CHICAGO – Voting is now open for CSP’s14th annual Retailer Choice Best New Product Contest. CSP magazine, the leading media brand serving the convenience industry, announced the finalists this week; the complete list is below.
The editors of CSP and Convenience Store Products magazines identified all finalists from the list of products nominated by c-store industry members. Now it’s up to c-store retailers to select the winners of this coveted award. Retailers can fill out a ballot now through Sept. 8 at CSPDailyNews.com/BestNewProductsContest.
“CSP’s New Products Contest represents so much more than new products,” said Abbey Lewis, editor-in-chief of Convenience Store Products. “It represents consumer and retail trends, and the endless creativity and innovative thinking of our supplier community. We are as eager as anyone to find out how retailers vote.”
The group of finalists represents new products that were introduced into the c-store market between Aug. 1, 2016, and May 26, 2017.
Winners will be announced and receive their awards at the NACS Show in October. They will also be mentioned in an article that will appear online at www.CSPDailyNews.com and in the December 2017 issue of CSP magazine.
The full list of finalists:
| Product category | Supplier | Product |
|---|---|---|
| Candy (Chocolate) | The Hershey Co. | Hershey's Cookie Layer Crunch |
| Mars Chocolate North America | M&M's Caramel Chocolate Candies | |
| Mondelez International | Milka Oreo Chocolate Candy Bars | |
| Candy (Nonchocolate) | General Mills Convenience | Gushers |
| Wrigley | Starburst Gummies | |
| Leaf Brands LLC | Wacky Wafers Candy | |
| Dairy | Chobani | Drink Chobani |
| DanoneWave | Horizon Organic Milk Aseptic Quarts | |
| General Mill Convenience | Yoplait Dippers | |
| Foodservice products (Dessert) | Bake'n Joy Foods Inc. | Kitchen Cupboard |
| Rich Products | Mixing Bowl Sourmet Filled Cookies | |
| Prairie City Bakery | Sea Salt Caramel & Chocolate Chip Ooey Gooey Butter Cakes | |
| Foodservice products (Dispensed beverages) | Red Diamond | Fruzen Frozen Tea |
| Pierce Bros. Coffee Roasters | Nitro Fogbuster: Cold Brew Coffee | |
| Kerry Convenience | Twinkies Cappuccino | |
| Foodservice products (Handhelds) | AdvancePierre Foods Inc. | Big AZ Sriracha Grilled Chicken Sandwich |
| Johnsonville LLC | French Toast Sausage | |
| Day'n Night Bites | The Donut by Day'n Night Bites | |
| Foodsevice products (Snacks) | Ruiz Foods | Egg, Sausage & Cheese Empanadas |
| Tyson Convenience | New Bosco Sticks Stuffed Breadsticks | |
| J&J Snack Foods Corp. | Pretzel Fillers | |
| Equipment--Foodservice | Rational USA | Rational Self Cooking Center XS Model 6 2/3 |
| Hatco Corp. | Toast-Qwik Conveyor Toaster | |
| Alto-Shaam | Vector Series Multi-Cook Ovens | |
| Holding and Display Equipment--Foodservice | Duke Manufacturing | HS2 |
| Plastic & Products Marketing | Push N Go Lid Dispenser | |
| iSee Store Innovations | Roller Chill | |
| Energy shots--General merchandise | Dyla LLC | Forto Coffee Energy Shot |
| Life Support Development | Life Support Recovery Shot--Red Label | |
| Tweaker Energy Drink | Tweaker Extreme Energy Shot | |
| Health & beauty care--General merchandise | Max Distributing | Beauty To Go Cosmetics |
| Dynatabs LLC | Dynatabs Digestive Assist | |
| GSK | Nicorette Gum | |
| Packaged beverages (Alcohol) | E&J Gallo Winery | Gallo Family Sweets |
| Constellation | Modelo Chelada Tamarindo Picante | |
| MillerCoors | Redd's Wicked Blood Orange | |
| Packaged beverages (Energy) | PepsiCo | Mango Lime Mountain Dew Kickstart |
| Monster | Monster Hydro | |
| Red Bull North America | Red Bull Purple Edition Sugarfree | |
| Packaged beverages (Nonalcohol) | Nestle Waters | Nestea |
| Numi/Smuckers | Numi Organic Tea/Smucker Natural Foods Organic Tea | |
| Dr Pepper Snapple Group | Takes 2 to Mango Tea by Snapple | |
| Meat snacks | Jack Link's | Jack Link's Applewood Breakfast Bacon |
| The Hershey Co. | Krave Meat Snacks | |
| Perky Jerky LLC | Perky Jerky 100% Grass-Fed Beef Sticks | |
| Snacks (Bars) | Clif Bar & Co. | Clif Whey Protein Bar |
| Oatmega (part of Amplify Snack Brands) | Oatmega Grass-Fed Whey Protein Cookie | |
| ThinkThin | Protein & Superfruit | |
| Snacks (Salty) | Oberto Brands | Oberto Trail Mix |
| Paqui Chips | Paqui Carolina Reaper Madness Chips | |
| Kellogg's | Pringles Loud | |
| Snacks (Sweet) | Mars Chocolate North America | goodnessknows Snack Squares--three new flavors |
| Mrs. Freshley's | Mrs Freshley's Cake Crisps | |
| General Mills Convenience | Nature Valley Granola Cups | |
| Technology | GSP | AccuStore Scorecards |
| GasBuddy | GasBuddy Business PAges | |
| PDI | PDI/Labor Scheduler 2.0 | |
| Tobacco (Cigars) | Prime Time International Distributing Inc. | Prime Time Tropical Filtered Cigar |
| Swisher International Inc. | Swisher Sweets Banana Smash | |
| Swedish Match | White Owl Emerald & White Owl Platinum Cigarillos |
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