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Steve Dwyer

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Steve Dwyer

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Confection Direction

Reilly Musser knows her customers love the new “hand-to-mouth” confection products—resealable, shareable pouches of unwrapped, bite-sized sweets. Musser, category manager for Santa Clara, Calif.-based Robinson Oil, which has 18 Rotten Robbie c-stores and a few kiosk-type locations, sees the upside of the trend toward bite-sized.

The Confection Direction

Despite declines in product launches, candy manufacturers strike big with shareable, snackable treats

Foodservice

C-Stores Looking to Leverage Lunch

Convenience foodservice doesn't have to be elaborate to wrest share from other channels

Tobacco Road to Innovation

A bevvy of new packaging twists in the snus, cigar and e-cig subcategories focus on product freshness, quality, differentiation

High-Octane Conversion

VP Racing Fuels—with a reputation that precedes it with hard-core racing participants—recently announced it was diving headlong into the branded retail business, in essence striving to create a “super-retail brand.”

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Badge Value

Packaging innovation runneth over in the beer category.

General Merchandise/HBC

Cross-Examining Cross-Promotions

HBC opportunities for convenience store retailers

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Nagging Symptoms

HBC remains a niche category, but opportunities for buoying sales exist.

Snacks & Candy

Keeping Up With the Gym Bag Snacker

Snacking trends evolving into more day-parts, each with own motivator

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Taking Ownership

Amid subcategory's growth, retailers explore ways to right-size RYO/MYO mix.

Company News

Titan's Giant Growth Plans

Folding in Crescent Oil stimulates wholesale, renewable fuels ambitions

General Merchandise/HBC

Best New Products

CSP announces winners of fifth-annual retailer-choice competition

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