Press Release

Back to List of Press Releases

Leading Brands, Inc. Initiates Periodic Newsletter

VANCOUVER, CANADA - June 30, 2003 - LEADING BRANDS, INC. (NASDAQ: LBIX), North America’s only fully integrated premium beverage company, announces that, commencing July 1, 2003, the Company will post a monthly newsletter on its corporate website at www.lbix.com. The Company will endeavor to have subsequent newsletters posted on its site by the first business day of each month.

Leading Brands Chairman & CEO Ralph McRae said: “We are taking this step to provide a more frequent flow of information to our shareholders. The newsletters will reflect on the events within and affecting the Company and its operations during the previous month. They will not contain any guidance, estimates or forward-looking statements. I hope that our shareholders find them informative.”

About Leading Brands, Inc.
Leading Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ:LBIX) is North America’s only fully integrated premium beverage company. The Company’s unique Integrated Distribution System (IDS) ™ offers turnkey, one-stop shopping to food and beverage brand owners, including manufacturing, distribution, sales/marketing and licensing. In addition, Leading Brands produces their own line of beverages such as TrueBlue®, LiteBlue®, TREK® Natural Sports Drinks, NITRO® Energy Drinks, INFINITY® Health Water™, Country Harvest® Juices, and Caesar’s® Cocktails.

Forward Looking Statements
Certain information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Words such as “believe”, “expect,” “will,” or comparable terms, are intended to identify forward-looking statements concerning the Company’s expectations, beliefs, intentions, plans, objectives, future events or performance and other developments. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based on information available to the Company on the date hereof. Such statements speak only as of the date hereof. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company’s estimations and projections are disclosed in the Company’s securities filings and include, but are not limited to, the following: general economic conditions, weather conditions, changing beverage consumption trends, pricing, availability of raw materials, economic uncertainties (including currency exchange rates), government regulation, managing and maintaining growth, the effect of adverse publicity, litigation, competition and other risk factors described from time to time in securities reports filed by Leading Brands, Inc.

Back to List of Press Releases