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Retailers to Elect Best of the Best

Announcing finalists for CSP’s 12th annual Retailer Choice Best New Product Contest
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. -- Which products will be crowned as the best of 2015? That’s for convenience-store retailers to decide.
 
Three finalists each in 29 product categories have been selected in CSP’s 12th annual Retailer Choice Best New Product Contest. This group represents products that have been introduced into the c-store market between Aug. 1, 2014, and July 31, 2015, and it was whittled down from a pool of several hundred product nominations.
 
Retailers in the convenience-store channel now have the opportunity to vote for the winners of each category by logging on to www.cspnet.com/2015productwinner or by tweeting the company name and product with the hashtag #CSPnpc2015. Voting is open August 3 through September 1.
 
“The quality of new products being unveiled year after year is a testament to how well suppliers are meeting and exceeding the rapidly increasing expectations of the customer,” said Abbie Westra, deputy group editor of Winsight Media’s CSP and Convenience Store Products magazines. “Presenting the industry’s most significant new product award to the deserving suppliers each year is a true honor for our editorial team.”
 
Winners will be announced and receive an award plaque at the NACS Show in October, with a complete feature article appearing online at www.cspnet.com and in the December issue of CSP magazine.
 
The full list of finalists includes:
 

Category

2015 CSP’s 12th annual Retailer Choice Best New Product Contest

Company

Product

Best New Packaging

GOJO Industries Inc.

PURELL ES Everywhere System

Belgian Boys

ConeBite

Argo Tea

Green Tea Strawberry Unsweetened Tea

 

 

 

Candy-Chocolate

The Hershey Company

Hershey's Caramels Milk Chocolate 1.1oz

Nestlé

Butterfinger Peanut Butter Cups Minis Share Pack

Mars Chocolate

Snickers Xtreme Bar

 

 

 

Candy-Nonchocolate

Impact Confections

Warheads Worms

Candy Dynamics

Slime Licker From the Makers of Toxic Waste Candy

Mondelez International

Trident Layers Swedish Fish Gum

 

 

 

Dispensed Beverage Equipment

Taylor Company

MagnaBlend Frozen Beverage Blending Station

BUNN

Espress Sure Tamp SuperAutomatic Espresso Brewer

Cornelius

Viper Elite Carbon

 

 

 

Dispensed Beverages

Boyd Coffee Company

Birthday Cake Cappuccino

Insight Beverages

YellowBird Slimminade

Nestle Professional Beverage

Coffee-Mate Iced Coffee Liquid Concentrate Pump Bottle

 

 

 

Edible Grocery

MaMa Rosa's LLC

Retail Ready Pizza

Kraft Foods

Stacked - White Cheddar Salami with Blackened Pepper

Kraft Foods

Velveeta Cheesy Bowls Bean & Veggie Burrito

 

 

 

Energy Drinks

Red Bull

Yellow, Cherry and Orange Editions

Monster

Monster Rehab Peach Tea + Energy

PepsiCo

AMP Energy Strawberry Limeade

 

 

 

Energy Shots/Supplements

Kraft Foods

MiO Energy

Hangover Joe's

Git R Done Energy Shot

Living Essentials LLC 

Strawberry Watermelon flavored Extra Strength 5-hour Energy

 

 

 

Equipment-Nonfood

Forte Product Solutions

TwoFold Pole Mount Windshield Service Center

Generac Power Systems

Protector Gaseous Standby Generator

FireKing Security Group

Ascent Bill Validating Safe

 

 

 

Foodservice Equipment

NemcoFoods

PaniniPro Sandwich Press

Ovention

Matchbox 360

Alto-Shaam

Xcelerate Hi-Speed Oven

 

 

 

Foodservice-General

f'real Foods

f'real Cotton Candy Flavor Milkshake

Rich Products

Sweet Middles

Krispy Krunchy

Krispy Fish Fillets

 

 

 

Foodservice-Breakfast

Tyson Foods

Jimmy Dean Blazin' Hot Breakfast Sandwiches

Day'N Night Bites

Bagel Slim

Johnsonville

Breakfast Sausage Rollers

Home Market Foods

Cheesy Hash Browns & Sausage RollerBites

 

 

 

Foodservice-Handheld

Deli Express

Premium Selections Sandwiches

Nestle Professional

Empanadas

AdvancePierre Foods

Hot 'n' Ready Cheeseburger Roller Grill Link

 

 

 

Foodservice-Snacks & Sides

Chester's International

Chester's Homestyle Sides

Hunt Brothers Pizza

Cheesebread and Marinara Dipping Sauce

McCain Foods USA

Pepper Jack Tortilla Wedges

 

 

 

General Merchandise

FIFO Wireless

Micro Flamingo

The Purse Scooper

Vehicle Seat Hook

Crocs Lighter Inc.

