{"id":124981,"date":"2024-08-04T09:09:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T13:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=124981"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:15:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:15:58","slug":"starbucks-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/starbucks-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2007-2008 Starbucks Crisis: What Led to Its Near Defeat?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What was the Starbucks crisis in 2007 and 2008? What caused Starbucks stocks to drop at a worrying pace during this time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the mid-2000s, Starbucks was in a great place as a franchise. However, the decision to focus on rapid growth over in-store experience led to customer complaints, dropping stocks, and slow financial growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading to learn about the factors that led to Starbucks&#8217;s downfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-starbucks-fell-from-grace\">How <strong>Starbucks Fell From Grace<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Starbucks crisis roots back to the focus on franchise-building, led by former CEO Orin Smith. Although Schultz commends Orin Smith\u2019s leadership, he also says that Smith\u2019s focus on expansion by opening new stores domestically and abroad was bad for business. Many of the new locations didn\u2019t operate sustainably, and the cost of opening them overshadowed the profits they brought in. However, opening new stores helped Starbucks <em>appear <\/em>to be growing, so the next CEO, Jim Donald, continued that strategy. Donald also led Starbucks\u2019 breakthrough into the entertainment industry by developing partnerships with creators and promoting or co-producing their work.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/07\/20\/starbucks-australia-coffee-failure.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Starbucks\u2019 failure in Australia<\/a> illustrates the perils of haphazard international expansion. When Starbucks opened in Australia in 2000, the nation preferred unsweet and inexpensive coffee. Starbucks failed to fulfill this preference, which led them to lose millions and eventually close most Australian locations. Despite this, global expansion remained a growth strategy partially because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/archive\/portfolios\/rulebreaker\/2000\/04\/28\/starbucks-boils-over.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expansion signals future success to investors<\/a>, prompting them to pour money into the business. Starbucks\u2019 expansion into entertainment was another growth strategy called <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbusiness.chron.com\/growth-strategies-business-4510.html\">diversification<\/a>, which is risky because offering new products requires a company to <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/1997\/11\/to-diversify-or-not-to-diversify\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reallocate resources and develop new competencies<\/a>\u2014costs that may not pay off.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schultz says he began having doubts about Donald\u2019s leadership because he started hearing more customer complaints. Starbucks was also suffering financially\u2014growth slowed to a snail\u2019s pace and stocks dropped tremendously\u2014a decline that was worsened by the 2007 economic downturn. Schultz didn\u2019t blame Donald because he felt all of Starbucks\u2019 leaders shared responsibility for its performance, but he generally disagreed with the direction the company was headed. In his view, <strong>Starbucks\u2019 leaders were failing the company by prioritizing rapid growth over in-store performance<\/strong>, which diminished the distinct coffeehouse experience that made Starbucks valuable to its customers and damaged in-store employee morale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/built-to-last\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Built to Last<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>Jim Collins and Jerry Porras explain that successful companies have a <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/built-to-last\/chapter-3#the-importance-of-a-core-philosophy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>core philosophy<\/em><\/a>, or set of guiding values, that keeps them zeroed in on their focus, which in turn sustains stakeholder satisfaction. To withstand changes and challenges, a company (and everyone inside it) must keep sight of its core philosophy at all times. This plausibly explains why Starbucks degraded after Schultz stepped down from his role as CEO: His successors had a different understanding of Starbucks\u2019 core philosophy than Schultz did, so they prioritized growth over its <a href=\"https:\/\/chisellabs.com\/glossary\/what-is-a-core-product\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">core offering<\/a> to customers (a distinct coffeehouse experience), leading to a decline in the company\u2019s overall performance.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>The 2007-2008 Financial Crisis<\/strong><br><br>The 2007-2008 financial crisis serves as the economic backdrop to <em>Onward<\/em>. It put Starbucks in a tough spot, beginning with the 2007 economic downturn, and influenced many of the decisions Schultz would have to make when he returned as CEO. To help you understand the financial position Starbucks was in, here\u2019s some background on the crisis:<br><br>The financial crisis, also known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/g\/great-recession.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Great Recession<\/a>, was the worst economic situation suffered by the US since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/great-depression-and-the-new-deal\/\">Great Depression<\/a> of the 1930s. It stemmed from the collapse of the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/current-housing-market\/\">housing market<\/a> bubble (a boom and then a sudden drop in the housing industry), which was fueled by risky lending by major financial institutions. When the bubble burst, these institutions lost money and became wary of lending to one another. In turn, this led to the collapse of major financial institutions once considered \u201ctoo big to fail\u201d and sparked a worldwide recession marked by widespread unemployment, foreclosures, and government bailouts. Consumer spending decreased and businesses like Starbucks suffered from a corresponding loss of revenue.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was the Starbucks crisis in 2007 and 2008? What caused Starbucks stocks to drop at a worrying pace during this time? By the mid-2000s, Starbucks was in a great place as a franchise. However, the decision to focus on rapid growth over in-store experience led to customer complaints, dropping stocks, and slow financial growth. 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