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7-Eleven Stores Introduce Sports Drink 7-Select Replenish

7-Eleven, the Irving, Texas-based convenience retailer, is selling 7-Select Replenish, an isotonic sports drink that contains no artificial sweeteners or high-fructose corn syrup. Available exclusively at 7-Eleven stores, 7-Select Replenish comes in four flavors: Lemonade, Orange Mango, Cucumber Mint and Guava Splash. While the everyday suggested retail price is $1.99, customers can take advantage of […]

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Pumpkin Spice Latte Makes Comeback To 7-Eleven Stores

7-Eleven is inviting coffee lovers to “Fall Back in Love with a Favorite” as participating stores begin serving up its version of the Pumpkin Spice Latte as well as fresh-brewed pumpkin-flavored coffee. Since Pumpkin Spice is the Irving, Texas-based convenience retailer’s most successful limited-time offering in the hot beverage category, it released the flavored drinks […]

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Vital Farms Egg Donations Provide Protein For Food-Insecure Families

Protein-rich foods are extremely important for—and frequently requested by—families struggling with hunger. Pasture-raised egg producer Vital Farms helps meet that need for food-insecure individuals in Southwest Missouri by making regular donations to Ozarks Food Harvest, a Feeding America food bank. Since October 2016, Austin, Texas-based Vital Farms has donated 12 million eggs to Ozarks Food […]

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Coleman Natural Foods Still Pioneering Natural Meat

The Coleman family has been ranching in Colorado since before it became a state. With its history dating back to 1875, Coleman Natural Foods has been a pioneer in raising livestock without the use of antibiotics or added growth hormones.   The family business held strong for almost a century but, in the late 1970s, when […]

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Two Brookshire Grocery Co. Execs Promoted To VP

Tyler, Texas-based Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) has promoted Suzanne Osbourn to VP, partner relations and development, and Jason Cooper to VP, corporate development and real estate. Osbourn is a 36-year BGC employee who has led employee relations since 2016, most recently as director. She now leads the newly consolidated areas of partner relations, benefits and […]

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H-E-B Names Quest For Texas Best Winners

After two days of intense deliberations and tasting a mix of brats, brittle, sauces, pickles, mixes, mixers, meats, cookies and crickets, H-E-B’s Primo Picks Quest for Texas Best named five winners. The winners of the sixth-annual event hail from Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Woodway and Atlanta, Texas, and received a combined $80,000 in cash prizes […]

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Left Hand Brewing, WAAYB Organics Launch Present CBD-Infused Sparkling Water

Colorado companies Left Hand Brewing and WAAYB Organics are launching Present CBD-Infused Sparkling Water featuring all-organic ingredients in three initial flavors: natural, lemon-lime and blood orange. Present is tended from seed to shelf in Northern Colorado and will be available for online ordering on Aug. 12. Present features 20mg of full-spectrum CBD distillate from hemp grown at WAAYB’s USDA Certified […]

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Charlotte’s Web Growing To Meet Demand For Its Hemp CBD Lines

Charlotte’s Web Holdings Inc., a Boulder, Colorado-based company whose business is hemp CBD extract products, has signed a lease on a newly constructed 136,610-s.f. industrial building located at 700 Tech Court in the Colorado Technology Center in Louisville, Colorado. The new location enables the company to prepare for production, distribution and R&D expansion to meet […]