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STARBUCKS APPLDS SUPREME COURT’S RULG ON MARRIAGE EQUALY JUNE 26, 2015 • 2 M READSHARESHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON TWTERSHARE ON LKEDINSHARE EMAILBEG OPEN, CLIVE AND FORWARD-THKG IS AT THE RE OF WHAT STARBUCKS IS ABOUT. STARBUCKS HAS BEEN A LONGTIME ADVOTE FOR THE LGBT MUNY AND MARRIAGE EQUALY. THE PANY FILED AN AMIC BRIEF TO THE SUPREME COURT SE CHALLENGG THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT 2013 AND SIGNED ONTO THE PEOPLE’S BRIEF EARLIER THIS YEAR. THE PANY’S MOST VOL STATEMENT ON DIVERSY AND EQUALY ME DURG A SPONTANEO EXCHANGE AT THE 2013 STARBUCKS ANNUAL MEETG OF SHAREHOLRS. DURG THE QUTN AND ANSWER PORTN OF THE MEETG, A STOCKHOLR VOICED HIS VIEW THAT THE PANY HAD LOST CTOMERS BEE OF S SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE.“NOT EVERY CISN IS AN ENOMIC CISN,” RPOND HOWARD SCHULTZ, STARBUCKS CHAIRMAN, AND CEO. “THE LENS WHICH WE ARE MAKG THAT CISN IS THROUGH THE LENS OF OUR PEOPLE.”CHEERS AND APPLSE TERPTED SCHULTZ, WHO NTUED, “IF YOU FEEL, RPECTFULLY, THAT YOU N GET A HIGHER RETURN THAN THE 38% YOU GOT LAST YEAR, ’S A EE UNTRY. YOU N SELL YOUR SHAR STARBUCKS AND BUY SHAR ANOTHER PANY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.”MONTHS LATER, OCTOBER OF 2013, STARBUCKS ADD VERAGE OF TRANSGENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY TO THE PANY’S HEALTH BENEFS. IT HAD ALREADY VERED PRCRIPTN DGS FOR HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY AND MENTAL HEALTH RE. IN 2014, A YEAR LATER, STARBUCKS REMOVED THE FANCIAL P ON SURGERY BENEFS.IN JUNE OF 2014, STARBUCKS FLEW THE PRI FLAG ATOP S SEATTLE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND EARLIER THIS WEEK RAISED THE FLAG AGA.STARBUCKS RECEIVED A 100 ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN’S 2015 CORPORATE EQUALY INX, A NATNAL BENCHMARKG TOOL ON RPORATE POLICI AND PRACTIC PERTENT TO LGBT EMPLOYE. HRC ALSO RATED STARBUCKS AS ONE OF THE “BT PLAC TO WORK FOR LGBT EQUALY.” SHARE THIS ARTICLESHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON TWTERSHARE ON LKEDINSHARE EMAILREAD MORESTARBUCKS MILARY COMMMENT BY THE NUMBERS
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