DENVER and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Koios Beverage Corp. (CSE: FIT; FITSF) (the “Company” or “Koios”) is pleased to announce that its Fit Soda™ functional beverages have been approved for placement at all Ingles Markets locations. Ingles Markets is an American supermarket chain based in Black Mountain, North Carolina. As of September 2021, the company operates 198 supermarkets in the Southeastern United States. It reported 4.987 billion in revenue in 2021 and currently has 26,000 employees1.
From the Ingles Markets website:
Robert Ingle’s background certainly qualified him to know the preferences of shoppers in his territory. A member of a third-generation grocery family, he worked in a grocery store started by his grandfather in Asheville, North Carolina where the company headquarters is still located.
Robert Ingle opened the first Ingles supermarket in Asheville, North Carolina in 1963. He saw an opportunity to invest in smaller towns and rural communities throughout North and South Carolina that were being underserved by large grocery chains. It was a strategy that proved so successful that expansion into similar communities in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia soon followed. Ingles now operates approximately 200 stores in six southeastern states with annual sales of almost $4 billion.
In 1982, Ingles found a strategic partner by purchasing a milk processing facility. Milkco, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, not only…
