Word: schultze
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...With reporting by Will Schultz and Karen Tumulty / Washington
...February 2006, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was asked on TV if opening 1,300 stores in the US in a single year was "too much too fast." "Not at all," the then-chairman said. "We have been a growth company for the last 20 years. And the hallmark of that growth has been our ability to invest ahead of the growth curve...
...What a difference two years makes. On July 1, the Seattle coffee behemoth announced that it would close some 600 underperforming stores in the U.S., a move that Schultz called, "the most angst-ridden decision we have made in my more than 25 years with Starbucks." It is a sign that Starbucks, which has 11,434 outlets in the U.S., has hit a wall. The element of truth in countless parodies - like the new Starbucks that opens up in the bathroom of another - has finally caught up to a company that at one time was able to launch five...
PARTYBOYS It was never easy for Scott Schultz, 36, to get his 4-year-old to eat vegetables. That is, until he started singing "There's a party in your tummy, and the green beans want to go," as he made the vegetables on the plate dance...
Parents know those experiences well--which is why it was such a stroke of inspiration for Schultz and co-creator Christian Jacobs, 36, to use them as the basis for Yo Gabba Gabba!, their popular and quirky show on Nick Jr. that teaches preschoolers life's important lessons. Schultz and Jacobs, who's also a father, figured a show like this was overdue. "[Kids' shows] needed a new generation of hip parents," Jacobs says, "not a bunch of executives doing research." So six years ago, they set about tackling the job themselves...