The Hershey Co. announced it will acquire high-growth, better-for-you (BFY) confectionery brand Lily’s. Lily’s will add a key better-for-you confection brand to Hershey’s portfolio of iconic chocolate and candy favorites. “Hershey is focused on developing a BFY confection portfolio that offers a variety of choices to meet the evolving needs of our consumers,” said Hershey…
Travel Plans Increase, As Does Price of Gas
Americans are conflicted about summer travel this year. With more people vaccinated and the economy opening, 57 percent of Americans plan to take at least one road trip this summer, up substantially from 2020’s 31 percent, according to GasBuddy’s annual summer travel survey. The biggest roadblock? High gas prices. The national average price of gasoline…
Love’s Kicks Off Summer Drive Promo
Love’s Travel Stops is now giving customers the chance to save money on food, snacks and drinks this summer with its Summer Drive deals. Customers can save $1 or more on today’s most popular items, including Love’s-branded food and drinks, through June 30. The company based the deals off of customer habits to provide the…
Parkland Releases Strong First Quarter Numbers
Parkland Corp., based in Calgary, Alberta, recently announced its financial and operating results for the first quarter of 2021, which ended March 31. “We delivered a strong start to the year and have high confidence in our 2021 outlook,” said Bob Espey, Parkland president and CEO. “In addition to strong underlying business performance, we progressed…
FDA Releases List of Deemed New Tobacco Products
On May 20, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted the list of deemed new tobacco products for which a premarket application was submitted to FDA via the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) pathway by Sept. 9, 2020. The list includes over 6 million products. In February, FDA posted the list of deemed…
New Track My Order Tool Helps Core-Mark Customers With Delivery Logistics
Core-Mark International has made its innovative delivery management tool, Track My Order, available to all of the company’s 40,000 retail customers across the U.S. and Canada. Introduced in early 2020 in select Core-Mark divisions, the free Track My Order application enables retailers to receive real-time updates on delivery status, either by e-mail or text. It…
COVID and Consumer Behavior Kicks Off NAG/YEO Spring Leadership Series
The National Advisory Group and Young Executives Organization Spring Leadership Series kicked off May 19 with “How Consumer Behavior Has Changed During COVID,” a presentation from Casey Taylor, vice president of client success for market analyst and consulting firm CivicScience. Taylor outlined the changes wrought by a year and a half of pandemic lockdowns and…
ADD Systems Promotes Katsigiannis to Lead Support Teams
ADD Systems – also known as Advanced Digital Data Inc. – introduced Andy Katsigiannis as its new director of customer support and hardware operations. Katsigiannis joined the supplier of software solutions to the convenience store and energy distribution industries in 2002 as a member of the IT department on his way to rising to IT…
GPM’s Parent ARKO Releases Q1 Financials
Richmond, Va.-based ARKO Corp., the seventh-largest convenience store chain in the U.S., announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021. The company operates or supplies fuel to approximately 2,950 locations in 33 states and Washington, D.C., comprised of approximately 1,325 company-operated stores and approximately 1,625 dealer sites to which it supplies fuel.…
7-Eleven Inks Agreements to Sell 293 Stores
7-Eleven Inc. announced this week that it has signed definitive agreements to sell 293 Speedway and 7-Eleven stores to three separate buyers. This follows the completion of 7-Eleven’s acquisition of Speedway from Marathon Petroleum Corp. on May 14. In March, 7-Eleven signed a definitive agreement to sell 124 Speedway and 7-Eleven sites in the Midwest,…