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Timeline
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Starbucks Coffee Company was founded in 1971, opening its first location in Seattle's Pike Place Market. Today, Starbucks, named after the first mate in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, is the world's leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee with coffeehouses worldwide. More than 11 million customers visit a Starbucks coffeehouse each week.
1971
Starbucks opens its first location in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, USA.
1982
Howard Schultz joins Starbucks as director of retail operations and marketing. Starbucks begins providing coffee to fine restaurants and espresso bars.
1984
Schultz convinces the founders of Starbucks to test the coffee bar concept in a new location in downtown Seattle. Overwhelmingly successful, this experiment is the genesis for a company that Schultz will found in 1985.
1987
Opens in Chicago and Vancouver, B.C.
Starbucks locations total = 17
1989
Opens in Portland, Oregon.
Starbucks locations total = 55
1991
Opens first licensed airport location with HMS Host at Sea-Tac International Airport. Opens in Los Angeles
Starbucks locations total = 116
1992
Starbucks goes public. Common Stock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the ticker symbol “SBUX”.
1993
Opens in Washington, D.C.
Starbucks locations total = 272
1994
Opens first stores in Minneapolis, Boston, New York, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston.
Starbucks locations total = 425
1995
Opens in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Baltimore, San Antonio, and Austin, Texas.
Starbucks locations total = 676
1996
Starbucks Coffee International opens locations in Japan, Hawaii, and Singapore.
Starbucks locations total = 1015
1998
Starbucks Coffee International opens locations in U.K., Taiwan, Thailand, New Zealand, and Malaysia.
Starbucks locations total = 1886
1999
Starbucks Coffee International opens locations in China, Kuwait; Korea, and Lebanon.
Starbucks locations total = 2135
2000
Starbucks Coffee locations total over 3500
2001
30 years after its foundation, Starbucks opens its first coffeehouse on the European Continent.
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
2002
Starbucks Coffee International opens in Oman; Indonesia; Germany; Spain; Puerto Rico; Mexico; Greece and Southern China.
2003
Starbucks Coffee International opens in Turkey, Chile, and Perú.
2004
Starbucks Coffee International opens in Paris.
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