Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Announces Closing of Common Stock Offering (GMCR)

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., GMCR, a leader in specialty coffee and coffeemakers, announced today that is has closed its underwritten public offering of 9,479,544 shares of its common stock, which includes 1,290,000 shares purchased by the underwriters pursuant to an overallotment option. Certain stockholders also sold an aggregate of 410,456 shares of common stock in the offering. On May 11, 2011, the Company also completed a sale of 608,342 shares of its common stock to Luigi Lavazza S.p.A., pursuant to the Common Stock Purchase Agreement entered into between the Company and Lavazza on May 6, 2011, which was filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company on May 6, 2011.