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Departments

• Coffee Trends: Coffee in Uniform.
• Coffee Trends: coffee.net.
• Coffee Trends: Countertop Evolution.
• Coffee Trends: Go Ask Smith.
• Coffee Trends: Look Before You Leap!.
• Coffee Trends: Rhymes With Coffee.
• Coffee Trends: The American Factor.
• Coffee Trends: The Better the Blend….
• Coffee Trends: The Health Factor.
• Coffee Trends: The Risk Factor.
• Coffee Trends: Traditional Foodservice And OCS Convergence .
• Dispensing Strategies: A House Of Cards.
• dispensing strategies: A Penny Left on the Table.
• Dispensing Strategies: An Extra Jolt.
• Dispensing Strategies: Are Your Customers Online Or In Line?.
• Dispensing Strategies: Brandits.
• Dispensing Strategies: Clicking With Youth Culture.
• Dispensing Strategies: Frankenbrands.
• Dispensing Strategies: It’s a Guy Thing.
• Dispensing Strategies: Lean times.
• Dispensing Strategies: Lemmings.
• Dispensing Strategies: Mad Money.
• Dispensing Strategies: Retro Youth.
• Dispensing Strategies: Self-Serve Retail Reps Wanted.
• Dispensing Strategies: Transients.
• Dispensing Strategies: Vending Trends 2008.
• Guest Column: Common Colours.
• innovative insights: Professional Extinction.
• Innovative Insights: Self-Assertive.
• Innovative Insights: Simple Logic.
• operator’s perspective: Cleanliness: It’s not rocket science..
• Reflections In A Cup: Caffeine Anyone?.
• Reflections In A Cup: Coffee, The Beverage Of Class.
• Reflections in a Cup: Guessing Game on Coffee Prices.
• Reflections In A Cup: Irrational Exuberance In The Coffee Market.
• Reflections In A Cup: On Goverments, And Eating At School.
• Reflections In A Cup: The Changing Marketplace.
• Reflections In A Cup: Value Judgments.
• Reflections In A Cup: What’s Your Price?.
• Solution Selling: Characteristics Of Successful Salespeople.
• Solution Selling: The Barf Factor.
• Solution Selling: The Fear Factor.
• Solution Selling: The Power Of Follow-Up.
• Solution Selling: Think Before You Speak.
• Solution Selling: Who’s Costing You Money?.

Editorial

• FROM THE EDITOR: April 2006.
• FROM THE EDITOR: April 2007.
• From the Editor: December 2005.
• From the Editor: December 2006.
• From the Editor: December 2007.
• From the Editor: Exploding Like A ‘Star’.
• From the Editor: Healthy Approach.
• FROM THE EDITOR: Jan/Feb 2006.
• From the Editor: January/February 2008.
• FROM THE EDITOR: July/August 2006.
• FROM THE EDITOR: July/August 2007.
• From the Editor: June 2005.
• FROM THE EDITOR: June 2006.
• FROM THE EDITOR: June 2007.
• FROM THE EDITOR: March 2006.
• From the Editor: March 2007.
• FROM THE EDITOR: May 2006.
• From the Editor: May 2007.
• From the Editor: November 2005.
• From the Editor: November 2006.
• From the Editor: November 2007.
• From the Editor: October 2005.
• FROM THE EDITOR: October 2006.
• From the Editor: October 2007.
• From the Editor: Rate Of Change.
• From the Editor: September 2005.
• FROM THE EDITOR: September 2006.
• From the Editor: September 2007.

