It’s just a moment in time – just one hand reaching over the counter to present a cup to another outstretched hand. But it’s a connection.

We make sure everything we do honors that connection – from our commitment to the highest quality coffee in the world, to the way we engage with our customers and communities to do business responsibly. From our beginnings as a single store nearly forty years ago, in every place that we’ve been, and every place that we touch, we've tried to make it a little better than we found it.

It’s a lot like working with friends. For one thing, the people who work here aren’t “employees” - we're “partners” because we passionately share common goals and mutual success. We’re dedicated to serving ethically sourced coffee, caring for the environment and giving back to the communities where we do business.

We’re called partners, because it’s not just a job, it’s our passion. Together, we embrace diversity to create a place where each of us can be ourselves. We always treat each other with respect and dignity. And we hold each other to that standard.

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      • Starbucks Newsroom: Starbucks Announces Q2 Fiscal Year 2013 Results Conference Call

        SEATTLE, April 10, 2013 - Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) plans to release its second quarter fiscal year 2013 financial results after the market close on Thursday, April 25, 2013, with a conference call and webcast to follow at 2:00 p.m. PT. The conference call will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed at http://investor.starbucks.com.

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        Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ:SBUX) today announced that it has appointed Matthew Ryan as global chief strategy officer. Ryan was previously senior… Read morevice president of global brand, franchise and customer relationship management for The Walt Disney Company.“The Starbucks Experience is built on our partners’ (employees) passion for creating meaningful moments of connection more than 70 million times every week and our company’s devotion to continuously innovating new choices and experiences that surprise and delight our customers at every interaction,” said Starbucks chairman, president and ceo Howard Schultz. “Matt’s innovative approach to customer analytics, market segmentation and brand optimization will bring a new level of insight and imagination to Starbucks and our significant brand ambitions.”
        • Starbucks Newsroom: Starbucks Names Matthew Ryan Global Chief Strategy Officer
          Starbucks Newsroom: Starbucks Names Matthew Ryan Global Chief Strategy Officer

          Matthew Ryan (Photo: Business Wire) SEATTLE, April 04, 2013 - Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ:SBUX) today announced that it has appointed Matthew Ryan as global chief strategy officer. Ryan was previously senior vice president of global brand, franchise and customer relationship management for The Walt Disney Company.

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            Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ:SBUX) today announced that its partners (employees), customers and community members are on track to volunteer one… Read moremillion community service hours around the world as part of their 2015 global responsibility goals. To help accelerate the company’s progress towards this ambitious goal, Starbucks is strengthening and expanding its third annual Global Month of Service, which kicks off on April 1, with the following five companies - Alaska Airlines, Deloitte, Fidelity Investments®, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and Square.Working together, the organizations will help drive tailored community service projects in the hometowns of these businesses throughout April in select U.S. cities to foster positive, long-term change. Starbucks Global Month of Service, which runs throughout April, is expected to inspire over 300,000 hours of service, by more than 75,000 volunteers, through 2,700 projects, across 40 countries around the globe.

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              Today, consumers can walk into a Starbucks to order a “skinny” beverage, receive digital rewards for using their Starbucks Card… Read moreand enjoy the free Wi-Fi. These innovations, and hundreds more, have enhanced the Starbucks experience because of customer ideas shared on MyStarbucksIdea.com.This month, Starbucks celebrates a five-year milestone of innovation on MyStarbucksIdea.com, an online community for people to share, vote, discuss and put into action ideas on how to enhance the Starbucks experience. The site was founded to create an open dialogue and collaborative environment with consumers to share their thoughts and ideas and allow them to play a vital role in how they interact with Starbucks, both in and out of stores.

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                Howard Schultz, chairman, president and ceo of Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ:SBUX), opened the company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders… Read moreby recognizing company partners (employees) and highlighting the company’s continuing robust operating performance. Schultz and other company executives announced a breakthrough innovation in Starbucks loyalty and rewards program, shared progress and future plans for its recent La Boulange, Evolution Fresh and Teavana acquisitions and offered a comprehensive overview of how Starbucks is using its global scale to create positive, local impact in the communities where it operates and where its partners and customers live and work.Annual meeting highlights included: Thanks and appreciation from company shareholders via webcast to the 200,000 Starbucks partners around the world who deliver the Starbucks Experience to over 70 million customers in 62 countries each week. The announcement by Adam Brotman, chief digital officer, of an expansion of the company’s loyalty and rewards program, and an industry-first innovation that will enable customers to earn rewards for grocery channel purchases that can be redeemed in Starbucks retail stores and is expected to double the number of customers enrolled in the company’s programs in fiscal 2013. Brotman also announced that Starbucks mobile payment platform is now generating over three million U.S. mobile payment transactions per week. Blair Taylor, Starbucks chief community officer, announced the launch of a new nonprofit corporation with a $1 million seed grant to introduce job skills, leadership and apprenticeship programs to young people across the company’s multi-billion-dollar supply chain, and further expansion of the company’s support for U.S. manufacturing through an order for 100,000 ceramic mugs from a supplier in Ohio whose operations Starbucks helped expand through previous purchasing commitments. A discussion by Troy Alstead, chief financial officer, of region-by-region and individual segment performance for fiscal 2012 and a reaffirmation of the company’s fiscal 2013 revenue and EPS growth targets. Schultz’s recognition of Starbucks 15-year business partnership with Mohammed Alshaya, Executive Chairman, M.H. Alshaya Co., including comments about how bringing specialty coffee to the Middle East serves as a model for the company’s future expansion initiatives.

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                   To help coffee farming communities around the world mitigate climate change impact, and support long-term crop stability, Starbucks Coffee… Read moreCompany (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced that it is expanding the company’s $70 million comprehensive ethical sourcing program with a new farming research and development center in Costa Rica. These programs are part of Starbucks ongoing billion-dollar commitment to ethically sourcing 100 percent of its coffee by 2015.Starbucks will adapt this active 240-hectare farm located on the slopes of the Poas Volcano into a global agronomy center. The work happening on this farm will enable the company to expand its Coffee and Farming Equity practices (C.A.F.E.), the industry-leading ethical sourcing model developed in partnership with Conservation International which ensures coffee quality while promoting social, environmental and economic standards.
                  • Starbucks Newsroom: Starbucks Expands $70 Million Ethical Sourcing Program With New Global Agronomy Center
                    Starbucks Newsroom: Starbucks Expands $70 Million Ethical Sourcing Program With New Global Agronomy Center

                    Starbucks is expanding the company's $70 million comprehensive ethical sourcing program with a new farming research and development center in Costa Rica. (Photo: Business Wire) SEATTLE, March 18, 2013 - To help coffee farming communities around the world mitigate climate change impact, and support long-term crop stability, Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced that it is expanding the company's $70 million comprehensive ethical sourcing program with a new farming research and development center in Costa Rica.

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                    Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced that it has appointed Sharon Rothstein as global chief marketing officer. Rothstein was… Read morepreviously senior vice president of marketing at innovative specialty beauty retailer Sephora.“Throughout our 42-year history, Starbucks has strived to innovate and exceed the expectations of our customers around the world,” said Starbucks chairman, president and ceo Howard Schultz. “Sharon’s forward-thinking brand sensibility and global cross-channel marketing expertise will continue to push us toward our aspiration of building one of the world’s most relevant, trusted and enduring brands.”Rothstein will report to Schultz and serve on Starbucks senior leadership team. She will steward the Starbucks brand as well as the company’s portfolio of emerging brands, including Seattle’s Best Coffee, Evolution Fresh, La Boulange, Tazo and Teavana.

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