DIT AMCON Distributing Co

AMCON Distributing Company is pleased to announce that it has appointed McGladrey and Pullen, LLP ("McGladrey and Pullen") as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm to audit the Company's financial statements as of and for the year ended September 30, 2006, subject to McGladrey and Pullen's finalization of their standard client acceptance procedures. Andrew Plummer, AMCON's Chief Financial Officer commented "Our audit committee has a charter to review our auditors every five years. After a thorough review they concluded that McGladrey and Pullen was the firm best qualified to serve the needs of our organization. McGladrey and Pullen has opened a new office in Omaha and is staffing our account with seasoned accounting professionals who understand our industry. We look forward to this relationship." AMCON continues to expeditiously move to complete its interim financial statements for the first, second and third quarter of fiscal 2006. AMCON is a leading wholesale distributor of consumer products, including beverages, candy, tobacco, groceries, food service, frozen and chilled foods, and health and beauty care products with distribution centers in Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Chamberlin's Natural Foods, Inc. and Health Food Associates, Inc., both wholly-owned subsidiaries of The Healthy Edge, Inc., operate health and natural product retail stores in central Florida (6), Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma (4). The retail stores operate under the names Chamberlin's Market & Cafe and Akin's Natural Foods Market. Hawaiian Natural Water Company, Inc. produces and sells natural spring water under the Hawaiian Springs label in Hawaii and other foreign markets and purified bottled water on the Island of Oahu in Hawaii. The natural spring water is bottled at the source on the Big Island of Hawaii. This news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties and which reflect management's current beliefs and estimates of future economic circumstances, industry conditions, Company performance and financial results. A number of factors could affect the future results of the Company and could cause those results to differ materially from those expressed in the Company's forward-looking statements including, without limitation, availability of sufficient cash resources to conduct its business and meet its capital expenditures needs. Moreover, past financial performance should not be considered a reliable indicator of future performance. Accordingly, the Company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to all such forward-looking statements. Visit AMCON Distributing Company's web site at: www.amcon.com