Features

• A Matter Of Consumption.
• A New Lease on Life.
• Anyone Can Captain a Ship in Calm Waters.
• ASI Reports Success, But Also Sad Loss.
• Battle for Coffee Vending Superiority.
• Beverage Sales Bubble.
• CAMA Connection: Association Updates.
• CAMA Connection: Bringing The Team Together – Vancouver 2007 .
• CAMA Connection: Communication Initiatives.
• CAMA connection: Reflections On CAMA 2007.
• CAMA Connection: Waves Of The Future.
• CAMA Connection: Working Towards Partnership.
• Canadian Tee-off.
• Canadian Vending Online: March 2008.
• Canadian Vending Online: May 2008.
• Category Management 1.
• Coin Recycling Worth $1 Billion.
• Common Sense Security.
• Comparing Apples....
• Customer Service From The Inside Out.
• Don Storey Award.
• Driving Camaraderie.
• Editor’s Notebook: Fear And Loathing In Coin-op.
• Expanding The League.
• From the Show Floor (NAMA).
• Get Accountable.
• Get More Redemption.
• got milk vending?.
• Gourmet Coffee Popping Up In Unexpected Places.
• Guest Column: Risky Business.
• Guest Column: Your Clients Are Satisfied?.
• Guest Column: You’ve Fallen … And Don’t Know How To Get Up.
• Healthy Benefits Help Peanuts Shed Stigma.
• Healthy Dose Of Coffee.
• Healthy Vending Makes Food Sense.
• How Much Is Your Business Worth?.
• Is Technology The Key To Implementing A New Business Model?.
• Letting Parents Control The Vend.
• Making A Difference.
• Martell Recognized By Peers.
• More Myths About Multicultural Customers.
• Most Canadians Want Nutritional Snacks.
• New Meal Solutions.
• No Novelty In Genesis.
• Opening Doors.
• Operators Perspective: Keeping Your Word And Building Trust.
• Operators Perspective: Science Behind Weathering Winter.
• Operator’s Perspective: Customer Communications.
• Operator’s Perspective: Eco-friendly vending.
• Operator’s Perspective: Link Between Health And Business.
• Operator’s Perspective: Professional Associations: Increasing Membership Increases The Value.
• Organizers Label AMOA ‘Major Success’.
• Partnership Key To New Project.
• Pod Invasion More Infusion.
• Politicians joining video games fan club.
• Pool Industry Speeds Up.
• Putting The Squeeze On.
• Reflections In A Cup: An Ethical Recipe For Success.
• Reflections In A Cup: Coffee and the Church of the Warming Globe.
• Reflections In A Cup: New Coffee Formula.
• Reflections In A Cup: On Water and Taxes.
• Reflections In A Cup: Where Do Prices Come From?.
• Reflections In A Cup: Work Ethics.
• Regroupement de l’équipe – Vancouver 2007.
• Roll Up Success.
• School Foods Under Further Examination.
• Shake It, Lose It.
• Snack Food Makers Face Threats Of Regulation.
• Solution Selling: Be My Guest.
• Solution Selling: Communicate to Succeed.
• Solution Selling: Don’t Waste My Time! .
• Solution Selling: How Not To Handle A Cold Call.
• solution selling: The Power of Questions.
• Solution Selling: The Tidal Wave Sale.
• Solution Selling: The Trust Factor.
• solution selling: Who’s Costing You Money?.
• Stomachman: So You Think You Can’t Afford To Advertise.
• Study shows caffeine content in sodas varies widely, labels needed.
• Sugar-free Gum Has Oral Health Benefits.
• Tea Gets Funky Bags, Serious Provenances.
• The Forecast calls for….
• The GPS Solution.
• The Sweetest Thing.
• The Transparency Vaccine.
• Turn Your Business Around In A Changing Economy.
• Turning Japanese.
• Vending Revolution in China.
• Video Games Need Women’s Touch.
• What Is chocolate?.
• What puts money in your pocket?.
• Wrigley Takes To Lab In Battle For Candy Supremacy.

Blog

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• Full Of Gas.
• Headed Where?.
• Is the "experience" over?.
• The Pinball Tilt.

Current Issue

Departments

• Coffee Trends: Are They Getting Younger?.
• Coffee Trends: Coffea Populi.
• Coffee Trends: Coffee Colas.
• Coffee Trends: Drink Responsibly This Summer.
• Coffee Trends: Free Trade and the Coffee Exporters.
• Coffee Trends: Highly Tuned Coffee Proboscis.
• Coffee Trends: Ice is Nice.
• Coffee Trends: R’n’R and R Café.
• Coffee Trends: The Fair Trade Tree Grows Branches.
• coffee trends: United Flavours Of The World.
• Coffee Trends: Urban Coffee and the Legends.
• Coffee Trends: What’s In A Price?.
• Coffee Trends:The Dynamics of Organics.
• Dispensing Strategies: Alter Egos.
• Dispensing Strategies: Echo Location.
• Dispensing Strategies: FUNctional Foods.
• Dispensing Strategies: Game Girl.
• Dispensing Strategies: Going Sideways.
• Dispensing Strategies: H2 Oh!.
• Dispensing Strategies: Healthy Margins.
• Dispensing strategies: Joined At The Chip.
• Dispensing Strategies: Moving Pictures.
• Dispensing Strategies: Murphy’s Law.
• Dispensing Strategies: Pocket … Change.
• Dispensing Strategies: Self-Serving Motives.
• Dispensing Strategies: The Art Of Tea.
• dispensing strategies: Turning Up The Heat.
• Dispensing Strategies: What Customers Want.
• Dispensing Strategies: Wrapped In Cotton Candy.
• Innovative Insights: Dumb And Dumber.
• Innovative Insights: Making Decisions.
• Innovative Insights:Renewed Enthusiasm.
• Reflections In a Cup: Coffee and Energy.
• Reflections in a Cup: Coffee News, Heavy & Light.
• Reflections In A Cup: Coffee Tech and the Atmosphere.
• Reflections in a Cup: Do Ideas Matter?.
• Reflections In A Cup: Ethics, Economics And Fair Trade.
• Reflections In A Cup: Knowledge and Change.
• Reflections In A Cup: New Coffee Slogan?.
• Reflections In A Cup: Titillating Tidbits on Brew Cups and Pods.
• Reflections In A Cup: What’s Cookin’ In Coffee?.
• Solution Selling: A Winner’s Attitude.
• Solution selling: Characteristics Of Great Sales Negotiators.
• Solution Selling: How To Sell To Anyone.
• Solution Selling: I Propose.
• Solution Selling: The Power of Confidence.
• Solution Selling: The Power of Self-Development.
• Solution Selling: Want To Increase Your Sales Immediately?.

