The June/July issue of Automatic Merchandiser magazine reports on the state of the vending industry in 2011. The road to recovery has been slow in the recession, for both automatic merchandising and the multiple industries it serves.
Fiscal 2011 saw trends from the previous year continue, as the vending industry slowly recovers from the massive fallout of the Great Recession. In 2011, industry sales declined for the fourth consecutive year, although at a progressively slower rate. The 1.5 percentage point sales decline in 2011 was half the rate posted in 2010, indicating vending operators made progress in stemming the downward trend. For the full article click here.
