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Starbucks evaluating the Indian organised coffee retailing market
Starbucks could be in talks with six potential partners and is considering a joint venture with Indian firms from the retail and lifestyle sectors. The news comes after the announcement at the start of the year that Costa Coffee intended to build a portfolio of 300 sites in India using a local franchise partner.
Shultz Starbucks
Born in 1952 and raised in Brooklyn, Howard Shultz was the first man to turn the Starbucks Company into a billion dollar retail operation. Howard Shultz grew up in a subsidized housing project is the eldest of three children and the first in his family to ever graduate from college. Moreover, Shultz attended Northern Michigan University with a bachelor's degree in the arts and sciences on a football scholarship.

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Starbucks Coffee Shops
Buying coffee is not as easy today as it once used to be. When was the last time you walked into your local corner bakery and ordered “a cup of coffee, please”? With Starbucks coffee shops springing up around the world faster than you can even say Starbucks coffee shops, ordering coffee today has become a complicated affair.

Coffee Franchise Opportunities: Does Starbucks Franchise?…and Other Coffee Business Franchises
Does the aroma of brewing coffee transport you to a sensory paradise? Is a steaming latte your idea of comfort food? Do you consider coffee its own separate food group? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then a coffee franchise may be for you! When someone says “coffee shop,” the name that most often comes to mind is Starbucks. So it’s only natural that coffee connoisseurs and entrepreneurs will immediately want to know if this wildly successful java chain offers the opportunity to buy Starbucks franchises.
The Merchant of Maine: L.L. Bean is Born
For the first 39 years of his life, few people ever thought that Leon Leonwood Bean would amount to much. He floated from one undistinguished job to the next, and had little in the way of formal education. Instead, Bean was a young man happy to retreat to the woods, whiling away his time hunting and trapping instead of reading books. But it was Bean’s love of nature that would eventually become what is today a thriving multimillion dollar business. Named one of the Wall Street Journals Top Ten Entrepreneurs of the 20th century, Bean turned his passion into the internationally successful outdoor clothing and equipment company L.L. Bean.

Dressed for Success: L.L. Bean Takes On Retail
Bean had designed the Maine Hunting Boot to solve his own problem of wet feet, but once it was created, he knew it was going to be a hit. He was so sure of its innovative design that he even paid the hefty sum to have it patented. Once the local shoemaker had made a few more pairs, Bean began to promote his product.

Lesson #1: Plan for the Long Run If You Want to Run Long
Hunting was nothing new, and neither was hiking. Both had been around for as long as man and Bean knew it. His business had sprung up from a need that was not being met – getting wet feet in the great outdoors. It was a need that had not been met for centuries past, and one that would need to keep being met for years ahead. Bean knew that if he played his cards right, his company could be at the forefront of meeting that need for the foreseeable future, and beyond. Indeed, it was Bean’s long term vision and planning that explains the company’s continued success.

Lesson #2: Care for Your Customers and They Will Keep Coming Back for More
When Bean first founded his company, he did so with one golden rule in mind: “Sell good merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings, and they will always come back for more.” Today, Bean is a legend in the industry for his willingness to go above and beyond the call of duties for his customers. From having a 100 percent money back guarantee to keeping stores open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Bean placed the customers’ priorities at the heart of everything he did. And that was why they continue to reward his company so well.

Lesson #3: Go Ahead and Get Your Hands a Little Dirty
Bean might have been an entrepreneur, and a successful one at that, but in his heart he was a hunter, and a fisherman, and an all around outdoorsman. He felt more comfortable in the woods of Maine than in the corporate boardrooms of the city. It was his passion that gave birth to the company, and a passion he never lost. It might have been for that reason that Bean insisted on being hands on and putting his personal touch on everything the company did. From talking to customers to putting new products through trial runs, Bean could always be found right there in the middle of all the action.

Lesson #4: Network to Bring Others Into the Know
By the end of World War II, L.L. Bean products were being found in the homes of everyone from Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Roosevelt to Doris Day, Babe Ruth, and the Aga Khan. Even John Wayne took off his country western getup to wear something a la L.L. Bean every now and then. But, was this just coincidence? Or was it part of a larger strategy on Bean’s part to grow his business by networking and creating word of mouth?

Finding Success in the Great Outdoors: How Bean Lived his Dream
When Bean died in 1967, the executives at the company he had founded were not sure if they should publicize his death. Bean’s attachment to the company was such that most customers believed he himself still personally tested each product and tended to each of their orders. His successors feared that if people knew he was gone, that perception would be eroded and the company would lose ground. They considered keeping his death a secret, until a television news show got wind and broke the story. That was the importance that Bean, at 94, still had on his company. But just how did this outdoorsman create one of the most successful and innovative mail-order catalogue companies of his time?

The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Franchise to open its fifth outlet in India
20 Jan 2010: Blue Foods leading coffee chain The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) is all set to open its fifth outlet at Blue Heaven, Linking Road, Bandra West in Mumbai on January 21. According to the company's spokesperson, it is the third outlet of CBTL in Mumbai with the other two present in CR2 Mall, Nariman Point and Sobo Central mall,Tardeo in Mumbai.
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