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CSP Magazine

Editor's Note: Setting the Pace

What follows on this page and in the rest of this special Category Management Handbook issue of CSP magazine are highlights of category performance in 2013. We hope this handbook provides a helpful road map for the coming year and highlights opportunities for convenience stores.

Tobacco

Smoking-Accessory Sales Continue to Fall Off

Smoking-accessories continue to lag in c-stores, on a 4-year downward trend.

With cash at ready, Altria, Reynolds, Lorillard to increase investments, Herzog tells NATO

Lorillard head calls regulatory debate “a distraction”

In a world of increasing social pressures, taxes and regulations, convenience store and tobacco-shop retailers increasingly find themselves on the same side of an issue.

Bill calls for closer oversight of new-tobacco-product approvals process

Challenges & opportunities to selling the No. 1 in-store product

As foodservice flags in 2013, other categories rise to challenge

Public, others "need to be aware of this potential health risk," it concludes

Intends to crack down on illegal cigarette, tobacco trafficking, sales

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