Editorial

• From the Editor: Chicken Little.
• From the Editor: Economic Roller Coaster.
• From the Editor: Gone fishing.
• From the Editor: Grinding Economics.
• From the Editor: July-August 2005.

Features

• Always Hot.
• ASI Wraps Up Chicago Stay.
• Before You Sign ….
• Beware Best Business Practices.
• Bridging The Gap.
• CAMA Connection: Advocacy: What’s In It For Me?.
• CAMA connection: CAMA Expo Sold Out.
• CAMA connection: Positive and Profitable.
• CAMA connection: The Future Of Kiosks And Vending.
• Canadian Cash? No Problem.
• Cash, Debit, or Cell?.
• Cashless Conversion On The Horizon.
• Coffee Trends: Bears and Bulls and Coyotes, Oh My!.
• Coffee trends: RFID and the Coffee Lover’s Dream.
• coffee trends: The Health Factor.
• Coffee Trends: The Weight .
• Eleven Ways For Tough Times.
• Energy Overload.
• Entrepreneurial Hiring.
• First Impressions Count.
• Five key points for hiring.
• Food Guide To Tackle Portions.
• Four Keys To Selling Your Business Online.
• From Family To Fit.
• From Generation to Generation.
• From On Site To On-line.
• Gaming Is Growing Up.
• Ghost-wary PACMAN Turns 25.
• got milk vending?.
• Grande Prairie Boy Has Grand Dreams.
• Guest Column: Confront Your Way To Success.
• Guest Column: The Value Of Saying Thanks.
• HACCP Big Deal For Suppliers.
• Health Canada announces regulations for lead content.
• Innovative Insights: Adaptation.
• Investigating Onsite Foodservice.
• Is Your Company Without A Rudder?.
• Jukebox Looking For Comeback.
• Losing Its Fizz.
• Lost Good Employees?.
• Mergers, Acquisitions and Bulk Vending.
• Montreal Uncovers.
• National Ticket Celebrates 100 Years.
• New Arena For Growth.
• Niche Products Could Mean Profits.
• Ontario Cashless System Wins Gold.
• Operator's Perspective: The Three R’s of Vending.
• Operator’s Perspective: Keeping Up Professional Appearances.
• Operator’s Perspective: Pleasing Everyone is Exhausting and Unprofitable.
• Operator’s Perspective: Sizing Up The Issue Of Portions.
• Peanut Phobia.
• Plugging Your Cash Flow Leaks: Guidelines To Discovering And Plugging Them For Good.
• Public Demand For Disclosure Behind Trans Fat Removal Movement.
• Recovering Lost Revenue.
• Reflections in a cup: All The Public Really Wanted Was....
• reflections in a cup: PC Gone Wild.
• Reflections In A Cup: The Coffee Market, And A Retailer Of Interest.
• Remote Monitoring.
• Silverball Supremacy.
• Six Small Steps To Breaking Out Of A Big Rut.
• Snackdown 2007.
• Solution Selling: Are Your Policies Hurting Your Business?.
• Solution Selling: Setting Goals.
• Solution Selling: Take Out The Trash.
• Solution Selling: The Myth About Price.
• Solution Selling: Your Approach Makes a Difference.
• Stern Signs Licence For Shrek.
• Summit Focuses On Growth.
• Sweet and Sugar-free.
• Take Action On Your Future.
• Technology And Your Bottom Line.
• The Future Could Be In Your Hands.
• The Knock-Off Threat.
• The New Generation.
• Think Outside the Box.
• Time To Stand Up And Be Seen.
• Trends Suggest Time To Revamp.
• University Challenge To Clinton Claims.
• Unlock The Power And Potential Of Your Team.
• Video Game To Fight Childhood Obesity .
• Video Games Ad-ding New Business?.
• Visiting a Trade Show:30 Quick Tips.
• Wave of Wellness.
• When The Going Gets Tough.
• Why Some Cultures Have to Negotiate.
• Wrigley Calls On Science To Prove Benefits.
• Your Clients Aren’t As Loyal As They Used To Be.

