Good News
Bears of Hope
Thursday, May 8th, 2008I am a 14 month breast cancer survivor and was one of the recipients of the Stowe Bear of Hope during the Stowe Weekend of Hope. I just wanted to thank your company for being so generous and caring. I had been to the Teddy Bear Factory about 10 years ago when I was on [...]
Recycling Pays Forward and Back
Thursday, October 25th, 2007OK, a raise of hands: How many of you are willing to help the environment and recycle?
Yup, me too. That goes double, triple, quadruple for members of the Green Team here at Vermont Teddy Bear. In addition to their regular jobs, the Green Team crew work year round to promote and put into practice all [...]
Scary Bear’s-Eye-View Ends Well
Thursday, October 11th, 2007You’re a black bear. You’re on the trail of something tasty, just following your instincts, when you suddenly realize that you’ve wandered onto something like a long, strange rock, and now there are all these scary creatures charging at you from ahead and behind. What do you do?
What one bear did, on a Saturday afternoon [...]
Bake Sale Shares the Honey 2
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Maybe we should just get out of the gift delivery biz and do bake sales 24/7. I mean, I was just floored by the amount and variety of food available at yesterday’s bake sale benefitting United Way of Chittenden County.
In addition to the complement of cookies, pastries, muffins, and breads, the Bear Crew pushed the [...]
Bake Sale Shares the Honey
Monday, October 8th, 2007(Post title I wanted to go with but changed my mind at the last minute: “Bake Sale Raises Dough.”)
As a follow-up to last Thursday’s bake sale fundraiser for United Way of Chittenden County, here’s an update from Jessica Proctor, taken from an email she sent to the Bear Crew. “The bake sale was a HUGE [...]
Extreme Bocce Benefit Tournament 2007
Monday, September 24th, 2007You couldn’t have asked for a nicer day to hold the 2007 Extreme Bocce Benefit Tournament of Vermont, Friday, September 21. As the mercury crept into the low 80’s, the Bear Crew met the challenge, hosting the Tournament on the grounds of the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory here in Shelburne…and throwin’ ’round some mad [...]
VTB Wins BizRate Award
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007BizRate’s a comparison shopping engine, sort of a cyber-mall on steroids. It also conducts shopper surveys for participating merchants, and each year it publishes a list of the merchants that have “consistently achieved outstanding ratings in the following areas: Ease of Site Use, On-Time Delivery, Overall Satisfaction, Customer Support, Product Met Expectations and Likely [...]