Winning Brands Corporation (WNBD)

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USA Store Growth since September 2011

has really starting to accelerate too. First a look from where came from.

USA

1/1/2010 – 659 (per store tracker – back in day)

1/1/2011 – 1,266 (per blog – from company)

2/29/2012 – 2,039 est. (per store tracker state changes; plus Do it Best 418, Duane Reade 213 not on store locator)

Of course not all Do it Best are USA, but I don’t know what is international of their total (but I wouldn't say over 10 per PRs noting new countries)

650+ stores are recent additions by Do it Best (418) and Duane Reade (213) and Lancaster later part of 4th quarter 2011 through February (so big bulk of this jump is ‘recent additions’)

(one can take out the 200 or so C-Stores from 2011 total and also 2/29/12 total - I don't care, the fact is more stores are increasingly coming on board in my opinion - at same time company has better promotional/marketing material and doing more live demos/instruction/showing/etc.)

Support for the above 650+ store recent additions

Do it Best

Blog March 3rd

90 additional Do it Best stores started to carry 1000+ Stain Remover in February 2012, bringing the total number since activation of the account in October 2011 to 418. In December, January and February, the number of individual stores replenishing their supply from earlier orders also grew each month. These are still early days, but a positive trend has been established.

Duane Reade

Press Release Oct 27, 2011

reports that deliveries in NYC to supply 213 Duane Reade outlets are now underway. Duane Reade is a business unit of Walgreens and is New York’s pre-eminent drug store chain. www.DuaneReade.com

Winning Brands CEO, Eric Lehner, comments: “Things are going smoothly. This launch will be followed in due course by a series of in-store demonstrations to enhance awareness amongst Duane Reade shoppers in the busiest locations. With the number of participating launch outlets at 213, we will be able to reach more New Yorkers than first planned – the launch is now more than twice the size of the original concept.

Lancaster Distributing

Blog March 9th

The report is in today – our associates at Lancaster added 21 new stores in February, by means of first orders of 1000+ Stain Remover to be drawn from Lancaster inventory. We thank these new stores for joining the 1000+ retailer community. Winning Brands is determined that 1000+ Stain Remover become much better known to the hardware / home improvement / paint sector in 2012. Lancaster is one of the distributors who will help us deepen our reach into this sector for 2012.

Blog Jan 17th

Seem to be picking up some steam in our work with Lancaster. An additional 32 independent paint/hardware store locations since last report in Alabama, California,Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland. Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.

So Recap of above:

Do it Best 408 (418 less 10)
Duane Reade 213
Lancaster 53 (32+21)

Total = 674 stores (over 5 months, just from these 3 entities)


More about Lancaster 'rebirth'

Blog Sep 27th

During the Lancaster restucturing, there was a pause in store listings growth. Now with the restucturing behind it, Lancaster serviced store counts are starting to grow again. Today’s report from Lancaster features 14 new locations in the following cities, taken from an alpha store list: