Vermont Teddy Bear has over 100 bears to choose from and every Vermont Teddy Bear is delivered with free gourmet caramels and a gift card in our famous box. Vermont Teddy Bear Product Catalog available here!
Vermont Teddy Bear has over 100 bears to choose from and every Vermont Teddy Bear is delivered with free gourmet caramels and a gift card in our famous box. Vermont Teddy Bears are the ONLY bears handmade in America and guaranteed for life. Overnight delivery is guaranteed!
Bear Categories
Get Well Bears , Birthday Bears , New Baby Gifts & Pregnancy Gifts , Sweetest Day Gifts , Christmas Gifts , Chanukah Gifts , All Occasion Bears , Bears With Attitude , Classic & Romantic Teddy Bears , Occupational Bears , Bears for Her , Love, Anniversary, & Wedding Bears , Teddy Bears for Kids , Graduation Teddy Bears , Bears for Him , Retirement Bears , I'm Sorry/Apology , Sports and Hobbies Bears , Pride Bears , Thank You Gifts , Sympathy Bears , Religious Occasions , Sale! , Bears Under $50 , Patriotic Bears , Valentine's Day Gifts , Teddy Bear Outfits Sold Separately
Accessories
Chocolates and other Sweets , Flowers , Say it with a Sash , Send Your Message on a Pillow! , Outfit Accessories , Occupational Accessories , Sports Accessories , Religious Accessories , Miscellaneous Accessories , Gifts
Bear Wear for Humans
"Be Bear" Baseball Cap - Gray Green , "Be Bear" Baseball Cap - Orange , VTB Wind Breaker , VTB Stamp Sweatshirt , VTB Stamp T-shirt , Marigold Ted Head T-shirt , Ted Head T-shirt , "I Love Teddy Bears" Romper , VTB College T , Men's VTB Golf Shirt , Women's VTB Golf Shirt , VTB Factory T-Shirt - Adults , VTB Factory T-Shirt - Kids , VTB Logo T-shirt - Adult , VTB College Sweatshirt - Kids , VTB Canvas Bag , "Teddy Bears From Start to Finish" Book , VTB Puzzle , VTB Logo Ornament , Teddy Bear Necklace , Sterling Bear Paw Earrings About Vermont Teddy Bear
We've been making the best Bears in the Universe for over twenty years -- and every bear is lovingly designed, cut, sewn, stuffed, and stitched right here in Vermont.
The Vermont Teddy Bear Company is proud to be one of the top-rated stores on the Internet. We're a Yahoo! Shopping Five-Star Merchant, with a 98% positive rating. And as a BizRate.com Circle of Excellence Platinum Award-Winner, we have been recognized by online shoppers, year after year, as one of the "best of the best" online stores. Vermont Teddy Bear History
1981, John Sortino was playing with his son Graham and his collection of teddy bears. Surprised to see that every one of his son’s bears wore a tag identifying it as foreign made, Sortino was inspired to bring this American tradition back to its roots by handcrafting bears right here. His first bears, Bearcho, Buffy, Bearazar, and Fuzzy Wuzzy, were made in his wife’s sewing room and sold mostly to friends. By 1983, Sortino began to sell his bears from a peddler’s cart at an open-air market in Burlington, Vermont. It took four days to sell his first bear and a year to sell through 200.
One day, a customer gave him a terrific idea. A tourist visiting Burlington wanted a bear, but she wanted it mailed to her home. That gave Sortino the idea to package a teddy bear and add delivery service and other extras to go along with it. The Bear-gram® concept was born.
Shortly before Valentine’s Day in 1990, the Company took its Bear-gram concept and unusual marketing strategy to New York City. Advertisements featuring well-known local radio personalities endorsing Bear-gram gifts were placed on Z-100. The response was immediate and overwhelming. Calls for Bear-Grams flooded the Company’s three telephone lines and within the first two days, the Company reached its sales goal for the entire year!
Sales and success followed the Company as it grew from its humble beginnings to become a major competitor in the direct response gift delivery business. In 1992 Inc. Magazine recognized The Vermont Teddy Bear Company as the 80th fastest growing private Company in the United States. By 1993 the Company ranked 58th.
That same year, The Vermont Teddy Bear Company issued an IPO to help finance the design and construction of a facility specially suited for both teddy bear manufacturing and for showcasing its process from beginning cutting and sewing stages, to stuffing, and final back stitching procedures. In the summer of 1995, The Company moved into its new, 60,000 square foot, brightly-colored home situated on 57 acres in Vermont’s picturesque Champlain Valley. Soon after the move, the Company’s founder also moved on to start other entrepreneurial ventures.
Today, more than 150,000 people a year visit the Vermont Teddy Bear Company to find out how a teddy bear is made from scratch, and to make their own teddy bear in the Make A Friend for Life® Cubhouse or select one already made and dressed in the Bear Shop.
Today, the radio endorsements that launched the Company nineteen years ago can be heard in all 50 states and on more than 500 radio stations making The Vermont Teddy Bear Company a household name and a Vermont icon. Today, the Company handcrafts more than 350,000 bears for its Bear-gram gift delivery service and employs 274 year round staff. To keep up with growing demand, in 1998 the Company added a second sewing shift in its Shelburne factory. In November of 1999, the Company opened a satellite sewing and assembling facility in Newport, Vermont, where seventy skilled stitchers are now employed.
While the Company has experienced tremendous growth and change, the Bear-gram gift remains constant. Each includes a customized Vermont Teddy Bear dressed to suit a special life event, occasion or holiday, and optional embroidery service. The bear is placed in a colorful gift box complete with air hole and game printed on the inside, and enclosed with a personalized greeting and candy treat.
The Company believes it makes the best bears in the Universe because every bear is lovingly designed, cut, sewn, stuffed, and stitched in Vermont. The Bears are alive with personality and attitude and they help people connect in a fun, personal and meaningful way. Vermont Teddy Bear has been making the best bears in the universe for over twenty years. Each Vermont Teddy Bear is an American-made handcrafted teddy bear with a lifetime guarantee and arrives in a fun gift box with free gourmet chocolate and a free personalized gift card. We have over 100 bears to choose from -- gifts for all occasions, occupations, hobbies, holidays, and special events... making our Bear-gram the perfect gift idea.
Date Added to Directory: 9/18/2005, Current Content: 8/21/2008, Days in Directory: 1068
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