Forbes lauds Green Mountain Coffee

Green Mountain Coffee has been named one of Forbes magazine’s 200 best small companies in the country for a third year in a row. Green Mountain Coffee was ranked sixty-second overall this year. The company was 27th in terms of its five-year average return on equity, and thirteenth by five-year earnings per share growth. Companies must have sales between $500-$600 million to make it onto the list. Last year the specialty coffee maker reported sales of $95.6 million, a 14% increase from the year before.