Scripto® introduces the new SpectraTM lighters to it’s everyday line of popular disposable cigarette lighters. The new SpectraTM lighters feature visible fuel supply through clear lighter barrels. The array of fuel colors are available in purple, sapphire, green, blue and red. SpectraTM lighters will begin shipping in January 2010. They are available in 50-ct. display-a-tray,…
Broaster
Broaster will exhibit its three no-fee licensed food programs: Genuine Broaster Chicken®, Broaster® Recipe Express, and Broaster® To Go Authentic Pizza. The firm also manufactures pressure fryers, ventless fryers, and other foodservice equipment; blends a complete line of marinades and breadings; and markets an expanding variety of quality frozen foods. For details visit www.broaster.com or…
Anheuser-Busch
Bud Light Golden Wheat is a premium light, unfiltered wheat beer brewed with wheat malt, coriander and citrus peels – for the superior drinkability of Bud Light. A medium-bodied brew available Oct. 5, Bud Light Golden Wheat is slightly sweet on first sip which gives way to a refreshingly tart, citrus finish. Bud Light Golden…
Job Trending and Recruiting in the C-Store Sector
By George Benson Executive recruiting in the convenience store trade channel is a unique undertaking reserved for the brave at heart. Beyond the demand for process excellence and detail, there is a desire from hiring authorities that the candidates presented for consideration be million dollar producers in a multitude of varying disciplines. This is not…
Sheetz Opens New Ohio Store
Sheetz Inc. continues to grow in the Canton, Ohio area with a new store opening today in North Canton at 1415 Pittsburg Avenue. The store officially opened today, Sept. 30, following an afternoon grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting ceremony this afternoon. To celebrate Sheetz will make a donation to the Character Counts…
Nat Sherman Co. Lists FDA Compliant Products
Nat Sherman Co. issued a letter to retailers outlining which products are still legal to sell after the new FDA ban on flavored cigarettes, except for regular and menthol varieties. The company’s clove and mint style brands were affected by the ruling. “Concerning our ‘Mint’ brands, while many of our competitors use a…
Operation Rollback Makes Progress
Retailer efforts against an astronomical increase in registration fees for stores selling tobacco are making strides in New York. The fee increase came down earlier this year, upping the registration fee for a retailer from $100 per store for the right to sell tobacco products to $1,000, $2,500 or even $5,000 per store…
Ads Defend HFCS
The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) launched a new million dollar ad campaign designed to put an end to what it calls “the blatant inaccuracies surrounding the much-maligned ingredient: high fructose corn syrup.” The campaign will communicate to the public that high fructose corn syrup is nutritionally the same as sweeteners…
Smokeless Sales Stay Strong
Sorting through all of the dynamics at work in the smokeless tobacco category is proving a complex calculation for convenience store operators and consumers alike. For example: retail prices rose with the April 1 passage of an increase to the Federal Excise Tobacco (FET) tax to fund an expansion of SCHIP, the State Children’s Health…
Kraft Bides Its Time In Cadbury Bid
Three weeks after Cadbury, the world’s second largest confectionery group, rejected a 10.2 billion pound ($16.7 billion) approach by Kraft, North America’s biggest food group, a UK Takeover Panel is expected to require Kraft to make a firm offer or walk away for six months, Reuters reported. “The indications are that the UK…