Hints and tips:
...Activist calls to shun Starbucks’ products spread after the company sued its workers’ union over a social media post last October....
...They need a plan B and a plan C,” said Patricia Lenkov, an expert on corporate governance and succession.No company wants to deal with the ramifications of disaster successions such as Microsoft’s in 2013...
...After what Phipson called a “ticker tape of announcements”, including “26 changes in corporation tax since 2019”, the directors of three companies from the hospitality, manufacturing and recruitment sectors...
...Although to us, that seems like a lot of money. Ethan WuWell, yeah, that’s true, but no, if it’s a $100bn company, you know, and everyone there’s a millionaire, you’d get laughed out of the room....
...President Franklin D Roosevelt enacted the NLRB in 1935 as part of a sweeping set of legislation amid a series of violent labour disputes....
...If Starbucks was a bank, that would make it bigger than 90 per cent of institutions covered by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation by deposit size....
...When Laxman Narasimhan gave up his $7.5mn role as head of UK-listed household products group Reckitt Benckiser, he went on to run US coffee chain Starbucks for up to $28mn a year....
...At a Starbucks in the futuristic headquarters of Naver, South Korea’s biggest internet company, a line of robots is on standby to fetch coffee for the company’s employees....
...The state-run oil producer said the energy ministry had ordered the move which would have increased its daily output from 12mn barrels a day to 13mn b/d by 2027....
...Liberal firebrand senator Bernie Sanders accused Starbucks founder and billionaire Howard Schultz of leading an unprecedented crusade of “illegal union-busting” at the coffee chain in a Senate hearing face-off...
...US Democrats are putting together a “Plan B” to keep funding for Ukraine after Senate Republicans, encouraged by former president Donald Trump, voted down a bipartisan $118bn deal that had tied support for...
...Laxman Narasimhan will attend as part of his first trip to Starbucks’ second-largest market since he took over from Howard Schultz as CEO of the coffee chain in March....
...In a city that is also home to corporations as rich and powerful as Amazon, Boeing and Microsoft, I ask Schultz what part companies should play in tackling such challenges....
...BlackRock and Starbucks....
...If a director finds himself sitting in a corporate board room without the energy or the gumption to hold management accountable, then he is not doing his sole job of representing the owners of the company...
...The war for the future of Starbucks is reaching a peak in a café just a short walk from where the coffee juggernaut was founded....
...Meanwhile, if you like investing in deposit-taking institutions, you might give Starbucks a look....
...“I’m done with city living and just want some peace,” says the chief design officer for Starbucks Coffee Company, who’s lived in New York, Tokyo and Shanghai....
...Michela TinderaAnd how is Starbucks, the corporation, reacted to all of this?...
...In a simple shape it conveys a C, a B, an & [ampersand symbol], and suggests everything is tied together....
...It’s a beautiful space that it kind of catalyses or encourages connection and places to go outside and be with someone else and have a coffee....
...For starters, I’d love to see a really big, public transatlantic push around the unionisation of the clean energy supply chain....
..., a place where you can go from silage to Starbucks in less than 15 minutes....
...The coffee chain’s relatively small outlets lend themselves to rallying a handful of workers at a time....
...link that James Perry has also noted in his role as a board member with B Lab, organiser of the burgeoning B Corporation movement — a global network of companies that make themselves legally accountable...
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