NEWS ARCHIVES

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HEADLINES

Machines with healthier choices, a positive step
Dec. 31, 2009 – Students at Grand Valley State University discovered new vending machines at four residence halls this year were lacking cheesy chips and chocolate-drenched candy bars.

Vending machine gives people a break, literally
Dec. 29, 2009 – Katja Kublitz and Ronnie Yarisal have created a machine that literally gives people a break, it provides a cheap, therapeutic but playful approach to stress.


Calorie disclosure legislation ineffective
Dec. 29, 2009 – A group representing some of the nation's most prominent vending companies called on Congress to drop language that would require vending companies to disclose the caloric content of vended food and beverage products prior to the point of sale.

Burn cals to get candy from vending machine
Dec. 29, 2009 – The Spanish inventor Pep Torres from the studio Stereonoise, who also created the flowerpot that automatically rolls your plants into the sunlight, has thought up a vending machine that only dispenses the snacks once you have burned enough calories.

Supermarkets get approval for wine vending
Dec. 29, 2009, Sunbury — Two supermarkets in the Valley are expected to get vending machines that sell bottles of wine by the middle of 2010, pending a final agreement between the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and store management.

Demand to drop calorie disclosure requirements
Dec. 23, 2009 – Louisville, KY – A group representing some of the nation's most prominent vending companies today called on Congress to drop language that would require vending companies to disclose the calorie information on vended products.


PA wants to install wine vending machines
Dec. 23, 2009 – More than 100 Pennsylvania grocery stores are expecting to get vending machines that sell wine, according to an Associated Press report.

AVT Acquires Vend Perfect
Dec. 22, 2009 – AVT, Inc. (formerly Automated Vending Technologies), has acquired software rights, intellectual property and copyright material for "Vend Perfect" to use in conjunction with AVT designed and manufactured vending and product dispensing systems.

Plus Vending to expand to India
Dec. 22, 2009 – After selling over 3,000 beverage vending machines and premixes, Plus Vending Corpn; one of the leading manufacturers & marketers, has decided to venture into other regions of the country.

Hanging together, or seperately
Dec. 17, 2009 – Our earliest vending industry memories are of traveling around the country to speak with the first generation of full-line operators in the late 1960s.