KATY, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 9, 2026--
Today, Igloo, The Cooler Brand, launches the Gripper CoolBox 10 Qt Cooler, a new personal cooler engineered as a modern, highly durable everyday lunchbox. Purpose‑built for a wide range of daily routines — trade professionals, factory crews, delivery drivers, office commuters and anyone who needs their food and drinks to stay fresh through long, demanding days — the Gripper CoolBox delivers on durability, performance and utility; it’s available now at igloocoolers.com/coolbox.
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“As we designed the Gripper CoolBox, our team focused on building a lunch cooler that truly supports the workman through the entire day,” said John Maldonado, Senior Director of Product Design at Igloo. “We put a great deal of thought into how real lunches are packed — making sure containers sit flat, adding an attic compartment to protect crushable snacks and engineering a base and latch system that stays put and stays shut through daily handling. Every decision was about practical performance and handy organization, so whatever your workday looks like, your lunch is fresh and ready when you are.”
Built as “The Hardworkin’ Lunchbox,” the Gripper CoolBox features a fully insulated, injection‑molded construction that provides impressive ruggedness and extended ice retention, plus a convenient built‑in gripper handle, leak‑resistant gasket, toolbox‑tough latches and a stay‑put rubberized base. Priced at $59.99, the 10‑quart cooler offers substantial capacity to pack meals, snacks, bottles and containers for long days — whether those days are spent at a worksite, in a warehouse, across delivery routes or squeezing in lunch between meetings.
Thoughtfully crafted with unexpected organization, the Gripper CoolBox incorporates attic‑style lid storage with a flexible clip‑in divider to easily secure snacks, canned drinks (up to 3) or ice substitutes. The cooler’s main interior space generously holds up to 8 cans or a combination of containers, snacks and drinks. Together with its rugged construction and smart internal layout, the Gripper CoolBox delivers the performance and ease that help make busy days feel more manageable — and lunch breaks more enjoyable.
The Gripper CoolBox 10 Qt Cooler is available now at igloocoolers.com/coolbox, Walmart and Academy Sports + Outdoors.
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About Igloo:
Born from a modest metalworking shop back in 1947, Igloo has been instrumental in redefining how we live, work and play. What began with bringing clean water to the worksite quickly moved into super-functional, best-in-class ice chests. Igloo products made the family outdoor recreation movement of the 20th century possible. Suddenly, taking your kids camping on the weekend became easy and cross-country road trips became a summer vacation staple.
As we approach our next century, Igloo is 1,200 employees strong. We are proud to call—a 1.8-million-square-foot, three-building facility in—Katy, Texas home. With more than 500 products sold at thousands of retailers around the globe, we can confidently call ourselves the number one cooler manufacturer in the world.
And through it all we haven’t lost sight of our original goal—to create products that enable the pursuit of happiness (however you define it). That’s why we’re still working hard every day to innovate, create and make it easier for you to get out, work hard and play even harder.
Durable and feature driven, Igloo engineered its brand new personal cooler for every worker from jobsite pros to office commuters
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices climbed back toward $100 per barrel on Thursday, while stock markets worldwide slowed following their big gains from the day before.
The S&P 500 flipped from a small loss to a gain of 0.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 77 points, or 0.2%, as of 11:45 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% higher. Earlier in the day, stocks fell across much of Europe and Asia as the United States, Iran and Israel disagreed on the details of their two-week ceasefire, whose announcement had sent markets flying in optimism on Wednesday.
The oil market was jumpier, and the price for a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude oil climbed 5.6% to $99.70. It rose after semiofficial news agencies in Iran suggested forces have mined the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that has been at the center of President Donald Trump’s demands of Iran. Blockages there have kept oil and natural gas stuck in the Persian Gulf, away from customers worldwide.
Brent crude, the international standard, rose 2.3% to $96.95 per barrel. It’s still below the $119 level that it briefly reached when worries about the war reached their height, but it remains above its roughly $70 level from before the war.
Given how far apart the United States and Iran seem to be in their demands, upward pressure on oil prices may be “here to stay for a while” according to strategists at Macquarie led by Thierry Wizman. Risks remain for renewed fighting, which could cause customers worldwide to hoard whatever oil supplies they do get. That could itself keep oil off the market, much like actual fighting targeting pipelines or oil tankers.
On Wall Street, Constellation Brands climbed 6.3% for one of the market's bigger gains after reporting stronger results for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The company, which sells Modelo beer and Robert Mondavi wines, said it saw encouraging trends heading into its new fiscal year. But it pulled its financial forecasts for the following fiscal year because of “limited near-term visibility” and other factors.
CoreWeave rallied 3.7% after announcing an expanded, $21 billion deal with Meta Platforms to provide AI cloud capacity through December 2032. Meta rose 3.1%.
On the losing end of Wall Street was Simply Good Foods, which dropped 18.2% after reporting a worse drop in revenue than analysts expected. CEO Joe Scalzo called the results unsatisfactory and said the company behind the Quest and Atkins brands is making immediate changes to turn around its performance.
A suite of mixed reports on the U.S. economy also helped to keep Wall Street in check. One said an underlying measure of inflation that the Federal Reserve considers important was slightly hotter in February than economists expected. It decelerated before the war with Iran began, but not by as much as economists expected.
A separate report said that more U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week than economists expected. The number was not very high compared with history, but it could indicate an acceleration in layoffs.
Treasury yields swiveled up and down in the bond market following the reports.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury edged down to 4.27% from 4.29% late Wednesday.
It, though, remains well above its 3.97% level from before the war, which has sent rates up for mortgages and other kinds of loans going to U.S. households and businesses.
If oil prices stay high and keep upward pressure on inflation, the Federal Reserve would have difficulty resuming its cuts to interest rates to help the slowing economy, even if the job market weakens. A growing number of Fed officials seem to be considering the possibility of a hike in rates, according to minutes of their latest meeting released on Wednesday.
In stock markets abroad, South Korea’s Kospi fell 1.6%, and Germany’s DAX lost 1.1% for two of the world’s biggest moves.
AP Writers Chan Ho-him, Matt Ott and Aniruddha Ghosal contributed to this report.
Robert Greason works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Currency traders watch monitors near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top left, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Currency traders work near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top center, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, top center left, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
A currency trader works near a screen showing international oil prices at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