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• 2" Batman Danglers.
• Allstar Adds Sugar And Bounce.
• Clearly Canadian To Develop New Product Line.
• D.V.M. modified vending machine invented.
• Football for flat vending.
• Leading movie rental kiosk operator TNR Entertainment exclusively selects NCR .
• Loose Change: December 2006.
• Merit releases new software for spring.
• Monkeyin around at Allstar Vending.
• New Game From ICE.
• New Game From IT.
• New game from Smart.
• New Locks From Southco.
• New Nick Jr. Series Released.
• New Option For New Generation Photo Booth.
• New redemption distributor.
• Phone Card Vending Machine.
• Spearmint flavoured 'Mini Thin Rush' energy gum makes debut.
• Tattoo Mania At Allstar.
• VirtuPlay Goes International.
• Wheel Of Fortune From Stern.

News

News

• A list of products recalled by Lucerne Foods due to possible contamination.
• Aramark Acquires Les Connaisseurs.
• B.C. court tosses recycling lawsuit.
• B.C. Hospitals Ban ‘Junk’ Food.
• Best Buy to launch airport gadget vending machines.
• Blockbuster to deploy DVD vending machines.
• Bon Jovi wants energy drink to change name.
• Bottled water ban OK'd by city council.
• Cadbury Schweppes Plans Spinoff.
• Cadbury Schweppes’ 2005 Profit Surges.
• Candy co. launches online game.
• Candy maker raising prices.
• Capital Vending offering LED light strips.
• Charges Dropped.
• Chinese Authorities Raid Pirates of Merit Games.
• Chocolate bars are fruit pies recalled.
• Chocolate Bars Play Up Link Between Cravings, PMS.
• Chocolate company raising prices.
• Clearly Canadian Goes South.
• Coca Cola cutting jobs.
• Coca-Cola Amatil trials cashless vending machines.
• Coffee heads for second weekly drop on Brazilian crop.
• Coffee Wilt could cut Uganda output by 35 per cent.
• Coke bids for Chinese juicemaker.
• Coke Deal Reached, Blak Killed.
• Coke Rolls Out New Campaign.
• Coke, Nestle Revisit Partnership.
• Cola War Gets More Sporty.
• Colombia coffee growers get aid to boost output.
• Crane Aquires Telequip Corp.
• Dixie-Narco On The Block.
• Drink Makers Restrict Marketing Aimed At Children.
• Dunn appointed general manager to head NSF’s beverage quality program.
• Dure Foods Appoints Mark Chambers.
• Emeril In K-Cups.
• Feds should monitor trans fats in doghnuts and margarine: health group.
• Food Bar Sales Pass $3 Billion Mark.
• Food labels have us confused.
• Food Network To Feature Vending.
• Full List of Maple Leaf recall items.
• Fun Expo moves in ’09 .
• Getting Stern On YouTube.
• Glive Joins Kane’s.
• Green Mountain Coffee to add manufacturing facility in Tennessee .
• Green Mountain Delivers First Fair Trade Soda.
• Halifax cutting back on bottled water .
• Hasbro Inks Deal With Skee-Ball.
• Health Canada Tests Pop.
• Heat Sensitive Lid Wins Packaging Award.
• Heritage Coffee buys Vancouver roaster.
• Hot food vending machine inspired by NASA technology launches in UK.
• Humpty Dumpty Falls In Brampton.
• HWi to Distribute JCM Products.
• Instant Yogurt Product Comes To Vending.
• IT Mourns Passing Of Julia Lewis.
• Jittery chemist developing caffeine ‘dipstick’.
• Keurig Sale Complete.
• Kraft Sells Beverage Line.
• Largest field ever expected next week for Golden Tee World Championship.
• Macy’s Introduces In-store Vending.
• Malaysian Authorities Bust Pirates.
• Manitoba bans trans fats.
• McDonald’s Offers Premium Coffee.
• McMochas.
• Megatouch Force Replacing Maxx.
• Merit Hires Bob Fay To Fight Fakes.
• Merit releases new software for spring.
• Merit to Discontinue Maxx Kits.
• Merit Trains Chinese Customs Officials.
• NAMA adds program to Florida event.
• NAMA names show chairman.
