On Oct. 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued marketing granted orders to U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC (USSTC) for four oral tobacco products under the brand name of Verve. The four products are: Verve Discs Blue Mint, Verve Discs Green Mint, Verve Chews Blue Mint and Verve Chews Green Mint. After FDA’s…
Kum & Go Adds Brian Beckett as Chief Financial Officer
Kum & Go is expanding its senior leadership team with the addition of Brian Beckett as the company’s new chief financial officer. An experienced senior financial leader, Beckett has more than 15 years of experience driving bottom-line performance initiatives and leading active, engaged teams. He will report to CEO Tanner Krause. Beckett succeeds Erin Kuhl,…
Thorntons Expands in the Chicago Market
Thorntons opened the doors to its newest Chicagoland store—and its first in the Bolingbrook, Ill., community. The company now operates a total of 84 stores in Illinois, 64 of which are in Chicagoland. This new pump and go location offers a variety of features to serve on-the-go customers, including: * Self-checkout to drive a faster…
GPM Welcomes New Senior Category Manager
ARKO Corp.’s convenience store subsidiary GPM Investments announced the addition of six-year category management veteran Justin Odom to its team. Odom will take on duties as a senior category manager. Prior to joining GPM, Odom spent more than four years as an associate category manager and category manager at 7-Eleven Inc., where he was responsible…
MAPCO Opens Nashville Flagship Store
MAPCO opened its new flagship location at 4671 Trousdale Drive, serving the Nashville, Tenn., community. The new 5,600-square-foot store — designed to offer a better break for guests with its efficient layout and modern design — is accessible from I-65 North, which takes residents right into the heart of Music City. MAPCO executives and community…
Kum & Go Launches New Made-to-Order Menu in Nebraska
Kum & Go is launching its new fresh food menu at stores in Omaha, Neb. and the surrounding metro area. The new made-to-order menu, which launched in Little Rock, Ark.-area stores this summer, includes grain bowls, premium meat and vegetables layered on fresh baked bread, blended smoothies, cold brew frappés, and more. “Inspired by our…
7-Eleven Collaborates With Paqui and Liquid Death for New ‘One Slice Challenge’
Participating 7-Eleven stores are offering the One Slice Challenge while supplies last. Those brave enough to participate will choose to eat one slice of any 7-Eleven pizza topped with 7-Eleven’s proprietary 11-Pepper Sauce, a two-ounce bag of Paqui Haunted Ghost Pepper chips and a can of Liquid Death Mountain Water. 7-Eleven is asking fans to…
Sound Payments Expands Petroleum Industry Team
Petroleum industry payments solution provider Sound Payments welcomed two additional industry experts to the petroleum team to accommodate continued growth and its plans to offer more technology solutions in the petroleum industry beyond EMV at the pump. “We see lots of opportunities to help stations nationwide with better, more affordable technology solutions as part of…
Shopper Platform NewsBreak Is Now Shep Digital Solutions
Digital shopper marketing platform NewsBreak Media Networks is now Shep Digital Solutions. The platform serves the fuel and convenience retail industry, converting fuel-only customers to multi-product purchasers. The new name and branding, the company said in a statement, better represents its full range of customizable digital merchandising services for convenience stores and other retail businesses.…
Casey’s Expands Partnership With IRI to Launch New Collaboration Portal
Casey’s and IRI, a fast-growing global technology company specializing in innovative solutions and services for consumer, retail and media companies, announced they are expanding their point-of-sale data sharing partnership to include frequent shopper loyalty program data from Casey’s Rewards’ over 4 million members. Casey’s POS and loyalty data will be integrated in a new collaboration…