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| 1 | Washington state wines make annual best-of list | Business |
| Washington wine continues to ascend the ladder of international prestige, reaching another rung this week when Wine Spectator magazine placed a Washington vintage atop its annual list of the world's best wines for the first time. | ||
| 11/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Starbucks seeks managers of social media, digital strategy | Business |
| Both require "seasoned, digital strategists who are passionate about ideating." (Which may or may not be like George W. Bush's strategery or misunderestimating.) Despite their silly verbs, the media team at Starbucks is serious. | ||
| 11/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Energy use becomes part of TV-buying equation | Business |
| "They were saying, 'We'll stay home and get an extra television set to entertain ourselves as opposed to going someplace,' " surmised Jim Sinegal, CEO of Costco Wholesale, which saw a boost in TV sales last fall while other product categories tanked. | ||
| 11/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | El Diablo Coffee on Queen Anne enters turkey latte art smackdown | Business |
| Maybe smackdown isn't the best word for a Thanksgiving theme? Then again, with 273 million turkeys "produced" (a.k.a. "smacked down") nationally this year, most of them for Thanksgiving, maybe it is. Here's a gorgeous "live" turkey from Warren at El Diablo Coffee on Queen Anne: | ||
| 11/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Is Starbucks having another customer-friendly computer problem? Gold Card members find a loophole | Business |
| With the advent of its new frequent-buyer program, Starbucks will nix the 10 percent discount that Gold Card carriers have gotten, once their current year of membership ends. They don't dig that and appear to have found a way around it. | ||
| 11/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | Sounders paying off for Pioneer Square | Business |
| Many Pioneer Square restaurants and retailers, hit hard by the economy, are grateful for a team with 31,000 enthusiastic followers who spend money eating, drinking and shopping for sports paraphernalia before each game. | ||
| 11/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Howard Schultz's base salary raised to $1.3 million for Starbucks' fiscal 2010 | Business |
| That's from about $10,000 in fiscal 2009, when the Starbucks CEO requested that it be reduced to the minimum necessary for him to continue receiving health-care and other benefits. Schultz's salary for the previoust few years had been $1.2 million. His total compensation in fiscal 2008 was $9. | ||
| 11/18/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Street Bean Espresso, new nonprofit coffee shop in Belltown, hosts reception Wednesday evening | Business |
| Street Bean Espresso opened at Third Avenue and Cedar Street in Belltown earlier this month but has its grand opening today, including a reception from 5 p.m. (that's right now) until 7 p.m. for local artist Jen Grabarczyk. | ||
| 11/18/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Turkey latte art smackdown? Check out this gobbler from Fremont Coffee. | Business |
| Chris Webb, who owns Fremont Coffee with his daughter Anya Mushen, saw my post last night with Jared Mockli's turkey latte art and e-mailed this spectacular gobbler by Christian Morris at Fremont Coffee: | ||
| 11/18/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Starbucks opens Tudor-style coffeehouse on Capitol Hill called Roy Street Coffee & Tea | Business |
| Starbucks opens Roy Street Coffee & Tea on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, the second of three stores it plans in Seattle that are "inspired by Starbucks" but don't carry its name. | ||
| 11/17/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Dubsea Coffee opens in White Center public housing community | Business |
| "Being open and loving -- and inspiring each other to be that way -- is what I hope this space will achieve," the shop's creator, Sibelle Nguyen, told the West Seattle Herald. | ||
| 11/17/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Starbucks' second non-Starbucks opens at 6 a.m. Wednesday on Capitol Hill | Business |
| Workers are putting final touches on Roy Street Coffee & Tea, at 700 Broadway East. It will be the second of three non-Starbucks stores that the chain is opening in Seattle. The first, 15th Avenue Coffee & Tea, opened in July. More details about Roy Street after this evening's media preview. | ||
| 11/17/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Starbucks expands T-discs (not to be confused with K-cups) | Business |
| Instead of K-cups, Starbucks has T-discs, which are made in partnership with Kraft and dispensed in home machines called Tassimos, made by Bosch. Other roasters also make T-discs. Starbucks has been relatively quiet about its T-disc partnership since unveiling it two years ago. | ||
| 11/16/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | More Twitter coffee talk at Caffeinated Conversations | Business |
| Jason Simon of Mill Creek launched Caffeinated Conversations last spring and posts a new topic of conversation every Monday. Today's is about Twitter, and includes information from my post last week about Starbucks' Twitter master Brad Nelson along with other coffee purveyors' Twitter efforts. | ||
| 11/16/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Complete Q&A with Costco founder, CEO Jim Sinegal | Business |
| A: We made it a point. We knew how difficult the economic times were last October and November. We knew how nervous everyone was. It's certainly one of first times in my life I can recall fear in people relative to economics. | ||
| 11/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | QA: Costco CEO Jim Sinegal talks about recession, succession | Business |
| A few days before flying to Colorado for the opening of Costco Wholesale's 561st store, co-founder and CEO Jim Sinegal sat down at its Issaquah headquarters to talk about the country's third-largest retailer after Walmart and Kroger. | ||
| 11/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | How many coffee cards do you have? | Business |
| Some shops use paper punch cards. Others have stored-value cards or membership-style cards a la Costco. Starbucks is trying to entice people to its revised loyalty program -- which has upset some loyal customers -- with a new mini card designed by Project Runway winner Christian Siriano. | ||
| 11/13/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Nordstrom joins tie-in trend with Twilight movie | Business |
| More than 100 Twilight fans descended on the Nordstrom store at Southcenter mall Thursday to celebrate next Friday's release of "New Moon," the latest movie in the vampire-romance series. | ||
| 11/13/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | It's bonus time at Starbucks; top executives receive stock units worth millions | Business |
| Several top executives received restricted stock units this week. They were technically granted a year ago (contingent on performance), but not "earned" until now, and they vest over the next two years. It's a long process, but they're more valuable than stock options. | ||
| 11/12/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Tully's narrows quarterly loss by 45 percent, elects two new directors | Business |
| Tully's Coffee posted a second-quarter net loss from continuing operations of $1.2 million, a 45 percent improvement from the same quarter a year ago. Sales were $9.8 million, down 3 percent from a year ago. The Seattle-based coffee shop chain opened 12 stores in the quarter ended Sept. | ||
| 11/12/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||