucks initiated as a gourmet coffee roasting company that started in Seattle over forty years ago. The market at that time had been dominated by the brands that were marketed in the supermarkets that include Maxwell House and Folgers. At the time that Starbucks started its operations, the coffee consumption on a per capita basis was declining. In the decades of the 1980s and the 1990s, the higher quality coffee beans and the specialty coffee began to develop a niche of loyal followers. Starbucks was purchased by Howard Schultz in 1987. Schultz envisioned creating a coffee culture that was similar to the coffee ...

Introduction

The consumer is the main actor in the market. Therefore the purchasing behavior of the consumer should be given special attention. The term of “consumer behavior” can be defined as behavior exhibited by buyers in the search, selection, purchase, use, evaluation and utilization of products, services and ideas that can satisfy the customers’ needs. Consumer behavior is a complex and multifaceted process and to study it, it is necessary to use an interdisciplinary approach, namely techniques and methods used in psychology and sociology.
Cultural level factors have the greatest impact on consumer behavior. Growing up in the community, the ...

This report aims at identifying and elaborating the strategies and issues related to Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) and Starbucks Global Consumers Products Group in their endeavor to form a relationship between them.

Background

The Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Starbucks Global Consumers Products Groups are two different companies with the objective of forming a strategic relationship to tap the market. The two companies aim at manufacturing, marketing, distributing and selling of the Tazotea K-cup portion packages and Starbucks packs that are essential in the running of the Keurig Single cup brewing system. Ideally, the Keurig means a Dutch word for success. It ...

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Introduction:

Our analysis of a company listed on US Stock Exchange is based on Starbucks Corporation, while for with the competitor within same industry, we shall be analyzing financial statements of Dunkin Donuts.

Starbucks Corporation is a leading marketer and retailer of coffee, having its outlets in 60 countries around the world. The stock of the company is listed on NASDAQ Stock Exchange with the tick symbol of ‘’SBUX’’. Apart from selling coffee, the company is also involved in tea, beverages and variety of fresh food items. Today, Starbucks is a leading and most recognized coffee brand in the ...

Brand Implementation

Starbucks Brand Implementation3
Starbucks Rebranding.4
Deconstruction of Starbucks logo4
Visual Material and Analysis..5

Understanding the logo and marketing6

Chosen Consultancy Firm6
Cost of Rebranding and Timeline6
Starbucks Brand Strategy7
Value Proposition7
Functional Benefits.8
Visual and Emotional Benefits of Starbucks..9

Starbucks Evolution10

Competitors’ Logo.11

References.12

Starbucks Brand Implementation
Adubato (2011, p.110) stated that the original chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks was Howard Schultz, and in his book, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, he stated that the goal of the management then was to build a great company, which stood for ...

Introduction

Ethical policies and compliance is an important aspect that should be met by all companies. Ethics is used to refer to the measure of how right or wrong an act is, basing on the available standards and guidelines. An organization seeks to protect the company, customers, staff and the key stakeholders from any kind of lie that they may be lured into. This serves to keep the company’s reputation, enhance reliability from the customers and avoid risks that may be associated with the crime committed(Murphy, 1988). Ethical issues are, therefore, regarded highly and given lots of attention. ...

Introduction

The role of service marketing has become highly important in any businesses. Quality service helps the organization to gain competitive advantage and differentiate their offerings with the competitors (Lovelock, 2011). This report analyzes the services that I have encountered in one of the leading coffee shops, Starbucks. The report explains my personal experience of visiting the coffee shop and uses the three stage model of service consumption to analyze the quality of service. The report also presents the perceived risks that have been involved while consuming the service and how I managed these risks.
three-stage model of service ...

Introduction

Starbucks is a leader in specialty coffee global business. It has more than 18,000 coffee shops worldwide. The Company is operating in 60 countries. Starbucks offers a number of products including ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee, tea, food items, roasted beans, and coffee accessories. The Company owns such brands as Torrefazione Italia and Seattle's Best Coffee (Starbucks, 2012) (Starbucks, 2012).
In this paper the issues of Starbucks strategy in UK will be discussed. At the present time, Starbucks has 700 stores in the UK. Starbucks has been switching to the organic growth strategy as a part of franchise model.

