OLD TAPPAN, NJ -- (Marketwire) -- 07/22/10 -- New Leaf Brands, Inc. (OTCBB: NLEF) ("Company"), a provider of great tasting, all natural, healthy beverages, today announced the expansion of their distribution with Whole Foods Market® through 42 additional Southern Pacific division stores.
Whole Foods Market is the world's largest retailer of natural and organic foods with more than 270 stores throughout North America and the United Kingdom. The company has authorized distribution of New Leaf's unique tea flavors sweetened with 100% organic cane sugar, in 42 additional stores in the Southern Pacific division which includes Southern California, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii. New Leaf is already available in Whole Foods' Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and Rocky Mountain Division stores.
"We are very pleased to broaden our relationship with the largest natural and organic food grocer in the world," stated Eric Skae, New Leaf President and CEO. "Our relationship with Whole Foods has been a success thus far and the expansion in the West is a great milestone for our company. We continue to gain critical mass on the shelves of fine food retailers with more shelf space allocated for our products to meet the demand for our healthy beverages. New retail outlets are being added daily and we expect the same response in these new locations. Overall case sales continue to increase in our key markets as repeat sales have grown exponentially with each new retail account."
About New Leaf Brands, Inc.:
Founded by Eric Skae in 2004 in Orangeburg, New York, New Leaf Brands (OTCBB: NLEF) was born out of the vision to provide consumers with a healthy and great tasting beverage. New Leaf Brands are available in 12 unique tea flavors sweetened with 100% organic cane sugar, 4 lemonades made with 6%-10% real fruit juice and sweetened with 100% organic cane sugar and 2 diet iced teas sweetened with Splenda™.
In the US, the refreshing beverages can be found in over 12,000 outlets including restaurants, delis, health food stores, pizzerias and other retail establishments. For more information, please visit http://www.newleafbrands.com/ or follow New Leaf on Twitter @DrinkNewLeaf and become a fan on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Leaf-Tea/142029534279?ref=ts).
This press release may contain forward-looking statements, made in reliance upon Section 21D of the Exchange Act of 1934, which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties or other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results, performance, or expectations implied by these forward-looking statements. The Company's expectations, among other things, are dependent upon general economic conditions, continued demand for its products, the availability of raw materials, retention of its key management and operating personnel, its ability to operate its subsidiary companies effectively, need for and availability of additional capital as well as other uncontrollable or unknown factors which are more fully disclosed in the Company's Form 10-Ks and 10-Qs on file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contacts:
Company:
David Tsiang
CFO
New Leaf Brands, Inc.
dtsiang@newleafbrands.com
(845) 365-1570
Media:
Danielle Terzian
Carolyn Izzo Integrated Communications
dterzian@ciicnews.com
(845) 358-3920, x14
Investor:
Alan Sheinwald/Mark McPartland
Alliance Advisors, LLC
asheinwald@allianceadvisors.net
markmcp@allianceadvisors.net
(914) 669-0222
