This year's event will be held at Ruffled Feathers Golf Club at 1 Pete Dye Drive in Lemont, IL on September 4th, 2008. Royal Buying Group, Inc. suppliers, and both current and prospective members, are invited.

This year's golf event will again support the Royal Buying Group, Inc. Education Scholarship Program. In order to give back something to the convenience store industry and to help nurture future leaders, Royal Buying Group, Inc. will award educational scholarships to college bound family and/or employees of the RBG membership.

Royal Buying Group, Inc & Royal Buying Group Vendors will be sponsoring free golf and one free night's stay for retailers. We invite all current and prospective members to come and enjoy a day of golf with Royal Buying Group! For additional details or to R.S.V.P please contact Katie Ames at (630) 353-7952.

Cold dispensed (fountain) and bagged ice produce some of the highest gross profit percentages in convenience stores. Fountain ice is a critical, but often underappreciated, part of a foodservice program. Chewblet ice, or nugget ice, can provide retailers another tool to attract and satisfy customers, increase high margin sales, lower operation costs, and promote environmental responsibility.

Chewlet Icemakers

• • Produce chewable ice that over 70% of consumers prefer
• • Increase beverage sales and attract new customers
• • Energy efficient and reduce water consumption by 30%
• • Place up to 75’ away from dispenser to increase installation flexibility and make it easier to sanitize dispensers

All at 50 + 10% off list prices!

Follett also offers the Ice Pro – enabling safe, sanitary, hands free ice bagging, the Ice Manager Diverter value system and Vision Ice and beverage dispensers… all at 50 + 10 + 5% of list prices for RBG members.

Click here for more information. Print out the attached information request page and fax back to RBG at 630-353-7990 or contact your RBG account representative at 888-728-3724.

Royal Buying Group, Inc. (RBG) is pleased to announce that members have earned an average of over $2,856/per location (the top location received close to $9,400) on coffee, cappuccino and allied product rebates for 2007 purchases. RBG negotiated this program to provide not only the lowest level Boyd product cost (based on RBG chain volume), but additional rebates and extensive all-encompassing hot/cold beverage program, for members only.

The RBG/Boyd Coffee program allows retailers to tap into the power of the “coffeehouse” trend with a complete and powerful branding system. A strong brand presence and comprehensive merchandising create the feeling of a warm inviting coffeehouse. This all encompassing program provides free POS, site-by-site category analysis (to maximize each location’s coffee category), equipment program availability, very competitive coffee pricing, additional RBG rebate program, seasonal/promotional products (such as Hi-Rev, increased caffeine…the original energy drink), hot, cold and frozen beverage options, branded cups and supplies, excellent service…a true partner to support your coffee (and freezer) program.

For more information on how you can start earning rebates and growing coffee sales, click here to fill out and fax back your request for more information, or contact your RBG Account Representative at 888-728-3724.