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Caribou shareholder offers public common stock

December 6, 2010

Caribou Coffee Company Inc.'s major shareholder, Caribou Holding Company Limited, an affiliate of Arcapita Bank B.S.C. (c), is offering for sale 5 million shares of the company's common stock in an underwritten public offering. The selling shareholder also has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to 750,000 additional shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. The company will not receive any proceeds from the offering.

Jefferies & Company Inc., Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated and William Blair & Company L.L.C. are acting as joint book-running managers in the offering and Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC is acting as co-manager.

A shelf registration statement (including a prospectus) relating to these securities was filed by the company and declared effective Nov. 19, 2010, by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A copy of the prospectus supplement and base prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained by contacting Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, Jefferies & Company Inc.