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Howard Schultz
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He created Starbucks Coffee
Mr. Starbuck
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In 1987, the original owners sold the Starbucks chain to former employee Howard Schultz, who rebranded his Il Giornale coffee outlets as Starbucks and quickly began to expand.
Howard Schultz was hired - by the two schoolteachers and a writer that founded Starbucks - to be in charge.
Howard Schultz is an American writer and businessman. He is the CEO and chairman of Starbucks and formally owned the Seattle Supersonics. Howard Schultz also co-founded an investment group known as Maveron.
Howard Schultz is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of the Starbucks Corporation.
Seattle Supersonics
No Starbucks was started as a small coffee bean sales store in which the original owners did not want to expand much beyond their small business. Howard Schultz stepped in to work for them and put some new ideas on the table which some the owners went with but still not wanting to expand Howard Schultz bought his own coffee shop and started to dive into the coffee bar idea. One of the owners of the orignal Starbucks inherited his fathers coffee business and sold the Starbucks to Howard Schultz.
Starbucks founder Howard D. Schultz is 63 years old (born July 19, 1953).* US producer Howard Schultz (Extreme Makeover) was 61 years old when he died on December 19, 2014 (born October 14, 1953).