Starbucks
OpenCalais Metadata: Ticker
Gaza boycotts hurt McDonald's sales
A banner year came to a bumpy end for McDonald's, which lost sales in many markets due to the war in Gaza.
Global same-store sales - or sales at restaurants open at least a year - rose 3.4 percent in the October-December period, well below the 4.7 percent increase Wall Street was expecting.
- Read more about Gaza boycotts hurt McDonald's sales
- Log in to post comments
Armed attack targets Starbucks store in Adana amid boycott calls
A store of coffee giant Starbucks in the southern province of Adana has been targeted in an armed attack, in the latest incident on the global chain following mounting boycott calls over its support to Israel amid the Gaza war.
Multinational companies vow to hire thousands of refugees in Europe
Multinational companies including Amazon, Marriott and Hilton pledged yesterday to hire more than 13,000 refugees, including Ukrainian women who have fled the war with Russia, over the next three years in Europe.
Schultz defends Starbucks’ tough union stance
Longtime Starbucks leader Howard Schultz defended the coffee chain's confrontational approach to unionization on March 29, while insisting it had not violated U.S. labor law in countering the campaign.
The hearing, which got contentious at some points, was convened by progressive Senator Bernie Sanders, focusing on what the independent from Vermont called "illegal union busting."
- Read more about Schultz defends Starbucks’ tough union stance
- Log in to post comments
Cypriot fund to buy local Starbucks
ECM Partners, a Cypriot-owned investment fund, is putting the finishing touches to a deal to acquire Starbucks in Greece and Cyprus.
- Read more about Cypriot fund to buy local Starbucks
- Log in to post comments
Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store
Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on June 18, a union said, joining a growing push across U.S. retail, service and tech industries to organize for greater workplace protections.
- Read more about Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store
- Log in to post comments
To use rather than collect, the second coming of NFTs
NFTs have been called everything from fads to outright scams, but early adopters see a future for them as uniquely useful tools for business, health and the arts that goes beyond mere digital collecting.
Union says Starbucks fired organizing committee at US store
A union representing Starbucks employees on Tuesday accused the coffee chain of firing workers attempting to organize in the US state of Tennessee.
Starbucks Workers United said employees comprising "almost the entire union organizing committee" at a store in Memphis were fired weeks after two Starbucks stores in New York became the first to formally organize.
US cruise ship in limbo as anti-virus controls spread
U.S. officials were deciding where to dock a cruise ship in California with 21 virus cases aboard and four American universities canceled in-person classes as sweeping efforts to contain the outbreak that started in China spread to the West.
The Grand Princess, with 3,500 people aboard, was in international waters off San Francisco late on March 6.
Stores, vehicles damaged in Athens, Thessaloniki during the night
A barrage of vandalisms took place in central areas of Athens and the second biggest city Thessaloniki on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, police said.