Guayaki Yerba Mate Gains Distributors

"Sebastopol, CA – June 17, 2008) - Yerba mate has been one of the hottest drink trends in the natural products marketplace for the past couple of years, but now the invigorating drink from South America is also positioned to make a big splash in mainstream USA. Guayaki Sustainable Rainforest Products (www.guayaki.com), the pioneer and leading yerba mate brand in the U.S., is announcing several new partnerships with some of the most prestigious beverage distributors on both the East and West Coast.

The new distributors noted below, in southern California, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, provide Guayaki with a comprehensive network of distributors up and down the west coast and eastward to the Rocky Mountains. Guayaki’s award-winning line of Organic Yerba Mate Drinks is gaining shelf space fast at a wide variety of retail outlets including mainstream grocery chains in many of the most populated areas of the U.S. such as New York City and Los Angeles. Some of the larger grocery chains that currently sell or have authorized Guayaki’s drinks for this summer include: Albertsons; Vons; Kroger; Fry’s; Safeway; Shaw’s; Raley’s; Wegmans; Ukrop’s; HEB; United Supermarkets; and Meijer. It is also noteworthy that mainstream convenience stores are selling Guayaki, including hundreds of 7-Eleven stores."

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