Howard Schultz
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-->Howard Schultz is an American businessman and entrepreneur most widely known as chief global strategist and chairman of Starbucks. Schultz was born July 19, 1953 in Brooklyn, N.Y. . He grew up in the federally subsidized Bayview Project of Brooklyn, New York. He is the oldest child of three. He has a sister Ronnie (b. 1956) and a brother Michael (b. 1961) who live in New York. His mother lives in New Jersey and his father, whom he often speaks of in interviews, is deceased. He presently lives in Seattle with his wife and 2 children.
He became the first of his family to graduate from college when in 1975 he earned his bachelor's degree from Northern Michigan University majoring in communication. He attended college via a football scholarship, He later joined Seattle's Starbucks (1982), which sold only coffee beans at the time. Inspired by Italian espresso bars, he resolved to create a similar experience in the United States. He was rebuffed by Starbucks management at the time and Schultz responded by leaving to start his own company, Il Giornale (disambiguation) (1985). In a later twist of fate, the original Starbucks management decided to work on Peet's Coffee & Tea and sold its Starbucks unit to Schultz and Il Giornale (1987). Schultz renamed Il Giornale with the Starbucks name and aggressively expanded Starbucks's reach across the United States. It can be said that Starbucks popularized espresso drinks such as the cafe latte, and later, the frappuccino, to many Americans who had previously only ever tasted freeze-dried coffee.
Schultz co-authored a book called Pour Your Heart into It that expounds on his life journey with Starbucks. He is also the owner of the NBA's Seattle Supersonics and the WNBA's Seattle Storm, and a significant stakeholder in Jamba Juice He is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon.
| Starbucks Corporation |
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| Corporate Directors: Jim Donald | Barbara Bass | Howard Behar | Bill Bradley | Mellody Hobson | Olden Lee | Greg Maffei | Howard Schultz | James Shennan | Javier Teruel | Myron Ullman | Craig Weatherup |
| Assets & Products: Frappuccino | Hear Music | Pasqua Coffee | Seattle's Best Coffee | Tazo Tea Company | Torrefazione Italia |
| Annual Revenue: .4 billion USD ( 25% FY 2005) | Employees: 96,700 | Stock Symbols: | Website: [www.starbucks.com] |
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