Chicago-based Black Buffalo has revealed its 2024 Herd Preferred Award recipients, including a dozen convenience stores.
Recognized for outstanding performance across key metrics in 2024, the smokeless tobacco company said the award celebrates retail partners who achieved top performance in 2024 across these categories:
- Top convenience and tobacco store chains by Black Buffalo cans per week (CPW)
- Top convenience and tobacco store chains by overall Black Buffalo volume
The 2024 Herd Preferred Award winners are:
Discount Tobacco Outlet, Shelbyville, Tennessee
FiveStar, Bardstown, Kentucky
GetGo Café + Market, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jackson BevCo, Boise, Idaho
Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, Oklahoma City
Pilot Co., Knoxville, Tennessee
Puff Tobacco Products, Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
QuikTrip, Tulsa, Oklahoma
RaceTrac, Atlanta
Rutter’s, York, Pennsylvania
Sheetz, Altoona, Pennsylvania
Smoker Friendly, Boulder, Colorado
Smokin' Joe’s, Davenport, Iowa
Town Pump, Butte, Montana
Wawa, Wawa, Pennsylvania
Weigel’s, Powell, Tennessee
Wild Bill’s Tobacco, Troy, Michigan
“Our 2024 Herd Preferred Award winners represent the best retailers in America, as demonstrated not only through their exceptional sales efforts, but also through their dedication to providing a robust portfolio of tobacco alternatives for adult consumers,” said Matthew Hanson, chief growth officer at Black Buffalo. “We look forward to continuing our collaboration and success with all of our retail partners, especially our Herd Preferred Award winners, in 2025 and beyond.”
Performance was evaluated using full-year 2024 shipment data provided by Management Science Associates Inc. and includes only those chains that carried Black Buffalo products for the entirety of the year, the company said.
Black Buffalo said that while the award is grounded in objective performance using total can volume and CPW, each of these chains has also shown remarkable commitment to growing the category and serving adult nicotine consumers responsibly.
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