Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Tops List of 100 Best Corporate Citizens, Again

(CSRwire) WATERBURY, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2007--For the second year in a row, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) has been ranked No. 1 on the list of "100 Best Corporate Citizens," now published by CRO magazine. This is the fifth consecutive year that Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has appeared on the prestigious list, the only time a company has been awarded the top spot for two years running, and the only company other than IBM that has been ranked first twice.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has steadily risen from No. 8 in 2003, to No. 5 in 2004, No. 2 in 2005, and No. 1 last year. The specialty coffee roaster is in good company on this year's list, sharing honors with businesses such as Advanced Micro Devices (#2), IBM (#6), The Timberland Company (#8) and Starbucks Corporation (#9).

Now in its 8th year, the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list was developed by Business Ethics magazine, which was incorporated last year into The CRO, a membership organization for Corporate Responsibility Officers. The "100 Best" list is drawn from more than 1,100 of the largest U.S. publicly held companies and identifies those that excel at serving a variety of stakeholders. Firms are ranked on performance in eight stakeholder categories: shareholders, governance, community, diversity, employees, environment, human rights and product.

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