Bearclaw Coffee scores again with their latest successful public relations stunt. Note that public relations stunts are positive things, when orchestrated correctly. This week, the company dispatched one of its mobile coffee vans to the site of their recently announced new location in downtown Detroit and served $.05 cups of coffee to hordes of [...]
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Bearclaw grabs for Detroit’s gourmet coffee customers
October 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Coffee Shop News, Events, Retail Coffee Industry, Tips, starbucks
Tags: bearclaw·coffee·Detroit·public relations stunt·starbucks
Coffee shop boom time as chains defy crunch
October 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Retail Coffee Industry, starbucks
A short but sweet article from the London Evening Standard succinctly hits the key factors behind the ongoing success of coffee retailers despite the economic downturn. There’s no hard data in the story, but after all, the subject matter expert interviewed is selling a report with their company findings.
Jonathan Prynn, Consumer Affairs Editor
17.10.08
CHAIN coffee shops [...]
Tags: coffee·coffee retailers·credit crunch·economic downturn·recession·starbucks
Starbucks: Big Investors’ Divorce Grounds
August 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Coffee Shop News, Retail Coffee Industry, starbucks
BusinessWeek features the story of big investors dumping their interest in Starbucks in a new feature article; I’m Johnny-on-the-spot.
RESTORING LUSTER
But Schultz faces a tough battle in bringing back the company’s traditionally prolific growth. As recently as 2004, Starbucks’ stock traded at an eye-catching 68 times earnings for the trailing 12 months, according to S&P [...]
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Andrew Hetzel in BusinessWeek
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Coffee Shop News, Retail Coffee Industry, starbucks
Starbucks’ announcement to close 600 stores has brought sadness from customers and employees, cheers from some competitors and Wall St., and last but not least, thousands of tasty press articles that need subject matter experts on the topics of retail coffee shops. Ladies and gentlemen, look no further: I am here.
One perfect example is [...]
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Starbucks offers Seattle’s Best vending machine rebuttal
June 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Coffee Shop News, Retail Coffee Industry, starbucks
Alan Hilowitz of Starbucks Global Communications wrote to me personally to address a few issues that he felt were “misinterpreted” in my prior blog post regarding the deployment of Starbucks’ vending machines to grocery stores.
First of all, thank you Alan! Your approach to contact me directly is appreciated and will be far more [...]
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