American Wholesale Marketers Association

Lyons Meets with InRhythm at the 2011 ABX

Timmons Review Voice Picking System Implementation

Gem State and Perfetti Review Agenda Items at ABX

2012 AWMA Day on the Hill

Mark your calendars for next year's AWMA Day on the Hill Program. More information will follow.

2012 AWMA Show

Harmonizing Assortment – “A Holistic, Consumer-focused, Data Driven Category Management Framework”

AWMA is pleased to announce a new education program, Harmonizing Assortment – A Holistic, Consumer-focused, Data Driven Category...

2012 AWMA Show Final Schedule

The AWMA Show schedule is final, and while you will receive everything onsite, you can view the full schedule-at-a-glance online.
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AWMA Listed On FBETC Estate Tax Brochure

AWMA is included among the 42 organizations dedicated to estate tax reform and working to inform Congress as to the need for legislation to accomplish this goal. As a member of the Family...

AWMA Participates in FDA Food Safety Roundtable Meeting

AWMA Board Member and V.P. of Operations for Merchants Grocery Co., Inc., Chris Smythers, and AWMA V.P. of Government Relations, Anne Holloway, traveled to U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

AWMA Show Sponsors To-Date

Thank you to the following companies who have generously sponsored the 2012 AWMA Show. There is still time to be an Expo sponsor.

Platinum Sponsors
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AWMA Testifies Before FDA’s TPSAC on Dissolvables

AWMA’s President Scott Ramminger and Government Relations Vice President Anne Holloway attended the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) meeting on January 19th...

Harmonizing Assortment

AWMA new executive leadership program for distributors, Harmonizing Assortment – A Holistic, Consumer-focused, Data Driven Category Management Framework, will be...

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Annual conference delivers strategies to help distributors build profits. By Bob Gatty An agenda packed with strategies to help distributors build and maintain profits despite the nation’s troubled economy highlighted the 2011 AWMA Summit held in Atlanta, GA, Sept. 12-15, with concrete recommendations offered by top industry advisors and executives.

Annual conference delivers strategies to help distributors build profits.

By Bob Gatty

An agenda packed with strategies to help distributors build and maintain profits despite the nation’s troubled economy highlighted the 2011 AWMA Summit held in Atlanta, GA, Sept. 12-15, with concrete recommendations offered by top industry advisors and executives.

Federal Judge Blocks Implementation of Cigarette Graphic Warning Labels

A federal judge on Monday, Nov. 7 blocked the federal government from requiring tobacco companies to begin putting graphic new warning labels on cigarette packages, cartons and advertisements beginning next year. AWMA will provide more details as we have time to analyze the decision, but we wanted to get this quick note out.

FDA Center for Tobacco Products Website

http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/default.htm

AWMA Survey Question on PACT Act

Are you having difficulty with new state tobacco reporting requirements as the result of the newly enacted Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act (PACT)? If so, please let us know which states are causing problems for you and we’d also like to know which states are not problematic with respect to new reporting requirements under PACT.