Vermont Distributors Fight Lawsuit
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Four fuel jobbers targeted in a class-action lawsuit for price fixing have asked a judge to dismiss it.The lawsuit, filed this past June by law firms Bailey Glasser LLP of...
View ArticleTastykake Unveils Tasty Holiday Additions
PHILADELPHIA -- This holiday season, snack brand Tastykake invites consumers to upgrade Santa's boring cookies with some tasty treats he will really enjoy via the launch of three new limited-edition...
View ArticleFDA Ruling a Win for Swedish Match
WASHINGTON -- Eight new snus products from Swedish Match will be allowed on the U.S. market following a landmark ruling by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.Following a rigorous, science-based...
View ArticleTristano to Head Up Technomic
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. -- Winsight LLC, a business-to-business media and information company specializing in the convenience-retailing, restaurant and noncommercial foodservice industries, has...
View ArticleKum & Go Earns National Customer Service Award
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Kum & Go convenience-store chain has been named the All-Star Service Organization of the Year 2015 by the National Customer Service Association. This annual award is...
View ArticleA Whole New World for AB InBev, SABMiller
LONDON & LEUVEN, Belgium -- With an expected, major antitrust hurdle out of the way, the two largest beer companies in the world—Anheuser-Busch InBev and SAB Miller—are moving forward with plans to...
View ArticleKroger's Chicago, Wisconsin Coup
CINCINNATI and MILWAUKEE -- Following a high-profile period when it purchased many of the old Dominick's grocery-store sites in and around Chicago, sparking a fresh-food battle in the market, Roundy's...
View ArticleThere’s a New Cook in the Kitchen: The Internet
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. --Your manager unlocks the convenience-store doors at 5 a.m. and discovers the ice machines are down. Your fryer has been dying a slow death—but you don’t realize it until 20...
View ArticleMarketers Not Getting a Charge Out of Electric Vehicles
BOSTON -- Notwithstanding the obvious challenge electric-vehicle (EV) charging poses to gasoline marketers, attendees of SIGMA's 2015 Annual Meeting in general aren’t in any rush to install the...
View ArticleAlon Expands Reduced-Emissions Fuel Offer
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --Alon Brands is expanding its participation in a program that provides carbon offsets for gasoline purchases to all of its convenience stores in the Albuquerque, N.M., market.In...
View Article7-Eleven Looking to Lockers to Load Omni-Channel Strategy
DALLAS --7-Eleven Inc. is making space for more lockers at a number of its North American stores, in a bet that growing e-commerce volumes will help drive Slurpee sales, reported The Wall Street...
View ArticleLynch Oil Implementing EMV Acceptance
BURLEY, Idaho -- Heartland Payment Systems, one of the nation’s largest payment processors, and The Pinnacle Corp., a leading supplier of technology automation solutions for retail convenience stores...
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QuickChek’s Graczyk Rings NASDAQ Opening Bell on Veterans Day
NEW YORK -- Bob Graczyk, QuickChek’s vice president of human resources, was among a select group of military veterans who rang the opening bell of the NASDAQ in Times Square on Veterans Day, November...
View ArticleHershey’s Kisses, Bars Among First With Simple Ingredients
HERSHEY, Pa. -- The Hershey Co. will launch Holiday Hershey’s Kisses Milk Chocolates and Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars, made with simple ingredients and no artificial flavor, nationwide this holiday...
View ArticleSam Susser Joins C-Store REIT's Board
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Sam L. Susser has joined the board of directors of National Retail Properties Inc., a real-estate investment trust (REIT) with a portfolio of tenants that includes nearly 200...
View ArticleConvenience Store Products Hot 100 Countdown 2015: Nos. 40-31
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. -- Every year, Convenience Store Products tallies up retailer requests received for information on products found in the magazine (via reader service card). This year, the list,...
View ArticleMinute Maid Sparkling to Replace Fruitwater
ATLANTA -- During the NACS Show in October, Coca-Cola Co. unveiled a new, on-trend take on sparkling water: Minute Maid Sparkling.With the strong branding and healthy-halo of Minute Maid and the...
View ArticleGuest Column: Where’s the Pressure on Gas Prices?
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Oil prices fell to their lowest level in nearly three months this week as prices succumb to a trifecta of downward pressure: Petroleum inventories remain near record levels, talk...
View ArticleZizold Offers Insights on Miami Sale
MIAMI -- Miami is hot again, and not just in the muggy summer months, but economically and as a market for convenience-store operators. That’s what Arturo Zizold and his colleagues at Victory Petroleum...
View ArticleThe Three Key Consumer Need States at Checkout
CHICAGO -- The retail landscape continues to change and the places where people make purchases are more varied than ever before. Wrigley and Mars Chocolate, two business units of Mars Inc., have a...
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