10 Most Liberal Companies In The US

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8. Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX)

Market Cap: $77 billion

Aside from many sustainability projects that the company supports and its own commitments to reduce its environmental footprint, Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX)’s CEO Howard Schultz managed to anger conservatives on several occasions over the years. In March 2013, Schultz suggested to a shareholder that he could sell his shares and go somewhere else, when the shareholder told him that Starbucks’ support of gay marriage led to a decline in customers after the National Organization for Marriage called for boycotting the chain. Schultz also said that the company is performing well and the decision to support same-sex marriage was not an economic one and that Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) wants to “embrace diversity.” Later that year, Schultz released a letter in which the company requested customers not to bring their guns to Starbucks’ stores.

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Copyright: buschmen / 123RF Stock Photo

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