Brief Overview of the Company

Starbucks Company was ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Starbucks, a premium coffee house, is recognized as the leader in its category in many aspects such as marketing strategy, quality of services and most importantly from financial perspective. Exploring certain objectives of the financial perspectives has been adopted as the objective of this report.
Starbucks with listed symbol of SBUX on Nasdeq 100 is categorized within Specialty Eateries of the service sector on finance section of yahoo. Starbuck is the leader (on many aspects within its sector) mainly with respect to market capitalization of $. 38.01 Bn (88%) out of $. 43.0 Bn of the industry (Yahoo! b, 2012). The other ...

Starbucks has over the years expanded into 55 different countries and territories across the world, with upwards of 8033 and 8892 direct and franchised outlets manned by upwards of 149,000 employees (MarketLine, 2011, P. 4). The company sternly controls and licenses franchises across the world, stores that sell not only its espresso coffee, but tea, beverages and baked foods. With a market administratively divided into the United States, Internal, Global Consumer Markets and other regions, Starbucks major products include VIA Ready Brew, Starbucks, Tazo Tea and Seattle’s Best Coffee. It posted annual revenues of more than $11,701.9 ...

Starbucks is currently one of the most successful companies worldwide. With over 16,850 shops in 40 countries and raking in revenues of $10.7 billion, it is clear that Starbucks is a coffee retail magnate. For fourteen straight years, they’ve maintained a 5% same-store sales growth. (Lepore, 2011). However, one does not climb to such great lengths without a strategic industrial plan. Such success is not a product of circumstance, but of in depth analysis and planning. This paper aims to thoroughly study Starbucks’s business plans through a strategic analysis model through its five components: industry ...

The University

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References 12

Appendix A . 13
1.0 Starbucks at 20 Percent Net Revenue Growth
1.1 Net Revenue Growth of 20 Percent
1.1.1 Current State
Statista (2016) ranked Starbucks as the 2015 top leading coffeehouse chain globally in terms of revenue with its revenue of $21.095 billion, followed far behind by Costa Coffee ($1.809 billion) and McCafe ($1.462 billion). It also has the largest store chain of 23,043 stores worldwide. As of fiscal year 2015, Starbucks had a total number of 23,043 stores globally, 12,235 (53%) of which are company-operated stores and 10,808 (47%) are ...

There have been a number of different coffee destinations to go to over the years, but there may hardly be few who have come close to competing with Starbucks. This has been because of the implementation of the company policies which have focused on the needs and requests of the consumer over the years. Many people still go to the coffee place not because their recipe for the coffee is out of the world but because the staff that interacts with the customer is quite hospitable towards that most important segment of the business. Here, we are going to ...

Introduction

Starbuck was established in 191 with the first store opening in Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington by three partners Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegal and Gordon Bowker. The main focus of the trio was to sell coffee beans and equipment. During the first year of their operations they purchased coffee beans from retailers. They started buying coffee beans directly from the farmers the subsequent years. Howard Schultz joined the company in 1983 and proposed that the company should also sell espresso drinks in addition to coffee beans. This ideas was not accepted by the other partners because it could ...

Starbucks is a very well-known American company that has the vision to become “a premier purveyor of the finest coffee in the world while maintaining the uncompromising principles” (Gregory). The company’s mission is “to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time” (Starbuck website). In order be able to follow this mission, Starbucks relies on the following values: creating “a culture of warmth”, looking for the new ways to grow the company, be transparent and act with dignity, and be accountable (Starbucks website).
The company depends on its suppliers that ...

Introduction

Today, social media is not only a platform for people to connect with their friends and share opinions but also a solid marketing and information collection tool. The world’s largest social media networks are recording huge amounts of data never analyzed before, which could be used to reveal important information about different consumers. This includes information such as how people arrive at buying decisions as well as what goods or services they are likely to require in the future. This shows that social media can be leveraged to drive business results. Companies which employ social media in their marketing mix ...

