Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Ranked #9 on List of "Best Medium Companies to Work for in America"

WATERBURY, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2004--The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Great Place to Work(R) Institute, Inc. (GPTWI) announced that Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) has been ranked number 9 on their list of the 25 "Best Medium Companies to Work for in America." This list was unveiled yesterday in New Orleans, Louisiana at the SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition that annually attracts more than 10,000 human resource professionals.
This is the first year that small- and medium-sized companies in the U.S. have been eligible for this recognition. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters was selected from over 400 initial nominees for this prestigious award using the same selection methodology used for international "Best Companies to Work For" lists compiled by GPTWI for the European Union and many countries around the world. Companies were selected for inclusion on the "Best Medium Companies to Work for in America" list based on the results of the Trust Index(R) employee surveys, and the Great Place to Work Culture Audit(C), a two-part management questionnaire.

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