Still, the labor organization effort faces challenges, including reaching collective bargaining agreements at newly unionized stores. “We don’t believe that a third party should lead our people,” he said in June. Schultz - who has pushed Starbucks to take progressive stands on issues like same-sex marriage and race relations, drawing criticism from conservatives - has said he opposes unions among the company’s employees. Last month, it raised wages for baristas except those at unionized stores, saying workers there needed to collectively bargain with management. The company has denied those claims, though it continues to resist unionization efforts. Labor organizers and the National Labor Relations Board have accused Starbucks of illegally interfering with unionization drives and retaliating by closing stores and firing pro-union workers. Since December, Starbucks has gone from no unions at its roughly 9,000 company-owned stores in the United States to 230 as of Monday. The coffee chain has become a focal point for a resurgent unionization movement over the past year, as workers press for higher pay and better working conditions.
Schultz spoke of the company’s early progress in reinventing itself - a task that will now fall to Mr. In Starbucks’s most recent earnings report, in August, Mr. Schultz will remain on the company’s board as well. Schultz is expected to remain the company’s interim chief executive until April, and then become an adviser to Mr. Schultz said, adding that his background in technology and supply chains would be invaluable to the company. “He’s a true operator and has the DNA of an entrepreneur,” Mr. It was that breadth of experience across industries and international borders that drew Starbucks to Mr. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The New York Times “He’s a true operator and has the DNA of an entrepreneur,” Howard Schultz said of Mr. In 2012, he moved to PepsiCo, where he rose through the ranks, overseeing operations in Latin America, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, and becoming chief commercial officer. He then joined the consulting giant McKinsey & Company, eventually becoming a senior partner. Narasimhan moved to the United States in 1991 to attend the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. A former senior PepsiCo executive, he has most recently led Reckitt Benckiser, the British conglomerate that makes Lysol disinfectant and Durex condoms.īorn in Pune, India, Mr. Narasimhan, 55, will be thrust into one of the world’s most prominent corporate leadership roles, overseeing roughly 35,000 stores and 383,000 employees globally. “Laxman first and foremost is a true servant leader.” “We were looking for somebody that was a true servant leader that had a deep sense of humility,” Mr. Narasimhan will take over in April from Howard Schultz, Starbucks’s longtime leader, who took back the reins of the company last April after Kevin Johnson stepped down as chief executive.
Starbucks has hired Laxman Narasimhan as its next chief executive, the company announced on Thursday, putting him in charge of the world’s largest coffee chain as it grapples with a growing unionization movement, rising inflation and losses in China.
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