Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. owns and operates coffeehouses. The company operates in three segments: Retail, Commercial, and Franchise. The Retail segment offers premium coffee and espresso-based beverages, food, specialty teas, whole bean coffee, branded merchandise, and related products. The Commercial segment sells whole bean and ground coffee to grocery stores, mass merchandisers, club stores, office coffee and foodservice providers, hotels, entertainment venues, and on-line customers. This segment also sells blended coffees and licenses its Caribou Coffee brand to Keurig, Inc. for sale and use in its K-Cup single serve line of business. The Franchise segment franchises its brand to partners to operate Caribou Coffee branded coffeehouses in domestic and international markets, as well as sells Caribou Coffee branded products to partners for resale in these franchised locations. As of September 30, 2012, it had 610 coffeehouses, including 202 franchised locations, in 22 states, the District of Columbia, as well as in 10 international markets. Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.