Instead, they considered their competition on a broader level including handbags, breath mints, and candy.
Just as Penguin mints were rolling out in 1998, in came the big guns.
Now Stinky was peddling Whoppers and Junior Mints, and this was even more perplexing.
Good luck trying to find the mints: Penguin is sold in only 15, 000 stores, mostly apparel shops.
The company mints money from drugs that the big pharmaceutical outfits no longer want and turns them into profits.
Wrigley had claimed that magnolia bark extract, an ingredient in the gum and mints, contributed to the germ-killing capabilities.
Then the human smells come through: aging flesh, perfume, breath mints, sweat, tobacco.
Gum and mints have shown blistering growth in emerging markets such as China.
The difference is that with Thin Mints, Samoas and other Girl Scout treats, "you're buying a product, " says Mr. Trenka.
Brown considers Snus and another new Camel invention, dissolvable nicotine mints called Orbs, as transparent attempts to market tobacco to children.
Lounge chairs and pillow mints are to be found only at the top end of first-class service, called Silver and Blue.
He's got a bright eye and he looks at you and he's, you know, popping mints and carrots out of your hands.
The Perth Mint is one of a handful of elite global mints, on par with the U.S. Mint and the Royal Canadian Mint.
The sensor is capable of detecting alcohol even in cases where the driver has attempted to disguise his breathe with gum or mints.
An entrepreneur selling mints in tins with a Democratic donkey logo was barred from the convention because his tins were made in China.
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It measures 6.6 feet high by 5.25 feet wide by 4.1 feet deep and is decorated with giant cookies, lollipops, gummies, mints and gumdrops.
The mints and snuff are made with specially cured tobacco that contains fewer so-called tobacco-specific nitrosamines powerful carcinogens formed from nicotine and other alkaloids during tobacco fermentation than regular cigarettes.
Items that go the extra mile include luxurious hand lotion and mints or blackcurrent pastilles set out on a nice tray by the sink for guests.
Barry Callebaut, based in Europe, has purchased Brach's (maker of StarBrites mints, Milk Maid Caramels and Maple Nut Goodies), also to obtain a solid American presence.
It comes back into the Reinsch house in Snickers bars, Ragout spaghetti sauce, Peter Pan peanut butter, Girl Scout cookies, Certs breath mints, and almost any kind of crispy snack food.
Sales of Penguin mints, meanwhile, have been growing by 100%.
Mr. Mints's father, Boris, who at the time was chairman of OFC's management board, founded O1 Properties in August 2010 and tapped into OFC to form the executive team.
Significantly, APMEX is a well-established company that buys directly from sovereign mints, and operates securely from the Oklahoma City building that once housed the local Federal Reserve branch.
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Phil Howes, prosecuting, said police later found a pack of opened quinine tablets, which are used for treating leg cramps and arthritis in adults, next to a pack of mints.
And in more germane terms, there's presently no rhyme or reason why HTC has continually outgunned Samsung in terms of design prowess, yet continues to bleed cash while its Korean rival mints it.
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Mr. Mints says he would welcome the return of more institutional investors to Moscow as it would work to increase the value of O1 Properties' assets and bring more liquidity to the Russian market.
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