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Howard Schultz concerns over the global economic crisis, Schultz said that "the place that concerns us the most is western Europe, and specifically the UK. The UK is in a spiral", expressing concern with the levels of unemployment and consumer confidence in the United Kingdom. Lord Mandelson, then-British Business Secretary, responded saying that the United Kingdom was "not spiralling, although I've noticed Starbucks is in a great deal of trouble", and suggesting that Schultz was projecting his own company's trouble in the United Kingdom onto the wider national economy. An official comment from Starbucks read that "It is a difficult economic situation
Howard Schultz Howard Schultz Howard Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman. He was the CEO of Starbucks in 1986–2000 and again in 2008–2017, as well as its executive chairman from 2017 to 2018. He is a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. He was a member of the Board of Directors at Square, Inc. In 1998, Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, with Dan Levitan. In 2016, "Forbes" magazine ranked Schultz as the 232nd richest person in the United States, with a net worth of $3.1 billion as of April 2017. On December 1, 2016, Schultz announced his resignation