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Starbucks Accelerates Path toward One Million Community Service Hours in 2013 Through 3rd Annual Glo

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Starbucks Accelerates Path toward One Million Community Service Hours in 2013 Through 3 rd Annual Global Month of Service

Starbucks expands initiative with co-hosted hometown service projects with Alaska Airlines, Deloitte, Fidelity Investments®, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and Square around the United States

Launch coincides with the publication of its 12 th annual Global Responsibility Report and recognition of more than 600,000 hours of community service contributed in 2012

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Starbucks Coffee Company (NAS: SBUX) today announced that its partners (employees), customers and community members are on track to volunteer one million 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.

“Coming together in service represents a fundamental act of citizenship that inspires individuals, businesses and community members to work together to create a stronger, more cohesive society,” said Blair Taylor, Starbucks chief community officer. “Our hope is that through service, and working with organizations like these as well as the people in the neighborhoods that we call home, we can help build the connections that will result in long term social and economic benefit as well as civic action.”

The Starbucks Global Month of Service, with the support of these companies will help achieve a 25% increase in participation from 2012. The cumulative reach of these projects will help Starbucks move toward one of its global responsibility goals of providing one million hours of community service by 2015.

Serving different aspects of the Starbucks enterprise, the organizations participating in Global Month of Service are encouraging their employees in their corporate hometown markets to join pre-determined local projects in conjunction with local non-profits. All of the service activities are reflective of the unique needs of each area and provide participants with …read more
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ADDING MULTIMEDIA Starbucks Introduces Innovative Cross-Channel, Multi-Brand Loyalty Program and Ann

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ADDING MULTIMEDIA Starbucks Introduces Innovative Cross-Channel, Multi-Brand Loyalty Program and Announces Global Social Impact Initiatives at Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Company Recognizes the Contributions of its 200,000 Global Partners (Employees) in Delivering Record Financial Performance and a 38% Total Return to Shareholders in Fiscal 2012, Reaffirms Long-Term Growth Targets

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Howard Schultz, chairman, president and ceo of Starbucks Coffee Company (NAS: SBUX) , opened the company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders by 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.

Howard Schultz, chairman, president and ceo, acknowledges the more than 200,000 Starbucks partners (employees) worldwide for their contributions to the company’s ongoing success. (Photo: Business Wire)

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 …read more
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Starbucks Introduces Innovative Cross-Channel, Multi-Brand Loyalty Program and Announces Global Soci

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Starbucks Introduces Innovative Cross-Channel, Multi-Brand Loyalty Program and Announces Global Social Impact Initiatives at Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Company Recognizes the Contributions of its 200,000 Global Partners (Employees) in Delivering Record Financial Performance and a 38% Total Return to Shareholders in Fiscal 2012, Reaffirms Long-Term Growth Targets

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Howard Schultz, chairman, president and ceo of Starbucks Coffee Company (NAS: SBUX) , opened the company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders by 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 …read more
    Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance