While competitive pressures and commodity prices continued to challenge vending, micro market and coffee service operators in 2013, more business owners reported adding technology and effectively addressing sales data and logistics to increase profits...
“I knew that was going to happen.” Personally, I hate these words, because when I hear them, typically something has gone wrong. And usually that means the person uttering them didn’t say anything during the process. It was only after the fact...
(CHICAGO) July 1, 2014 – NAMA recently mobilized a strong grassroots effort to protect the vending and refreshment services industry, other coin-acceptance industries, and customers from potential changes in coin currency by the U.S. Mint.
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MINNEAPOLIS (July 7, 2014) / PR Newswire / — General Mills is tapping into the latest consumer-driven food trends with its new lineup of product innovation launching this summer. Cheerios Protein cereal, LÄRABAR RENOLA grain free granola, Chex...
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a law that would raise the state’s minimum wage from $8 per hour to $11 per hour by 2017, according to Boston Herald. Officials in the state believe the new law would affect 600,000 minimum wage workers...
The Society For Human Resource Management (SHRM) annual conference and exposition took place from June 22 to June 25, 2014 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. The SHRM exposition is the largest human resources solutions marketplace in...
PORTLAND, OR (June 24, 2014) – PayRange, a turnkey mobile payment system, announces the appointment of Brian Gill as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Sales. The announcement comes as PayRange prepares to begin shipping product later this...
John Derrick has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award for 35 outstanding years in the vending industry. The award was presented to Derrick at the New England Spring Meeting by 2014 meeting Chairman Jeff Terban of Burdette Beckmann.
Derrick began...
NORTHFIELD, Ill., June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRFT) today announced the appointment of George Zoghbi to the newly created executive position of Vice Chairman, Operations, R&D, Sales and Strategy, reporting directly to...
A bill that would increase California’s minimum wage to $13 per hour was approved by the state Senate and sent to the Assembly, according to Bloomberg. If passed in the Assembly, the bill will move to California Governor Jerry Brown. Full article .
(CHICAGO) May 29, 2014 – NAMA’s Senior Vice President Eric Dell announced a major victory for the industry in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee voted to include report language in its fiscal 2015...
Indiana’s Jon Ford recently won the primary election in Indiana’s Senate District 38. He recounts how the industry has prepared him for a role in politics and why industry advocacy is so important.
Working in our industry has prepared me to...
