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Micro market mania The cookie category winner uses real fruit favor to entice consumers. RUGER®, LLC has introduced RUGER® Strawberry Wafers, with the taste of fresh strawberries. The new wafers have strawberry favored cream between crispy, crunchy wafers. Shelf life is 18 months. Mars Chocolate North America offers a classic candy combination with the 2013 new product of the year candy winner. The Mars Chocolate North America DOVE® Brand Silky Smooth Cookies and Crème bar blends sweet and creamy white chocolate and crunchy chocolate cookie bits into an indulgence that only DOVE® Chocolate can deliver. DOVE® Brand encourages consumers to own moments of chocolate pleasure every day. This new item is available in three formats – single bar, large bar and bags of individually wrapped DOVE® Brand PROMISES® for micro markets. Restaurant-quality taste straight from the microwave is the goal of the food category winner — AdvancePierre Foods Pierre Drive Thru™ Deluxe sandwich. These sandwiches uses high quality ingredients and are available in three varieties, a 100-percent beef cheeseburger with ketchup and mustard, a breaded chicken breast flet sandwich and a spicy breaded chicken breast flet sandwich. All-natural, healthy A low calorie, high-fber product is the winner of the snack category. Kellogg's® Special K® Cracker Chips are hybrid snacks that combine the goodness of a cracker with the light crunchiness of a chip for a snack that delivers great taste, fber and 110 calories per bag. Flavors include cheddar and sea salt. Nestlé Sweet Leaf Tea, the cold beverage category winner, offers a full line of Sweet Leaf Tea made from a superior blend of black and green organic tea leaves in purifed water. Sweetened with pure cane sugar, no high fructose corn syrup, Sweet Leaf iced teas are free from artifcial preservatives, colors and favors. The line of 15.5 ounce cans includes the following favors: original, mint and honey, citrus, lemon, peach and raspberry. OCS and fan-favorite The hot beverage category winner, Barista Prima Coffeehouse® Vanilla Latte Café Beverage for the Keurig® Vue® system, shows the emphasis on premium coffee amongst consumers. Exclusive to the Keurig® Vue® Brewer, Barista Prima Coffeehouse Vanilla Latte Café combines premium gourmet coffee with real milk, real cream and a hint of vanilla to create a true latte lover's delight. Mrs. Freshley's® combines two pastry favorites, Cinnabon® and Honey Buns, for the pastry category winner. Mrs. Freshley's® Cinnabon® Honey Bun pastries are baked with Cinnabon® cinnamon, Mrs. Freshley's® Cinnamon Danish has a cinnamon flling, wrapped in a golden, faky crust, that's drizzled with icing. The Coffee Cake, topped with icing, has the favor of Cinnabon® cinnamon in every bite. And Mrs. Freshley's® has taken its classic honey bun to a new level, swirling Cinnabon® cinnamon throughout the popular icing-topped pastry. All of the products nominated can be found online at www.vendingmarketwatch.com/directory. 2013 Readers' Choice New Products of the Year runner ups Candy: Promotion In Motion Inc. Juicefuls Snack: Clif Crunch Granola Bars Pastry: Cloverhill Brownie Mini Muffns Food: Wilbur Curtis Café Oat Meal 28 Automatic Merchandiser VendingMarketWatch.com Cold Beverage: Snapple Lightly Sweetened Ready-To-Drink Tea Hot Beverage: Mars, Bright Tea Co. Recyclable Freshpacks, Reunion Island Coffee Donut Shop Original Dark Blend April 2013