Green Mountain wins wellness award

Waterbury, VT-based Green Mountain Coffee Inc. has received a Worksite Wellness Program Recognition Award. The 10-year-old award recognizes large and small businesses, school work sites, and municipalities for efforts they have undertaken to promote wellness within their organizations, using criteria established by Vermont wellness directors and the National Institutes of Health.

Green Mountain’s wellness program, Personal Priorities, was established in 1998 as part of the company’s safety program known as "Safety $ense." An employee wellness team was created that focuses on wellness issues at the workplace and beyond.

For more information, contact: Green Mountain Coffee Inc., 33 Coffee Lane, Waterbury, VT 05676-1529. Telephone: (800) 545-2326. Fax: (802) 244-5436. Web site: www.GMCR.com.