A two-person team is set to fill the role of former president and CEO Michael Zielinski. Royal Buying Group Inc. (RBG) has appointed Angela Angelilli and Sharon Porter as the new Executive Leadership Team. Angelilli, executive vice president of sales, and Porter, executive vice president of business development, will fill the role of former [...]
Purchases El Gallo Giro Artisan Mexican Bakery products from Artimex. Prairie City Bakery, based in Vernon Hills, Ill., has purchased the Tina’s Gourmet Pastries Brand and the El Gallo Giro Artisan Mexican Pastry business from Santa Fe Springs, Calif.-based Artimex. Tina’s is a West Coast brand that includes more than 30 items individually wrapped items [...]
By Jan. 1, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco plans to be recycling about 97% of its manufacturing waste, with the other 3% converted to energy at waste-to-energy facilities, replacing fossil fuels. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco is working hard to protect the environment. It’s a lofty environmental goal—one that relatively few companies attempt. But Jamie Morgan has [...]
In front of nearly 300 convenience store industry retailers and suppliers, Peter Tedeschi, president and CEO of Tedeschi Food Shops, accepted Convenience Store Decisions’ 2012 Convenience Store Chain of the Year award at a banquet in Las Vegas. Tedeschi’s is CSD’s 23rd Chain of the Year winner, the oldest and most prestigious award offered in [...]
Parker’s donates one cent of every gallon of gas purchased at all 27 of its convenience stores on the first Wednesday of the month to community schools through the Fueling the Community program. Parker’s has presented a check for $6,000 to Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools as part of the company’s Fueling the Community program. This [...]
Millennials focus on self identity while Boomers focus on convenience, but brands need to cater to both demographics. Every specialty brand in America today must decide how to appeal to two arguably incompatible demographic groups. Eighty million Millennials will soon reach peak buying power. At the same time, 77 million Baby Boomers are entering new [...]
Exponential growth in usage and innovative packaging lead some experts to believe e-tobacco may be the wave of the future. By Bob Phillips, Contributing Editor. In fiction there was Roy Hobbs, the athletic prodigy who came, unheard of, out of the Iowa cornfields to take the world by storm. In real life there is Mike [...]
Identifying and meeting customers’ needs and wants, while also respecting their privacy, is the formula for cultivating a successful rewards program. By Erin Rigik, Associate Editor. Convenience stores know loyalty is crucial to keeping customers coming back for more, but it’s what you do with the information collected—and how you maintain your customers’ trust—that can [...]
Features such as free wifi and extra seating are meant to encourage shoppers to stay and visit, instead of just passing through. RaceTrac debuted its new Georgia c-store on U.S. 78, just south of Route 316. The new store stands 6,191 square feet, larger than the existing RaceTracs in the market, the Oconee Enterprise Online [...]
CSD’s 2012 Foodservice Makeover winner gets help from a panel on experts on how to grow its foodservice operation. By: Erin Rigik, Associate Editor. Convenience Store Decisions revealed the Englefield Oil Co. Duchess Shoppes preliminary Foodservice Makeover results during a session at the NACS Show in Las Vegas. The 2012 Convenience Store Decisions’ Foodservice Makeover [...]
More than 14,500 charities in all 50 states have benefited from program over last five years. BP employees celebrated a historic milestone today, reaching $20 million donated to more than 14,500 U.S.-based non-profit organizations through The Fabric of America Fund since the program launched in October 2007. All full-time U.S.-based employees can designate up to [...]
Customers are willing to spend more for simpler experiences. For three years running, quick-service restaurants and supermarket chains, including Subway, Dunkin’ Donuts, Publix and McDonald’s, are considered some of the simplest industries by U.S. consumers (ranking No. 2 and No. 3 of 25 industries), according to results from the third annual Global Brand Simplicity Index. [...]
Find dairy, deli, bakery, cheese, foodservice products, packaging and services that suit your chain at the 2013 show. The International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association’s (IDDBA) 49th annual seminar and expo, Dairy-Deli-Bake 2013, is set to be held in Orlando, Fla., at the Orange County Convention Center, June 2-4. The theme for the show is Foodie All-Stars. The [...]
Point-of-sale attacks at merchant locations have highlighted weaknesses in POS systems integration. Most of these attacks can be traced back to remote-access portals that were inadequately secured. By Howard Riell, Associate Editor. More than a few c-store operators grow anxious at the mention of anything to do with PCI compliance, and who can blame them. [...]
Convenience store operators who ignore the manufacturers and distributors with whom they do business may find themselves facing serious liability issues. By Scott Melville and Steve Mister. More than 150 million Americans take dietary supplements every year, trusting that they’re doing something good for themselves. And their trust is well justified, as most supplements maintain [...]