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Chanda Beppu is senior vice president and president of Global Channel Development for Starbucks. Chanda is responsible for creating Starbucks moments outside of its cafés through the Starbucks Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Foodservice businesses, available in more than 85 markets. Chanda leads the strategy, partnership and growth of the Global Coffee Alliance with Nestlé, focused on bringing Starbucks premium coffee products to consumers around the world. She and her team are also responsible for leading the growth and development of Starbucks global ready-to-drink partnerships, including the North America Coffee Partnership with PepsiCo, among many others globally.
Chanda joined Starbucks in 2005 and has held numerous leadership positions across marketing, concept innovation, corporate strategy and finance. Prior to her current role, Chanda was vice president of Beverage, responsible for driving the innovation pipeline and managing and growing the portfolio of beverages in Starbucks stores. Most recently, Chanda and her team launched the Iced Shaken Espresso platform, following successes in Refreshers and Cold Brew Cold Foam. Before coming to Starbucks, she held finance roles at Merrill Lynch and Coca-Cola.
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Starbucks ethically sources and roasts high-quality arabica coffee. They are known as the leading roaster and retailer of specialty coffee globally. Starbucks purchases, roasts, and serves award-winning coffee to its millions of customers. Their food and beverage offerings include Italian-style espresso beverages, cold blended beverages, seasonal drinks, hot breakfast, lunch, snacks, a bakery, and premium teas. Additionally, they sell merchandise like tumblrs and mugs as well as gift cards for special occasions. In some stores around the world, they sell alcoholic drinks. In everything they do, they always live by their mission: to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time. Founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker, Starbucks began as a single store front in Pike Place Market. Originally, they sourced their beans from Peet's Coffee & Tea. Eventually, Alfred Peet stopped supplying his own beans and began to train a new Roastmaster for the company. Following this transition, they sold the company in the 1980's to Howard Schultz who had Italian Coffeehouse aspirations. Originally a coffee bean store, Howard set out to make Starbucks an espresso-based coffeeshop and led much of the expansion of the franchise. With shifts in leadership over time, a decade was spent growing market share and defining corporate social responsibility. Starbucks went on acquire several operations as part of their strategy such as Seattle's Best Coffee, Torrefazione Italia, and The Coffee Connection. Today, Starbucks operates in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, and Asia with about 32,000 stores worldwide.