In 2021, CPI joined forces with Crane Merchandising Systems to market vending and coffee machines. Crane's legacy brands include Automatic Products, Dixie-Narco Inc., GPL, National Vendors, Stentorfield and Streamware.
Crane Merchandising Systems launched simplifi™ BI (Business Intelligence) Analytics and VendMAX™ 5.0.12 in February 2019. simplifi is Crane’s next generation cloud platform for...
Crane Merchandising Systems launched the telemeter CORA in January 2019. CORA includes a custom-designed 4G LTE antenna that exceeds carriers’ performance specifications, integrated...
The Crane Co. Currenza Systems Navigator is a cashless ready telemetry device that offers flexibility in the field and features enhanced capability. It offers remote connectivity...
The currenza combination (combo) cash and card bezel is designed to attract customers. Its bright, full-graphics screen clearly communicates transaction status to provide an intuitive...
Crane Merchandising Systems offers simplifi, its next generation Cloud platform for enterprise and connectivity software designed for operators to manage their business on the...
Crane Merchandising Systems will launch MEDIA2 later this year. The new intuitive user interface is designed to influence consumer behavior with suggestive selling through a patent...
Crane Merchandising Systems announced the launch of Intelligent Store™ for its Merchant MEDIA and BevMAX MEDIA machines. Intelligent Store leverages the connectivity of the fully...
Crane Merchandising Systems announced the launch of VOCE Media, its newest hot drink machine that features coffee shop-quality taste. The VOCE Media range of up to 32 selections...
Crane’s new Media Touch is changing the way consumers experience vending, helping operators win new business and increase same-store sales. The state of the art design includes...
Crane’s new BevMAX Media has all the benefits of a BevMAX 4, but has also been designed to enhance the consumer experience and meet the operational needs of bottlers and vending...
Crane demonstrated its newest technology at the NAMA OneShow 2016 in Chicago. Among the demonstrations and displays were the MEDIA machines being employed for PepsiCo’s Hello ...
The ramifications of the new health care bill on the refreshment services industry probably wont be clear for a few years. In the meantime, vending operators should brace themselves...
Larsen Vending has excelled by finding its perfect niche in the large, competitive convenience services market in Phoenix, AZ. For vending, it was serving the high-risk apartment...
The number of connected vending machines continues to grow. Cashless devices are on more than a million machines, and telemetry-enabling devices are on even more. Yet operators...
The U.S. consumer shopping experience is rapidly evolving — more consumers are shopping online now than they were five years ago; they are using mobile payments and in-store mobile...
For years, handhelds were the preferred method of downloading vending machine data. They were faster than paper and pencil, allowed the data to be used in a vending management...
Operators attending the NAMA National Expo in Chicago last month learned there are bills in Congress that include language governing calorie disclosure in vending machines.
The National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA) OneShow April 28 to 30 at Chicago’s McCormick Place West Hall is an event designed for leaders in automatic merchandising...
Crane’s new Merchant Media has all the benefits of the Ambient Merchant with the consumer experience of Media Touch to drive same-store sales growth. The 7” color touchscreen ...
It’s hard to believe we’re fast approaching the mid point of 2011. The months speed by fast when you’re trying to keep up with the pace of change in our industry.We began the ...
Crane Merchandising Systems offers its new “Get Connected” program for cashless capabilities. Following a successful field trial where it partnered with a new payment processing...
V-Engineering gives vending operators an opportunity to see the challenges, solutions and innovations of the vending, micro market and office coffee service industry.
Culinary Ventures Vending (CVV) in Union, N.J. is dedicated to vending — specifically vending machines. The 43-route vending company, which serves the tri-state area of New Jersey...
As the number of Generation Y consumers continues to grow, so has the emphasis on innovative technology. Consumers want to be wowed with new and exciting equipment, and will be...
What’s a former national hotel executive doing in the rough-and-tumble, work-a-day vending business in Orlando, Fla.?Gary Arwin is leveraging the skills he acquired in nearly ...
Scott Meskin, president of Black Tie Services Inc. in Baltimore, Md. is in the process of converting all snack machines to include gum trays that can vend blister pack gum. The...
When Andy and Bonnie Stein started Mark Vend Co. in suburban Chicago in 1962, they had one employee, two trucks, and a few dozen machines that dispensed only cigarettes. Fast-...