• NAMA seeks companies for corporate social responsibility showcase.
• NAMA Unveils Web Tool Kit.
• Namco Files Suit.
• Nestle to spent $200 million, create 135 jobs in Indianapolis.
• New Drinks Key To Coke’s Success.
• New game from VirtuPlay.
• New Juice Aimed At Consumer Demands.
• New Owners fro MEI.
• New Probiotic Snacks.
• New redemption distributor.
• New U.S. $5 Bill In September.
• New Water Systems From Aramark.
• NHL Trades Beverage Firms.
• No ‘Chip Cops’ For Alberta.
• Now That’s Some Bite.
• Ocean Spray and PepsiCo Form Strategic Alliance.
• Organic coffee market hits $1 billion.
• Osborne Acquires Van Brook.
• PayPal Payment Module for eSecure Cashless Vending.
• Pepsi Bottling Group Cutting Jobs.
• PepsiCo To Offer Low-Calorie Gatorade.
• Photo Booth Adapted For Canadian Market.
• Politicians, consumers out of sync on bottled water.
• Popcorn eater files lawsuit.
• Quebec joins other provinces in attacking vending.
• Russia joins EVA.
• Saputo Inc. looks to change.
• School-based Fundraising To Be Tracked.
• Seasonal Drinks Boost Income.
• Sessions Announced For IBWA Expo.
• Settlement will reduce carcinogens in potato chips.
• Shareholder Tightens Grip.
• Skee-Ball Moves Phoenix Plant.
• Smith Retires.
• Soft drink maker cuts profit projection.
• Soft drink sales continue to be flat.
• Starbucks Selling Rwandan-Grown Coffee.
• Streamware Adds DEX Cash Audit Trial To Test Drive.
• Strong coffee sales.
• Stronger rival if Cott merges with Cadbury Schweppes.
• Subsino Games In North America.
• Sugar-free Gum Has Oral Health Benefits.
• Sweet tooth could be genetic.
• TouchTunes Offers Free Conversions.
• TouchTunes partners on air guitar championships.
• Tweety Line Grows.
• U.S. man tries to visit every Starbucks in the world.
• Van Houtte Sells Its Stake In Keurig.
• Vancouver considering bottled water ban in city-operated facilities.
• Vending on History Channel.
• Venditalia celebrates 10 years.
• Venditalia celebrates 10 years.
• Water activists push for ban of bottled water in city buildings.
• Watson to chair NAMA spring expo.
• Western Coin Vending information session.
• Western VNEAs Continue To Attract.
• Wrigley to debut new sugar free-gum.
• Zip Key Revalue Easier.
• ‘Food Stress’ Forcing Change.
• ‘May contain’ statements under review.

Newsletter

August2008

• A list of products recalled by Lucerne Foods due to possible contamination.
• Best Buy to launch airport gadget vending machines.
• Blockbuster to deploy DVD vending machines.
• Candy maker raising prices.
• Settlement will reduce carcinogens in potato chips.
• Soft drink maker cuts profit projection.
• Soft drink sales continue to be flat.
• U.S. man tries to visit every Starbucks in the world.
• Water activists push for ban of bottled water in city buildings.

July2008

• Coffee Wilt could cut Uganda output by 35 per cent.
• Feds should monitor trans fats in doghnuts and margarine: health group.
• Food labels have us confused.
• Vancouver considering bottled water ban in city-operated facilities.

May2008

• Business Growth Slows.
• Full Of Gas.
• NAMA names new director.
• New redemption distributor.
• New snack bars.
• Upgrade available from EVA.

Web Exclusives

January 2008

• A Three-Step Internet Plan for Improving Profits.
• Eils to retire from NAMA.
• Full Of Gas.
• Get maximum results from your coaching experience.
• Software Upgrade From Merit.
• The Seven Sins of Strategy.
• The Social Jukebox Is Born.
• The Upside to the Downturn: 7 Ways to Strengthen Your Business During Economic Tough Times.
• Timothy’s Launches White Hot K-Cup.
• VPC exclusive vending distributor of Nutribar.