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Starbucks Pictures GalleryAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Gallery - 21 image entries
Contest Directions: 
This Tuesday all Starbucks shops across the country closed at precisely 5:30 p.m. for 3 hours. The reason was the scheduled retraining of the drink-making employees, known as baristas. Starbucks has seen better times - once a favorite of Wall Street, the company is now trying to increase sales to its past levels, and is closing over 100 shops with slow sales. Tuesday 3 hours employee retraining program was part of the struggle to increase sales and keep customers happy.
Photoshop anything related to Starbucks. Some examples are: showing how life would be different if Starbucks ruled the world, changing Starbucks logo, designing new products that Starbucks might sell, methods to keep the company's revenue up, etc.
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| | Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX, HKSE: 4337.HK) is the American chain of coffeehouses and world's largest coffeehouse. Management company-- Starbucks Corporation. Corporate Headquarters are in Seattle, Washington State.
History:
Chain of coffeehouses was found in 1971. Coffeehouse was named in the honor of character of the novel Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", and logo of chain of coffeehouses -- "two-tailed siren".
Proprietors and management:
Chairman of Board of Directors is Howard Schultz and Chief executive officer of Starbucks is James “Jim” Donald.
Business:
Starbucks Corporation operates chain of 17 thousand coffeehouses and shops in 35 countries, from which, approximately 7500 belong to the company and the others are either franchisees or operating under license. Also, the company is developing chain of music shops “Hear Music”.
Total employee strength in chain of coffeehouses is around 140 thousands. According to Hoovers, in 2006, the company's earnings were $7.8 billions; net profit -- $564 million.
Interesting facts:
One of the main requirements during the selection of premises for coffeehouse Starbucks: Entrance door should look to East or to South and never ever to North. According to the words of Scott Bradberry, one of the founders of brand Starbucks, explains that the customers should enjoy the daylight but the sunrays should not directly fall on their faces |
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