Starbucks Coffee Enters Bulgarian Market

Starbucks is set to open its first Bulgarian coffee shop in the capital of Sofia in early November, 2008, the company said recently in a media release. The American based coffee chain will open its new store as a franchise through Greek firm Marinopoulos Bros. The store will be the first of many they plan [...]

What’s the taste of Starbucks Thanksgiving blend?

When Starbucks called Tom Douglas asking the Seattle restaurant icon to collaborate on a Starbucks coffee blend for Thanksgiving, Douglas figured what the heck. He’s carried Starbucks coffee in his restaurants for almost 20 years.

“I thought it was going to be more of a marketing thing.”

Turns out, it was a serious culinary experience, beginning with [...]

Starbucks dumped by their ad agency

Starbucks’ ad agency, Wieden & Kennedy, has quit the account. The story on Gawker is pretty detailed, and it sounds like W & K was just fed up and Starbucks sucks as a client.
During the four years that Wieden & Kennedy, known for creative and effective ads for marketers such as Nike and P&G, toiled [...]

QuickOrder: Starbucks ordering on iPhone

Multimedia designer, Phil Lu, has created some mockups of an iPhone application that he calls “QuickOrder”. The series of images show how oa systrders with iPhone might work at Starbucks. Its pretty cool.
In an application with the U.S. Patent Office filed on Dec. 20, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer and gadget company described a wireless system [...]