Starbucks
Joshua Fine is an accomplished marketing executive with extensive experience in the food and beverage industry, currently serving as Vice President of International Marketing, Product & Digital at Starbucks since September 2010. Joshua Fine's leadership has guided the global marketing strategies, product innovation, and digital transformation initiatives to enhance customer engagement. Previous roles at Starbucks include Vice President of Marketing Operations & Digital Transformation and Director of US Marketing, where Joshua focused on personalized marketing efforts for the My Starbucks Rewards program. Prior to Starbucks, Joshua Fine held positions at E&J Gallo Winery, where responsibilities included consumer marketing for Barefoot Wine Cellars, and had earlier experience at Coach, Keller's Gifts, Inc., and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Joshua Fine holds an MBA in Marketing from Cornell University and a BA in Political Science from Colgate University.
Starbucks
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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.