Integrating a Corporate Social Responsibility for Starbucks

Tilt (2016) explains that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) involves sustainable management and conduct of a business where it is ethical and socially acceptable, economically supportive and profitable. It is an umbrella concept which encompasses environmental and stakeholder management by upholding good societal performance. For Starbucks to grow into a sustainable organization, a change initiative should be undertaken against its traditional management approach. The organization needs to embrace CSR for it to become a sustainable organization. According to Tilt (2016), there are, however, intra-organization challenges which significantly affect the implementation of the change initiative. To address this issue and the ...

Introduction

The strategy is the purpose and direction an organization takes to get to its future and achieve long-term goals. It involves motivating trustees in the organization to engage meaningfully with the external environment. The organization, thus, matches its diverse capabilities with the needs of the stakeholders. An organization and in this case the MacDonald has a strategy that determines how the business relates to the outside world. It also determines how the organization will take every opportunity to innovate, improvise as well as make improvements. MacDonald should have a strategy that concentrates on priorities, making sure that the organization’ ...

The success of any form or organization is largely pegged on the leaders that head the organization. The success or failure of an organization reflects the leadership of the leader. However, what defines a good leader is one of the eternal questions that does not have a clear-cut answer. However, it is clear that as technologies change, processes evolve and operating environment change, demographics and trends shift, leadership traits that define success change. This paper seeks to evaluate the leadership style of two leaders Howard Schultz (Starbucks CEO) and Jack Dorsey (Twitter CEO).
Howard Schultz is the current CEO ...

Executive Summary

British Petroleum (BP) has to design and implement a change management program with immediate effect. This is to convince the workforce that the proposed massive job cut is vital for the survival of the organization. As part of this program, the BP management has to make some key changes to its HR policies and practices. The organization should rely specifically on mobile-based e-learning platforms and social media learning in order to promote HR training and development. In addition, the company may use tools such as recognition, perks, and gifting for rewarding employees who go beyond their responsibilities. Finally, the ...

History and Background of the company

Caribou Coffee Company is the second largest company in the United States (Press Release, 2013), that sells coffee, bakery items and tea in about 415 coffeehouses that are owned by the company. The products are sold in approximately 40 states and also in the District of Columbia, and in the 126 franchises located at different places worldwide. The Caribou Coffee Company was founded in the year 1992, the founder of company is John Puckett, who was a management consultant in the Bain & Company-a Boston based company. He has provided assistance to the other companies for the development of strategies and ...

Part 1

The company I have chosen is Starbucks. Using three bonds; I calculated the cost of debt by taking average of the coupon of the three bonds and then adding the tax effect. The cost of debt came out to 2.40%.
The company does not have any preferred stock in its capital structure. For calculating the cost of equity, I have used three methods, the risk premium method, the dividend discount model and the CAPM equation.
Risk Premium approach involves adding an equity risk premium to the bond yield (Boundless). The bond yield was calculated by taking the average of ...

Executive Summary

Over the past few decades, multinational businesses have emerged and have operations in vast geographical locations. Several business corporations have taken advantage of globalization and open business environments to do global business. China and the rest of emerging Asian ‘tiger’ economies present excellent business locations for much multinationals. As these businesses seek massive expansion, several factors come into play. Factor such as government regulation, stiff competition, different marketing strategies, political influences, differentiated human resource management strategies, incoherent consumer behavior and culture have a huge bearing on international expansion . The Coffee Connoisseur (TCC) is a specialized gourmet beverages and foods outlet with a ...

Abstract

Digital media have influenced the way marketing by providing a range of channels through which potential customers can be reached. In the 21st century, digital media such as social networking sites have significantly influenced marketing by allowing marketers to interact with potential customers unlike in traditional media where companies did not get feedback or reviews on their products. Internet access through mobile phones has increased user activity in the online community, and this has caused marketers to increase advertising through the various websites. New forms of digital media like interactive television are likely to have an immense impact in the ...

