Starbucks is an American global coffee company founded in 1987 in Seattle. It has over 20,000 stores worldwide and aims to provide high quality coffee and customer service. Starbucks' objectives are to ensure customer satisfaction through variety, affordability, meeting expectations, and providing perfectly made coffee. Its USPs include positioning as a premium brand through quality, innovation, and service. Marketing strategies focus on personal touch, word-of-mouth, store clusters, value adds, and offers. When sales fell short of targets in 2014, Starbucks launched new products and worked to meet revised sales goals through its online and retail channels.