These amounts are not in accordance with, or an alternative to, GAAP.
The Company’s management believes that these measures provide investors with transparency by helping illustrate the underlying financial and business trends relating to the Company’s results of operations and financial condition and comparability between current and prior periods.
Management uses the measures to establish and monitor budgets and operational goals and to evaluate the performance of the Company. Please see the “GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliation” table that accompanies this document for a full reconciliation of the Company’s GAAP to non-GAAP results.
Conference Call and Webcast
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. will be discussing these financial results with analysts and investors in a conference call and live webcast available via the Internet at 5:00 p.m. ET today, February 5, 2014.
The call is accessible via live webcast from the events section of the Investor Relations portion of the Company’s website at http://investor.gmcr.com/events.cfm.
The Company archives the latest conference call for a period of time. A replay of the conference call also will be available by telephone at (719) 325-4835, passcode 9595571 from 9:00 p.m. ET on February 5, 2014 through 9:00 p.m. ET on Monday, February 10, 2014.