December 21, 2012 Dear Fellow Shareholders:Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. • December 21st, 2012 • Retail-eating & drinking places
We are pleased to inform you that Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. (the “Company” or “Caribou Coffee”), JAB Beech Inc., a Delaware corporation (“JAB”), and Pine Merger Sub, Inc., a recently-formed Minnesota corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of JAB (“Purchaser”), have entered into a definitive merger agreement that provides for JAB’s acquisition of the Company.
