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Howard Schultz, former CEO of Starbucks, is reported to be exploring an independent candidacy for President of the United States in 2020.
2019-01-21

Starbucks opens its first shop in Italy, in the city of Milan. The 25,000 square-foot Reserve Roastery creates 300 jobs.
2018-09-7

Starbucks executive chairman and former CEO Howard Schultz retires from the company.
2018-06-4

American companies Kraft Foods and H.J. Heinz announce merger plans to create a combined company, The Kraft Heinz Company, which will be led by the present CEO of Heinz, Bernardo Hees.
2015-03-25

The European Commission announces that they will begin a formal investigation into Apple, Starbucks and Fiat in relation to tax arrangements with Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
2014-06-11

The remains of a missing young Oregon woman, Whitney Heichel, 21, a Starbucks barista from the Portland, Oregon suburb of Gresham, Oregon, are found on Larch Mountain, Multnomah County, Oregon; after DNA testing and fingerprint analysis, Gresham Police arrested a neighbor who lived nearby in her Gresham apartment complex, Jonathan Holt, 24, on suspicion of aggravated first-degree murder.
2012-10-19

S&P Dow Jones Indices announces that UnitedHealth Group will replace Kraft Foods among the stock issuers that constitute the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
2012-09-14

Starbucks Corporation is embroiled in controversy after asking its Irish customers if they are "proud to be British."
2012-06-5

Kraft Foods announces that it will split into two operations consisting of its North American grocery business and its global snack foods business. [http:--old.news.yahoo.com-s-nm-20110804-bs_nm-us_kraftfoods (Reuters via Yahoo!)]date=July 2019
2011-08-4

Warren Buffett who through Berkshire Hathaway controls a significant block of the shares of Kraft came out in opposition to Kraft's proposal to float 370 million shares in order to fund its bid for the UK based confectioner Cadbury.
2010-01-5