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Starbucks Company Timeline
1994 Total stores: 425
1971 Starbucks opens first store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market.
1982 Howard Schultz joins Starbucks as director of retail operations and marketing. Starbucks begins providing coffee to fine restaurants and espresso bars.
1995 Begins serving Frappuccino® blended beverages.
Introduces Starbucks® super‐premium ice cream. Announces second two‐for‐one stock split. Opens roasting facility in York, Pa. Total stores: 677 1983 Howard travels to Italy, where he’s impressed with the popularity of espresso bars in Milan. He sees the potential to develop a similar coffeehouse culture in Seattle.
1984 Howard convinces the founders of Starbucks to test the coffeehouse concept in downtown Seattle, where the first Starbucks® Caffè Latte is served. This successful experiment is the genesis for a company that Schultz founds in 1985.
1996 Begins selling bottled Frappuccino® coffee drink through North American Coffee Partnership (Starbucks and Pepsi‐ Cola North America).
Opens stores in: Japan (first store outside of North America) and Singapore. Total stores: 1,015
1985 Howard founds Il Giornale, offering brewed coffee and espresso beverages made from Starbucks® coffee beans.
1997 Establishes The Starbucks Foundation, benefiting local literacy programs.
1987 Il Giornale acquires Starbucks assets with the backing of local investors and changes its name to Starbucks Corporation. Opens in Chicago and Vancouver, Canada.
Opens stores in: the Philippines. Total stores: 1,412
Total stores*: 17
1998 Acquires Tazo, a tea company based in Portland, Ore. Extends the Starbucks brand into grocery channels across the U.S. Launches Starbucks.com. Opens stores in: Malaysia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand and U.K. Total stores: 1,886
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