Garden City, Ga. site opens for business. Parker’s has opened a new state-of-the-art store in Garden City, Ga. in response to customer demand. The 28th Parker’s location, located at 4219 Augusta Rd., features discounted gasoline as well as nearly 4,000 square feet of retail space. Like all other Parker’s retail locations, the Garden City store [...]
Open Pantry’s Robert Buhler opens up about the company’s future, missed opportunities and the financial wisdom offered by his board of directors. By John Lofstock, Editor. To make your mark in the convenience store industry, you are either growing the business or waiting for the rest of the industry to pass you by. Growth can [...]
“The settlement still does virtually nothing to protect retailers or their customers from the abuses of the card industry, and it attempts to silence any objections for years to come,” says NRF. The National Retail Federation (NRF) said a revised antitrust settlement filed in federal court Friday, Oct. 19, scarcely begins to address retailers’ concerns [...]
The limited time offer is a proven strategy for testing new products, generating a buzz in your stores and giving consumers a compelling reason to make an immediate purchase. Marilyn Odesser-Torpey, Associate Editor. Everyone knows when the McRib comes to town. McDonald’s does not even have to advertise it; the saucy pork sandwich’s legions of [...]
Retailers weigh in on what stood out to them among the rows of new products in the Cool New Products Preview Room. At the NACS Show that ran Oct. 7-10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, attendees had the chance to view the Cool New Products Preview Room and check out what’s new and cool [...]
Purchases L.A. Edlbeck Co. Eby-Brown Co. LLC has reached a definitive agreement to purchase the assets of L.A. Edlbeck Co. of Green Bay, Wis. Servicing retail accounts throughout the Midwest, the Atlantic Coast and the Southeast, Eby-Brown is the largest privately held convenience store distributor in the U.S. with annual revenues in excess of $5 [...]
More than 150 companies were waitlisted for the expo, which was sold to fire marshal-mandated capacity. A record number of buyers fueled a 7.2% surge in NACS Show attendance this year, as attendance hit 24,056, the second highest ever, and only 309 short of the record set in 2004. Records abounded at the NACS Show [...]
Hershey joins world’s leading companies for top-tier economic, environmental and social performance. The Hershey Co. has been selected to join the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI). Hershey is one of seven North American companies from the Food & Beverage category in this year’s index and one of only 17 companies added in 2012. [...]
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 [...]