Black Buffalo is the world’s only credible smokeless tobacco alternative, creating a substantial, highly differentiated growth opportunity for the convenience store channel. Black Buffalo has created a modern oral nicotine in moist smokeless form, enabling adult tobacco consumers to enjoy the ritual and experience of MST without the harmful materials found in traditional products. Black […]
Tobacco Alternatives Gold Award: High Tea Herbal Wraps by Kretek International Inc.
The Evolution of Rolling has arrived! High Tea wraps are here for your customers looking to take their rolling experience to the next level — without the nicotine buzz of a tobacco wrap. Kretek is proud to offer High Tea non-tobacco herbal wraps. High Tea wraps are pliable and easy to roll, stored flat in […]
General Merchandise Gold Award: EZ Reach Lighter by BIC
The BIC EZ Reach lighter features a 1.45-inch extended wand that helps keep fingers further from the flame. Its body is the size of a pocket lighter, so it fits comfortably in your hands, bags and pockets, making it perfect for lighting candles, grilling and everything in between. The new design lights at any angle. […]
FDA Authorizes Four Verve Oral Tobacco Products
On Oct. 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued marketing granted orders to U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC (USSTC) for four oral tobacco products under the brand name of Verve. The four products are: Verve Discs Blue Mint, Verve Discs Green Mint, Verve Chews Blue Mint and Verve Chews Green Mint. After FDA’s…
Top Tips for Maximizing Tobacco Sales
With hard-to-predict influences in the form of regulations at all levels of government, supply disruption, newfangled products and shifting consumer behavior, merchandising the tobacco back bar may seem as tricky as ever to today’s retailers. Cigarette dollar sales have been relatively flat, rising just 0.1% for the 52 weeks — and slightly down 0.8% for…
FDA Reshapes Vape Category
On Aug. 26, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lowered the hammer on approximately 35,000 flavored e-cigarette items by issuing marketing denial orders (MDOs). The ruling prohibits interstate commerce for these products, resulting in convenience stores, vape shops and tobacco retailers immediately pulling them from store shelves. One week later, the FDA released approximately 300,000…
FDA Authorizes ENDS Products for First Time
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced it has authorized the marketing of three new tobacco products, marking the first set of electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products ever to be authorized by the FDA through the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) pathway. The FDA issued marketing granted orders to R.J. Reynolds…
Flavor Bans Bring Unintended Consequences
Recent peer-reviewed studies show that banning flavored tobacco products or flavored vaping products has significant negative public health impacts policymakers must consider in deciding the proper scope of regulation. Several studies indicate banning all flavored tobacco products actually increases the number of young people who smoke cigarettes. The first study, published in June 2020 in…
FDA Finalizes Pair of Rules for New Tobacco Products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued two final rules for the premarket review of new tobacco products. The foundational rules provide additional information on the requirements for the content, format and review of Premarket Tobacco Product Applications (PMTAs) and Substantial Equivalence (SE) Reports – two of the most commonly used pathways through which a…
Bidi Vapor Distributor Kaival Brands Reports Third Quarter Results
Kaival Brands Innovations Group, the exclusive global distributor of Bidi Vapor’s Bidi Stick, released results for its fiscal year (FY) 2021 third quarter. Bidi Vapor is the a disposable electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) intended exclusively for adult consumers 21 and over. Effects of FDA Review Process Kaival said in a statement that the company…