Investment Strategy

Being at the young age of my career and with the capacity to bear the risk, my investment strategy will be that of a moderately aggressive investor. As part of this investment strategy, I will be seeking long-term capital appreciation through mix of equity investments, few fixed income instruments and cash reserves, where the target return will be 10-12% on annual basis, while I do not have specific preference for dividend payment. Most important, despite of my preference for high return from my portfolio, I will refrain from investing in any penny stock. However, amid bullish run of the US ...

Portfolio Management

Part 1)
Compare your portfolio’s return over the investment period with the Market Portfolio. Did you outperform the Market Portfolio? What if you take the CAPM result into account? Show all calculations used. What might be some reasons your portfolio either outperformed or underperformed vis á vis the Market Portfolio?

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Portfolio Construction and outcome
The portfolio was constructed using three stocks from different industries where the objective was to analyze their performance in comparison to the market index, S&P 500. The three stocks selected by us were Apple Inc., Starbucks and Tesla Motors with weights allocated as ...

Investment Appraisal

Investment Appraisal
This report presents the critical investment appraisal of the new coffee shop venture to be initiated by Tesco Ltd. The report includes a thorough analysis of the café market and industry and also attempts to evaluate the target market and market segmentation. Towards the end, the report also includes the appraisal of the investment and financial analysis of the five-year forecast of the venture.

The British coffee market has grown considerably in the past few years that is evident from the fact that approximately $8 billion was spent by Britons in coffee shops last year. In 2015, ...

Internal Analysis of McDonald’s Corp.

Introduction
McDonald’s is the biggest chain of hamburger fasts food cafes around the world with over 50 million consumers. The corporation was started in 1940 by two brothers in San Bernardino, California (McDonald’s. com, 2016). Today, McDonald's is the leader in global food service retail with around 35,000 locations in more than 100 nations. However, most of its worldwide restaurants are owned and operated by independent local business people. Additionally, the alignment strength in McDonald’s is its franchisees and suppliers. This system has been the reason for the long-term success of the corporation. In the ...

Introduction

The objective of this report is advise and recommend whether Restaurant Brand New Zealand Limited or Xero Limited is the better company to work for in relation to long-term employment. As companies that have the capacity to provide their employees with stable, long-term employment usually show strong growth and are thriving economically in their chosen market. This report is also based on the financial information provided by the NZX Company Research database from the past three years and articles sourced from NEWZTEXT in order to present a comprehensive view of how each company is performing in the current environment.

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Abstract

It is evident that for businesses, organizational performance is of vital importance in order to be able to achieve organizational objectives and goals as outlined in a firm’s mission statement. As such assessing the ability to gauge the level of organizational performance, is a key component of ‘Strategic Management’. So the bigger organizational picture, is composed of the ‘broader’ aspects, related to the overall sense of the organizations direction and purpose, in being able to achieve its aspirations and desired goals and objectives.
While a vision, describes what an organization aspires to be an organizations mission, is grounded ...

Portfolio Summary

Executive Summary:
The portfolio which consists of twenty (20) stocks from varied industries has been benchmarked against S& P500 index on weekly basis from 8-4-2014 to 29-5-2014. During the period of our analysis, while the S&P 500 index has earned return in the range of -1.43% to 0.43%, the portfolio performance on the other hand has been bumpy. For Instance, in the beginning week of our investment, the portfolio earned a return of 12.37%, by the end of last week; the portfolio earned a return of -10.99%.

Management Discussion and Analysis:

The portfolio consists of twenty stocks and has been benchmarked against the S&P ...

Lessons from Personal Experiment

Executive Summary3
1.0 Introduction..4
2.0 Background..5
3.0 Methods6
4.0 Results, Analysis and Discussion.7
5.0 Conclusions..8
6.0 Recommendations8

References10

Executive Summary
The report reviews a test scenario of two Japanese inventory control system models in preparation for launch of a restaurant business venture. The Toyota Production System (TPS) and Just-In-Time (JIT) approaches to Business Process Implementation (BPI) planning of the small-medium enterprise (SME) in New Zealand is analysed in feasibility testing scenario of the two models: The Kitchen Inventory Study.
- Introduction
The report reviews a test scenario of two Japanese inventory control system models ...