Leading Edge Brands is a soft drink marketing and manufacturing company based in Temple, Texas. Leading Edge Brands (LEB) is part of the McLane Group, which is headed by Drayton McLane, Jr., (also CEO of Major League Baseball's Houston Astros). LEB's CEO is Webb Stickney, and its products are distributed in the United States, the Caribbean, Mexico and the South Pacific. In 2009, in Detroit, Michigan purchase the Frostie and Kist brands.