Rutter’s topped the York Sunday News’ 2008 “Best of York” rankings in six categories, beating out a number of other national brands, the company said. Rutter’s took first place in the six categories evaluated by its hometown newspaper, including breakfast, coffee, deli/sub/sandwich, fast food, lunch and milk. York, Pa.-based Rutter’s bested the likes of Cracker [...]
Uni-Marts LLC, operator of 283 convenience stores in Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio, has voluntarily filed bankruptcy, but in the meantime will continue operating most of its stores without interruption. The move, however, will result in closure of at least 45 Uni-Marts stores. The company and six subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions this week under Chapter [...]
West Coast retailer Fresh & Easy said it added 23 new self-branded kitchen products to its lineup this week, all of which were developed by Fresh & Easy Chef Mike Ainslie. The company also introduced product No. 3 million to stores this week: a 17-ounce package of Fresh & Easy Mashed Potatoes made using only [...]
CHS Inc. Executive Vice President and COO Leon Westbrock drafted a letter this week criticizing the Lieberman-Warner Bill pending in the U.S. Senate. “Next week the U.S. Senate may vote on the Lieberman-Warner bill which is intended to address greenhouse gas issues through a complex program of allowances targeted at our nation’s key industries,” Westbrock [...]
C-store chain Zarco 66, of Kansas, is taking its forward-thinking ecological practices a step further by planning green technologies such as the installation of a small-scale wind turbine atop its fuel island canopy, the Lawrence Journal reported. Lawrence City Commissioners gave tentative approval to Zarco 66 President Scott Zaremba’s plans to add a small-scale wind [...]
Altria Group Inc. told shareholders this week that it’s looking to bolster its OTP business as domestic cigarette sales continue to decline, a decision also motivated by concerns about health, smoking bans and price increases, the Associated Press reported. Altria CEO Michael Szymanczyk told shareholders that while Altria will still be able to build market [...]
An investment group in Oklahoma City, Okla., has purchased the Anderson Travel Plaza in that town, giving the group free reign on almost 11 acres complete with two convenience stores, a trucker’s lounge, a 120-seat full-service restaurant called The Silver Spoon and other amenities at the Phillips 66-branded site. Andrew Geller, managing partner of 333 [...]
San Jose police are investigating an incident at a gas station where a couple used their ATM card to pay for gas and ended up falling victim to a skimming scheme, news stations in that city reported. The couple said they rarely use their ATM card, and noticed that $1,500 was taken from their bank [...]
Coinstar E-Payment Services’ full range of Pay-As-You-Go products and services will be available in TravelCenters of America’s full-service travel centers operating under the "TA", "TravelCenters of America" and "Petro Stopping Centers" brands. The lineup of Coinstar Pay-As-You-Go products includes prepaid wireless, long distance, gift cards, financial services like prepaid re-loadable and one-time gift debit cards [...]
Exxon Mobil Corp. shareholders on Wednesday rejected a resolution to bar its CEO, Rex Tillerson, from serving as the company’s chairman, Bloomberg news reported. The rejection also killed plans to have the company adopt greenhouse-gas reduction targets. A proposal to split the CEO and chairman’s roles received 39.5% support at the company’s annual meeting in [...]
CHS Inc. said it has completed a $400 million upgrade to an oil refinery near Billings, Mont., which could give the company the ability to increase fuel production at that location by more than 20%. The company marked the completion of the two-year project at an event held at the refinery on Wednesday. A diversified [...]
Alimentation Couche-Tard, Convenience Store Decisions’ 2007 Convenience Store Chain of the Year, continues to respond to consumer demand with its introduction of Couche-Tard Menu stores. With their bright and welcoming self-service environment, these stores feature not only the traditional products they are known for, but also a vast range of brand name prepared meals, warm pastries [...]
Rutter’s Farm Stores unveiled its latest store design this past week, a 5,200-square-foot ecofriendly site in Springettsburry Township in York County, Pa. The North Hills Road store features a modern, environmentally friendly design with a white roof to cool the building and reduce energy demand, the company said. It’s the first of 10 new stores [...]
Dallas-based 7-Eleven is embarking on a direct-store delivery experiment in Southern California in hopes of sharpening up the entire DSD process, the company’s CEO, Joe DePinto, announced last week at the 2008 Beverage Forum in New York. The plan is not to bypass the DSD process, DePinto said, but to bundle rival marketers’ brands on [...]
Belgian beer giant InBev is working up what may be a $44.6 billion offer for Anheuser-Busch, according to The New York Times. The world’s largest brewer by sales volume and the maker of Stella Artois, InBev already has some ties to Anheuser-Busch, as it distributes Budweiser in Canada while A-B imports InBev beers like Stella [...]