Handy Lighter

 

 

 

Health and Beauty

Lil' Drug Store Products

Lil' Drug Store Brand Value Program

DBI Distribution

Booty Call

Urgent Rx

Fast Powders

 

 

 

Meat Snacks

Thanasi Foods

Duke’s Small Batch Smoked Meats Shorty Smoked Sausages – Hot & Spicy

Oberto Brands

Chicken Tenders Jerky

Jack Link's

Bacon Jerky

 

 

 

Packaged Beverages-Nonalcohol

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola Life

Tradewinds Tea

Jimmy Buffett’s Island Tea

good2grow

Organic Juicy Waters

 

 

 

Packaged Beverages-Alcohol

E&J Gallo

Viniq

MillerCoors

Redd's Wicked Mango

Anheuser-Busch

Bud Light Lemon-Ade-Rita

 

 

 

Snacks-Bars

Clif Bar & Company

Clif Organic Trail Mix Bar

Kind Snacks

Kind Healthy Grains Popped bars

Mars Chocolate

goodnessknows snack squares

 

 

 

Snacks-Salty

General Mills

Chex Popped Sweet & Salty

Kellogg's

Pringles with Dip Jalapeno Cheddar

Thanasi Foods

BIGS Smokey Sweet Bar-B-Q Sunflower Seed

 

 

 

Snacks-Sweet

Flowers Foods/Mrs. Freshley's

Cinnamon Twirls made with Cinnabon Cinnamon

Little Debbie

PB Cream Pies

Goetze's Candy Co. Inc.

Caramel Creams Crispy Rice & Marshmallow Treat

 

 

 

Technology-Hardware

MyTankInfo

Tank Gauge Automation & Reporting

Wayne Fueling Systems

Wayne Fusion Site Automation System

Verifone

Commander

 

 

 

Technology-Software

GSP

AccuStore Store Hub

Gilbarco VeederRoot

Applause with Order at the Pump

OPIS

OPIS PricePro

 

 

 

Tobacco-Accessories

BIC Consumer Products USA

BIC Special Edition The Walking Dead Series

Republic Tobacco

OCB Organic Hemp Cigarette Papers

CB Distributors Inc.

ACVB (Adjustable Constant Voltage Battery)

 

 

 

Tobacco-Cigars

Trendsettah

Extendos Extra Long Cigarillos

Swedish Match

Game Leaf Rolled Leaf Cigars

John Middleton

Black & Mild Casino

 

 

 

Tobacco-E-cigarettes

Ballantyne Brands

Mistic Bridge Starter Kit

iSmoke LLC

iSmoke Starter Kit

NJOY

Recharge

 

 

 

Tobacco-OTP

Cheyenne (CN Smokeless LLC)

Klondike Premium Moist Tobacco 6-Pack Tub

RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company

Grizzly Premium Dark Wintergreen

Scandinavian Tobacco Group Lane Ltd.

Jester Pipe Tobacco

 

 

 

Tobacco-Vaping Products

LOGIC Technologies

Logic Pro Advanced Vaping

PAX Labs

JUUL

VMR Products LLC

V2 Pro Series 3

 

Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based Winsight LLC is a market-dominant, business-to-business media and information company specializing in the convenience-retailing, restaurant and noncommercial foodservice industries. Winsight has an extensive media portfolio of four leading publications, including CSP, Restaurant Business, FoodService Director and Convenience Store Products, a suite of digital products including websites (CSPnet.com), e-newsletters (CSP Daily News) and webinars, as well as video products, mobile and tablet apps, custom marketing solutions and the convenience-retailer intelligence tool, CSPedia. The Winsight Events group produces six exclusive, large-scale executive-level conferences—Restaurant Leadership Conference, FARE Conference, Outlook Leadership, Convenience Retailing University, FSTEC and MenuDirections—in addition to more than 12 major EduNetworking conferences and advisory meetings.

Visit www.winsightmedia.com for more information.

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