Skinny Nutritional Corp. (SNKY.OB) has signed new agreements with three of the largest beverage distributors in the state of Minnesota. The deals bring Skinny Water, a new, zero-calorie, multi-functional water, to a market of five million Minnesota consumers, including the Minneapolis market, the largest city in the state. Skinny now has four Anheuser-Busch distributors as part of its distribution expansion to work with beer wholesalers around the country.

Capitol Beverage Sales, L.P, Minneapolis; Thorpe Distributing Company, Rogers, Minn.; and College City Beverage, Dundas, Minn., will be carrying all five Skinny Water flavors — and distributing them to consumers through thousands of distribution points, including convenience stores, grocery stores, drugstores, work-out facilities, salons, and spas throughout the state.

“Beer distributors across America want to carry more non-alcoholic premium products, and tapping into the demand for Skinny Water is a great way to do that,” says Don McDonald, president and CEO of

When you manufacture and distribute approximately 1.9 million tons of ice annually, you know you’re doing something right. That’s what Reddy Ice Holdings, Inc. does consistently and hopes to continue to do for a long time. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, they are the largest manufacturer and distributor of packaged ice in the United States.

Reddy Ice Holdings Inc. employs over 2,000 employees year-round. They manufacture and distribute their products under the Reddy Ice brand name to 82,000 locations in 31 states, plus the District of Columbia. The company distributes their products to supermarket chains, mass merchants, convenience stores, wholesale ice and food distributors, commercial users, resorts and restaurants, agricultural buyers, and competitive producers and self-suppliers.

As part of the Processed and Packaged Goods industry, they trade on the NYSE. Their current market capitalization is $278.97M. Reddy Ice Holdings Inc. has 63 manufacturing plants and 59 distribution centers in the country. The