>Also, their principal buyer - the real person to target, but I don't
have a name-
> is apparently unmoved and unsympathetic to this issue.

When I worked for Starbucks two years ago, their principal buyer was Dave
Olsen (Olson? I think Olsen). Starbucks claimed to be sympathetic to the
local ecology, economy and people in the regions where they buy coffee,
but I have doubts if this is really so.

=================
Cliff Drake
Ballard, WA
Birder at Juno.com


On Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:39:28 -0800 (PST) Thomas Love <tlove at linfield.edu>
writes:
>The person at Starbucks to deluge with mail about the benefits of
>tropical
>montane forest-mimicking plantations of "shade coffee" vs. the
>negatives
>of open fields of monocultural "sun coffee" is NOT the CEO Howard
>Schultz,
>but Pres. Orin Smith. You might want to consider writing again.
>Also,
>their principal buyer - the real person to target, but I don't have a
>name
>- is apparently unmoved and unsympathetic to this issue. This
>worthwhile
>effort is going to be a long, hard, grassroots, consumer-driven one.
>
>
>Tom Love
>Dept. Soc/Anth
>Linfield College
>McMinnville, OR 97128
>tlove at linfield.edu
>