Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is a publicly traded brand of coffee based at Waterbury in the U.S. state of Vermont. The brand specializes in organic, fair trade, and specialty gourmet coffees. Keurig is a wholly owned subsidiary of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., and sells many of their coffee varieties as K-Cups. In June 2009, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters had annual revenue exceeding $715 million.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters was ranked #1 in "The Best Corporate Citizens" in 2006 and 2007.
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“Like the bee that now is blown,
Honey-heavy on my hand,
From his toppling tansy-throne
In the green tempestuous land—”
—Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)