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McLane, Town & Country Food Stores Announce Service Agreement

Posted on: Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 15:00 CST

McLane Company, Inc. and Town & Country Food Stores, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a distribution service agreement that will be effective through 2008.

Town & Country Food Stores, Inc. is a leading convenience retailer where operations span over a 107,000 square-mile area of Texas and New Mexico. Town & Country offers convenience 24 hours a day for more than 1.1 million customers every week in more than 144 convenience stores. Town & Country also operates 15 travel stops, 23 Subway locations and several Godfather Pizza locations.

The Town & Country locations provide a number of proprietary offerings including 89 Country Cookin' outlets, Sub City sandwich operations, "the Cold Front" fountain area, "The Hot Spot" hot beverages centers and the frozen, carbonated beverage "TC Freeze."

The emphasis for Town & Country is always on outstanding service to the customer and their slogan says it all: "Good Value, Great People, that's the Town & Country Difference."

Alvin New, President and CEO for Town & Country Food Stores, Inc. said, "Our service agreement with McLane positions our company well to continue serving our customers with quality products and services - especially fresh foods - and to accomplish our vision of great people reaping the rewards of great service."

"McLane is ready to help Town & Country provide its customers with the outstanding products and service they have come to expect and we are committed to supporting Town & Country's business goals and contributing to their success," Ron Clark, President of McLane's Southwest and High Plains divisions said.

About Town & Country Food Stores, Inc.:

Town & Country Food Stores Inc. is an employee-owned company with over 1,800 employees founded in the 1960's and headquartered in San Angelo, Texas. The company, through cautious and prudent expansion, currently operates 144 convenience stores and seven T&C Village Market locations throughout West Texas and Eastern New Mexico.

For more information about Town & Country Food Stores, Inc. please visit www.tcfs.com.

About McLane Company, Inc.:

McLane Company, Inc. provides distribution services throughout the United States, delivering food and non-food products to more than 50,000 customer locations, including the convenience store, drug store, mass merchandise, quick service restaurant and movie theater industries. Headquartered in Temple, Texas, the company operates 19 grocery distribution divisions and 18 foodservice distribution centers as well as an industry specific software company. McLane, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRKA)(NYSE:BRKB), employs some 14,000 people nationwide.

For more information about McLane Company, Inc. visit us at www.mclaneco.com.

Source: Business Wire

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