“The Vermont Teddy Bear Story,” Vermont Teddy Bear Company, accessed March 24, 2012, “Vermont Teddy Bear Company,”, accessed March 24, 2012, Today, the Vermont Teddy Bear Company produces about 300,000 bears a year. The sale of his first bear took 4 days, and it took 1 year to sell 200 bears. By 1983, John was selling his bears from a gift cart at an open-air market in Burlington, Vermont. Bearcho was soon followed by Buffy, Bearazar, and Fuzzy Wuzzy, all made in his wife’s sewing room. John then went on to make others, falling in love with the idea of making them by hand. This inspired John to make a teddy bear for Graham-named Bearcho. He was playing with his young son, Graham, and noticed that none of Graham’s 38 stuffed animals was made in the United States. In 1980, John Sortino got the idea for making teddy bears. Source: Used with permission from Vermont Teddy Bear.
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