An article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal looks at Starbucks new experimentation with Lean manufacturing principles, which just so happens to be the area of expertise of an old friend of mine. Under a new initiative being put into practice at its more than 11,000 U.S. stores, there will be no more bending over to [...]
Entries from August 2009
Starbucks experiments with Lean
August 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Coffee Shop News, Retail Coffee Industry, starbucks
Tags: lean·mark graban·starbucks
New coffee business magazine hopes to bury competition (with ads)
August 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Retail Coffee Industry
In a curious Friday press release, FMM Media, self-described publisher of Funeral Business Advisor (check out this month’s feature on “tribute blankets,” who knew?) announced that it will launch a new trade magazine circulated primarily to independent coffee and tea shops. “As part of FMM Media’s mission to become the leading publication in the coffee [...]
Tags: coffee business·coffee business solutions·funeral business·trade magazine
