Sheetz increased its store count in the Wheeling, W.Va. area yesterday with a second store location. The new store is located at 6 Cabela Drive in Triadelphia. Employees celebrated the new store with grand opening festivities yesterday, including a ribbon cutting ceremony at 3:30 p.m. West Virginia Governor, Joe Manchin III was…
PepsiCo Names Two EVP Appointments
PepsiCo has announced two new executive employee promotions. Tom Greco, a 23-year veteran has been appointed to the newly created role of executive vice president of sales for North America beverages. Additionally, Salman Amin, who has led PepsiCo’s business in the UK and Ireland, was named executive vice president sales and marketing at…
The Pantry Names Marks to Succeed Sodini
The Pantry Inc., headquartered in Cary, N.C., has appointed Terrance Marks to the role of president and CEO, effective Sept. 25. With 1,679 stores in eleven states under select banners, including Kangaroo Express, its primary operating banner, the Pantry is the leading independently operated c-store chain in the Southeastern U.S. Marks previously…
7-Eleven Honors Kraft
7-Eleven Inc. will present long-time supplier-partner Kraft Foods Global Inc. with the company’s 2008 Retailer Initiative Award at its Business Partners Dinner Sept. 9 in Dallas. Retailer Initiative is 7-Eleven’s strategy for providing customers with what they want through item-by-item management at each store. Kraft was selected for its high level of partnership throughout…
Hunt Brothers Pizza Introduces New Wings
Hunt Brothers Pizza has announced its newest program, Hunt Brothers Wings, the perfect complement to the company’s well-known core pizza product. Hunt Brothers Pizza is the largest distributor of fresh dough pizza to the convenience store market, with more than 6,000 locations in 28 states. Its new wings offering began stores in June, and…
Thorntons to Open Six New Stores
Thorntons has broken ground on six new sites, which are set to open for business by the end of December 2009. Four of the new locations will open in Nashville,Tenn., expanding the market to 10 locations in 2 1/2 years. The additional two stores will open in Chicago and Champaign, Ill. With…
Lil’ Drug Store Products Celebrates 35 Years
Lil’ Drug Store Products Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is celebrating its 35th anniversary as a pioneer in the non-prescription sample drug market that has changed health and beauty care in the convenience, grocery, drug and mass market retailing sectors. What began in 1974 as a four-item product line available in Iowa, now serves customers,…
Quick Chek’s Murphy Rides For A Cure
As Quick Chek’s senior vice president Mike Murphy heads to Whitefish, Mont. on Sept. 3, to participate in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s (JDRF) Ride to Cure Diabetes, he will not only attempt to bike 100 miles to support research to find a cure for type 1 (juvenile) diabetes, but will do so as…
Appco Sale Pending
Florida Sunshine Investments, the same company that recently bought Crescent Oil Co. of Independence, Kan., is nearing the final stages of acquiring Appco, the convenience store chain in eastern Tennessee, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. NRC Realty & Capital Advisors LLC (NRC) is handling the Appco sale under direction of the bankruptcy court. Appco’s…
7-Eleven Named One of 20 Top Franchises to Start
7-Eleven was named number three on Forbes magazine’s list of the “Top 20 Franchises to Start.” Forbes took many variables into account when deciding on the 20 companies, including the initial franchise fee; total locations (they wanted at least 50, but more was better); survival rates (they looked at the percentage of closings during the…