Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR)

Stock Ownership/Holding Requirements

The Committee has discussed ownership and holding requirements for the named executive officers. Since all executives currently have a substantial number of stock options that they own or are holding but that remain unexercised, the Committee felt that it was unnecessary to impose an ownership or holding requirement at this time. The Committee will continue to revisit this policy on an annual basis. Each year, the Committee reviews its director compensation against market practice based upon data provided to it by Mercer. The Company has an ownership policy for directors which requires stock holdings valued at a minimum of three times the annual retainer paid to directors for their service, which is currently $30,000. Directors have three years to obtain this minimum holding level. The Compensation and Organization Development Committee believes this policy further aligns the interests of the board of directors with the interests of the Company’s stockholders.

The following tables provide information concerning compensation for the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, the three other most highly-paid executive officers as of September 27, 2008 and two individuals who would have been among our top three compensated executive officers but for the fact that they no longer were an executive officer at the end of the fiscal year. We refer to these individuals collectively as our “named executives”.

Stock Ownership/Holding Requirements

The Compensation and Organizational Development Committee has discussed ownership and holding requirements for the named executive officers. Since all executives currently have a substantial number of stock options that they own or are holding but that remain unexercised, the Compensation and Organizational Development Committee felt that it was unnecessary to impose an ownership or holding requirement at this time. The Compensation and Organizational Development Committee will continue to revisit this policy on an annual

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basis. The Company has adopted an ownership policy for directors which requires stock holdings valued at a minimum of three times the annual retainer paid to directors for their service, which is currently $24,000. Directors have four years to obtain this minimum holding level. The Compensation and Organization Development Committee believe this policy further aligns the interests of the Board with the interests of the Company’s stockholders.