Vermont Teddy: Bears for Bucks Aug 26, 2009
Vermont Teddy Bear has launched a program called "Bears for Bucks". Customers can send in their old worn out bears, and get 20-dollars off the price of a brand new bear. (WCAX.com, VT)
Burliss: Back to my future Jul 22, 2009
His business grew into the famed Vermont Teddy Bear Company. And little did we know our favorite pints of Heathbar Crunch sold only at the Mobil station would boom into an empire known as Ben & Jerry s.. (Boxford Tri Town Transcript, MA)
Vermont Teddy Bear shifts its focus to kids Jul 19, 2009
But for much of the history of Vermont Teddy Bear, the company spent its efforts targeting the listeners of the radio shock jock ... In recent years, the strategy failed miserably and Vermont Teddy Bear teetered on the brink of extinction: The volume of sales plunged 50 percent and one of its two factories took the entire summer off because of the falloff in orders ... Now, with a new leader at the helm - a former executive at Dunkin Donuts and T.J. Maxx - Vermont Teddy Bear is taking aim at a... (Boston Globe)
Teddy Bear Company Gets New CEO Mar 3, 2009
(March 2, 2009)--Vermont Teddy Bear Co. is turning to a veteran marketing executive for its top job ... Vermont Teddy Bear board chairman Bob Crowley said Gilbert, 52, is a natural choice to lead the company's next chapter ... Vermont Teddy Bear, which is a direct-to-consumer company, announced in January that it was laying off 35 people and closing a retail store to cope with the economic downturn. (KWTX.com, TX)
