Business Succession Planning Basics-Gifting and Discounting Basics
If you currently own a business, estate planning is probably not one of your highest priorities. You are certainly more concerned about where your income is coming from, how to…
Walmart Local Ad Fight Takes Off
Walmart TV ads have come home, Advertising Age reports. Whereas in the late 1990s, it flexed its ad muscle with national spots that had its regional competitors trembling, today its…
Fritos Celebrates 80th Anniversary
Fritos brand corn chips will celebrate its 80th anniversary by setting out to achieve a world record for the biggest-ever Fritos Chili Pie. A mixture of Fritos corn chips, chili,…
Convenience Store Sales Top $700 Billion
The convenience store industry had record sales of $700.3 billion in 2012, with in-store sales increasing 2.2% to reach a record $199.3 billion, and motor fuels sales increasing 2.9% to…
5 Myths about the New Estate Tax Laws
As the dust settles around the new laws governing estate taxes, gift taxes and generation-skipping transfer taxes, here are five myths you need to know about the new laws: The…
Juice Sales Souring
For the past five years through 2012, sales of fruit and vegetable juices and juice drinks have remained flat, while the volume consumed by households has barely kept pace with…
IRI’s Top 10 C-Store Brands
In 2011-2012, nearly 1,900 new consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands hit retail shelves across the U.S. multi-outlet geography, which includes traditional grocery, drug, and mass market retailers, as well as…
Brewers Lose Market Share to Spirits
Leaders from MillerCoors, Anheuser-Busch, and other major beer marketers met last week to figure out how to boost the reputation of beer among Millennial drinkers, Advertising Age reports. Beer shipment…
Breakfast Sandwiches Make Top 10 List
Breakfast sandwiches have made it to the top 10 list of foods Americans eat at breakfast. According to The NPD Group, breakfast sandwiches are on the list for the first…
Will Real Gas Become Extinct?
Government edicts relating to renewable fuel has some retailers concerned that pure gasoline will soon be unavailable, the Tulsa World reports. More drivers are seeking out gasoline without ethanol because of…