Starbucks Coffee Culture

Starbucks is known for their great tasting coffee, tea, pastries, treats, sandwiches, tumblers and other miscellaneous items. Conversely, they are mostly known for their different types of coffees such as expressos and cappuccinos while providing a top of the line comfortable café experience. When companies such as Starbucks have multiple products, it sets them apart which will assist in achieving the overall financial health. Their mission is “To inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and neighborhood at a time” (Starbucks, 2018). This purpose is what Starbucks stands by in each of their

The article discusses the impact of coffee beverages such as "flat white" on the sales of global coffee company Starbucks Corp. Topics discussed include remarks of Canadian-American economist Alex Tabarrok, launch of the company's stores in Great Britain and views of company's chief strategy officer Matthew Ryan on the commitment of the company to become a leader in coffee

Their location is very important as many people would love a coffee on their way to work or library so that’s why you will most likely see a Starbucks on the corner of the street beside your workplace. Their coffee making skills has to be good because if it’s not then people aren’t going to go in just for the sweet treats. The furniture has to be fitting towards what type of business it is. Free internet is a massive plus because of business people that are sitting in or even teenagers will like to surf the web or check their emails before work.

The Industry demand has changed due to a shift in consumers’ attitudes towards healthier products. This placed Starbucks’ coffee culture at risk and threatened the company’s future. Starbucks has tailored their menu to include more organic and healthy product mixes, venturing into tea, bread and fresh juice products (Geereddy, n.d).

Businesses have been playing a crucial role in people’s lives. No matter what they go or what the occupations they are; people are drawn to get involved in businesses. However, behind the scenes of the business thriving, the environment is deteriorated each day. Many development schemes are come up with the plan related with the depletion of the environment (Shah, 2002). Because of people and environmental damages, attentions were drawn to corporations for ensuring their sustainabilities. John Elkington designed a framework called Triple Bottom Line(TBL) (cite), which allows employees or entrepreneurs to adopt it for evaluating their performances regarding three dimensions people, planet, and profit. Starbucks is one of successful corporations which uses the Triple Bottom Line. The underlying Starbucks’s policy is to "inspire and nurture the human spirit-- one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time" ( Herbeck, 2012). The statement which was previously mentioned shows that Starbucks does not solely concentrate upon their profits, but their stakeholders’ well beings and the environment as well. This firm tries to launch many campaigns based on the three factors of the Triple Bottom Line. As a result, when it comes to Triple Bottom Line framework, Starbucks was given the opportunity to appraise and monitor its operations.

Even the consumers have expressed issues. So, the company should take these into account to continue holding consumers’ trust. Some of the other environmental factors Starbucks should worry about are:  Environmental rules and regulations  Environmental disasters in countries which produce coffee beans  Global warming and other environmental issues in a global level IMPACTS OF LEGAL FACTORS ON STARBUCKS Starbucks must ensure that it does not violate any laws and regulations in the home market and countries from where they buy raw materials. It should also stay alert about introduction of caffeine production and consumption related policies and regulations by health authorities. Others factors that might affect the company are:  Introduction of stricter customs and trade regulations  Licensing regulations related to the industry. So, as recession is the most important factor, Starbucks has to lower costs and increase the value. This way it can retain its consumer base and also gain consumer

Starbucks, an American coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington, is the world largest coffee retailer chain in the world having more than 21,000 stores in 65 countries (Starbucks website, n.d.). In United States, Starbucks owned 12,973 stores (Starbucks Company Statistics, 2014), which is more than 73% of the market shares of the United States coffeehouse industry. Hence, Starbucks possesses monopoly power in the specialty coffee market. Enjoying monopoly position, Starbucks plan to completely dominate the market by eliminating competition. Starbucks engages in a range of anti-competitive activities.

PESTEL describes a framework of macro-environmental factors used in the environmental factors component of strategic management. PESTEL analysis includes some several factors: political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors. This report analyzes the factors which have main impact on Starbucks.

The first one is the coffee, as the company strives to get the best quality coffee to provide the best experience for their customers and deliver their value proposition. Indeed, to assure this high-quality Starbuck controls as much of the supply chain as possible. The company implemented a strategy that insures the same process in each of its facilities. They have a strict supplier policy and very few facilities to roast the coffee beans to be able to supervise the whole process and make sure that each bean and packaging is done the same way. This reinforces the intent on competitiveness as they have a control over their supply chain and create value throughout every step of the process. To decrease the complexity of the process, Starbucks has a set of suppliers that have specific locations to deliver their coffee beans to, allowing them to control the production. This is due to their highly-centralised processes that enables Starbucks to control their global networks. Another component of their value proposition is the service. The process of their customer service follows a pattern that is common to every Starbucks Coffee Shop in the world. This process helps them deliver their value proposition through four different and simple aspects which are to create the perfect product, to deliver this product in a short period of time, the caring product delivery and finally the adoption of effective problem-resolution procedure. As the competitive advantage of the company is to differentiate by delivering a unique customer experience by focusing on those four aspects Starbucks ensures that their process deliver their value proposition. The key aspect of their operations in store relates to personalisation and customisation of products as well

Starbucks is known for its delicious fresh brewed coffee and its dedication to employees, customers and communities. Starbucks is one of the largest companies in USA and it is based in Washington. The company keeps its customers on their toes with new products and loyal customer deals. Every year the company is introducing something new and interesting. This strategy and approach keeps the company on the top and customers coming back for more. Starbucks sells high quality food and brands for affordable prices. Recently, the company launched a wine collection in addition to the coffee. Now, customers can enjoy a coffee in the morning and a wine after work. This strategy will bring more revenue to the company and will put the Starbucks on the map with other great small shops. The brand has also positioned itself best coffee brand in the market by providing attractive store design, unique environment, elegant taste and high quality coffee beans (Kotler & Keller, 2009).

Originated in United States (US), Starbucks selected Singapore as the third international market to expand its business in 1996. It offers all-embracing products of coffee, handcrafted beverages, light food, merchandise and consumer products as well as an exclusive Starbucks experience to the customers. Starbucks Singapore prides itself on the 100th store expansion in 2014 (Priscilla, 2014). The company is staying ahead in the Singapore coffee chain industry, yet it is facing numerous emerging challenges in the global competitive environment.

It is true that the United States is the world largest economy based on GDP. It is famous for numerous huge brands in the World. For instance, in the field of technology and social networking, American Brands such as Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. always take the lead in this market. In terms of food, we can not deny the succeed of McDonald or Duckin’ Donuts. And in the coffee markets, there is a firm which changed the way Americans and people around the world view and consume coffee - Starbucks. It is no exaggeration to say that Starbucks has brought American coffee’s ubiquity and defined the American coffee value. In this case, I will analyse Starbucks’ globalization and how it adapt to other areas as a model of American coffee

For instance, Starbucks has established unique projects such as Starbucks Card and Starbucks Reward which strengthen the company’s relationship with its consumers through customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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They are focused on their suppliers such as coffee beans farmers and customers. Starbucks through the fair transition to keeping coffee beans market position and provide high-quality coffee as well as a comfortable place to customers enjoy Starbucks’ coffee and food. Also, Starbucks has involved a lot of community activities, so they are created a long-term relationship with the community. Moreover, Starbucks also focus on environment development. Such as cycling activities and water Conservation. It shows Starbucks are responsibility company and ethics operation with CSR in