On Wednesday, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ:GMCR) reported its first quarter earnings and discussed the following topics in its conference call. Take a look.

Filterfresh

Scott Van Winkle – Canaccord Genuity asked: Congrats on the great brewer shipment number this quarter and a good quarter overall. I think when you look through the numbers and through this last quarter, I guess the only thing negative people are going to question this time is the second quarter guidance at least relative to Street expectations.

Can you give us a little more indication of what kind of contribution Filterfresh had made in these winter quarters? On that other income line, can you give us an indication of what that might look like? Are you assuming any negative impact from the warm winter weather we’re seeing this year?

Frances Rathke – CFO responded: In terms of the Filterfresh, last year it contributed approximately $91 million in revenue.That was over the three quarters we owned them last year, so it’s pretty ratable business quarter-by-quarter.

We don’t disclose specifically their earnings, but it’s in line with our OCS business and I think relative to the guidance for the second quarter as we said we’re anniversarying the Van Houtte acquisition; this lowers our growth rate on the top line.

In addition, we noted the decrease from the growth rate we experienced this past quarter that was so strong coming down a bit in the second quarter guidance because of the fact that we’re anniversarying the first price increase we took last year. Then we just discussed Filterfresh.

We believe we had outstanding poor shipment growth rate this past holiday quarter as well as extremely strong portion pack sales. That’s the downward shift going from 102 percent actual growth rate in first quarter down to our guidance for next quarter of 45 to 50.

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