It all started from a cup of good coffee.
Back in 1980, Green Mountain's founder and former Chief Executive Officer Bob Stiller decided to buy into a coffee shop in Waitsfield, Vermont after being served a great cup of coffee. The company was founded a year later as a small café that served premium coffee.
It soon began distributing coffee to restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores and specialty food stores primarily in the northeastern U.S. In 1993, Green Mountain went public at $10 a share.