McLane Grows in Texas

McLane Grows in Texas

McLane Co. Inc. has bought the former building of an oil field manufacturing company in Alice, Texas, to use as a dispatch center for its distribution services. Trucks coming in from the distributor’s Temple, Texas headquarters already loaded will arrive at the dispatch center where 10 drivers will deliver the products to their destinations in [...]

Bottled Water Tax Scrutinized

Bottled Water Tax Scrutinized

The beverage and retail industries took a stand today for their already over-taxed customers by filing a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the city of Chicago’s new 5-cent-per-bottle tax on bottled water, which amounts to an astounding 30 percent tax on a case of safe, healthy bottled water. The first-of-its-kind tax, which took effect Jan. 1, [...]

Counterfeit Products Targets

Counterfeit Products Targets

More than 20 retailers, including several convenience store owners in Houston County, Georgia, were cited during the past three months for the sale and distribution of counterfeit merchandise, a Houston County sheriff’s investigator said Tuesday. Counterfeit merchandise valued at $623,718, plus $11,612.25 in cash, were seized during a sting operation from Oct. 1 to Jan. [...]

Black Market Tobacco Under Fire

Black Market Tobacco Under Fire

Philip Morris USA filed two lawsuits in federal court yesterday in the Eastern District of New York against importers, C.H. Rhodes of Flushing, N.Y., and U.S. Sun Star Trading Inc. of Brooklyn, N.Y. The lawsuits are aimed at stopping the importation, distribution, and sale of counterfeit cigarettes and the unauthorized use of Philip Morris USA’s [...]

SUBWAY Offering Online ServSafe Certification

SUBWAY Offering Online ServSafe Certification

The SUBWAY restaurant chain is proud to announce that it now offers online ServSafe Food Safety Training and Certification courses for its franchisees and their staff. ServSafe, developed by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF), is the premier source for food safety training, recognized by more jurisdictions than any other food safety program in [...]

Red Man Moist Snuff

Red Man Moist Snuff

The number one brand of smokeless chewing tobacco is leveraging more than 100 years of experience producing the highest quality tobacco products to delight consumers with something new–a line of premium moist snuff. Made from premium quality tobacco, Red Man Moist Snuff is available in Long Cut Wintergreen, Fine Cut Natural and Long Cut Straight. [...]

Beringer’s California Collection

Beringer’s California Collection

In a bold move to take the Chardonnay category by storm, Beringer Vineyards has launched its vintage 2006 California Collection Chardonnay. Priced at $6 suggested retail, it is a fruit-forward, easy-drinking wine that will be a part of the California Collection tier, which includes America’s No. 1 top-selling White Zinfandel, domestic Pinot Grigio, White Merlot [...]

Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr Pepper

Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr Pepper

Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages (CSAB) is rolling out Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr Pepper, the third flavor extension in the brand’s history. There’s nothing diet about this unique beverage treat, which combines the great taste of Diet Dr Pepper with a sweet cherry dipped in luscious chocolate. “Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr Pepper is the perfect indulgence…zero [...]

Hangover Buster

Hangover Buster

Pillar Rock USA Corp. has introduced Hangover Buster, an effervescent tablet specially formulated to prevent hangover symptoms such as nausea, headache, excessive thirst, fatigue, muscle ache and sensitivity to light and noise. Arriving in select convenience stores, drug stores and supermarkets nationwide, a package of Hangover Buster includes three individually foil-wrapped tablets, to be dissolved [...]

Chopstix Vegetable Egg Rolls

Chopstix Vegetable Egg Rolls

Chopstix USA Chinese takeout started as a small community restaurant in Teaneck N.J. in 1996. In just 11 years, Chopstix became much more. By 2000, the company first began shipping frozen meals around the country, franchising and opening new units, launching a catering division and offering direct-store distribution to convenience stores and gas stations. The [...]

M&M’s in Two New Varities

M&M’s in Two New Varities

MARS Snackfood US is extending its popular M&M’s brand with two new limited edition products: M&M’S Mint Crisp and M&M’S Wildly Cherry Chocolate Candies. Mint Crisp will be available in limited edition with the release of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” coming to theaters in the spring. M&M’s Wildly Cherry Chocolate [...]

Latin American Flavored Dairy Beverages

Latin American Flavored Dairy Beverages

SolMaya Brands, a registered brand of Presto Food & Beverage Inc. successfully launched a new line of Latin Flavored ready-to-drink dairy beverages in four flavors: Mexican Style Horchata, Horchata Sabor de Morro, Morir Sonando/Orange Jubilee and Avena Oatmeal Shake. SolMaya Brands is extraordinarily unique in that it is the only brand, both in the U.S. [...]

Innovative Design Concepts

Innovative Design Concepts

Italian stone and tile manufacturer GranitiFiandre is launching its GeoStyle Collection to the U.S. market. GeoStyle, which premiered at the 2007 Cersaie Exhibition in Italy, is a collection of porcelain surfacing products that highlights the company’s most innovative design concepts and expansive R&D efforts. GeoStyle is a vanguard collection of the company’s most creative and [...]