CEO pay watch: Mike Tattersfield, Caribou president, CEO

April 1, 2010 at 3:40AM

CEO PAY WATCH CARIBOU COFFEE CO. INC.

Mike Tattersfield, president, CEO Total compensation: $1,103,677 for the year ended Dec. 31

Salary: $441,346

Non-equity incentive pay: $662,019

Other compensation: $312

Total return to shareholders: 467.6 percent

Note: Tattersfield joined Caribou as CEO in August 2008. In his first full year he took home $1.1 million.

The compensation committee also granted Tattersfield, 150,000 shares of restricted stock worth $429,000 as a long-term compensation award.

Tattersfield is the third Caribou CEO in three years. He quickly made changes, hiring new managers (a new CFO and SVP of Commercial Business), closing some stores and adding new products.

A recent rebranding includes a new logo, cups, napkins and store decor.

Sales were $262.5 million in 2009, up 3.4 percent from 2008, and earnings were $5.1 million, after a $16.8 million loss in 2008. Adjusted EBITDA used to calculate annual bonus was $21.3 million up from the previous year's $11.6 million.

The stock also turned from $1.36 on Dec. 31, 2008, to $7.72 at the end of the year. It closed Wednesday at $6.62.

PATRICK KENNEDY

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