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Vol. 50, No. 7, July 2010
| FDA Seeks Public Input On Vending Menu-Labeling
Emily Jed
The Food and Drug Administration is looking for comments to guide it in drafting the regulations needed to implement a law requiring display of calorie content on vending machines...
| | IAMC Founder Matt Cockrell Dies At 92
Tim Sanford
Matthew L. Cockrell, full-line vending pioneer and founding president of the Illinois Automatic Merchandising Council, died late in June...
| | NAMA Backs House's Healthy Choices Proposal
Tim Sanford
The National Automatic Merchandising Association has endorsed the Healthy Choices Act, the first measure that brings together the grocery industry, healthcare and government to comprehensively fight obesity...
| | NAMA Chairman Hesch To Keynote China Show
Tim Sanford
NAMA board chairman Craig Hesch will deliver a keynote address at this month's China Vending & OCS Show in Shanghai. Hesch will speak about the American vending industry on June 26...
| | Paul S. Speagle Dies; Led NCVA
Tim Sanford
Vending pioneer Paul S. Speagle, Sr., is dead at 95. He joined the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Hickory, NC, as a salesman in 1937 and in 1945 cofounded the Seven-Up Bottling Co...
| | Pierre Foods Launches School-Friendly Smart Picks
Emily Jed
Pierre Foods Inc. will unveil its better-for-you Smart Picks line for school foodservice at next month's School Nutrition Association Annual National Conference in Dallas. The product is formulated to provide one or more dietary benefits to schoolchildren...
| | Smiles Activate Unilever Ice Cream Vender
Emily Jed
The interactive marketing firm that helped develop Coke's Freestyle fountain machine has taken the wraps off a smile-activated vending machine commissioned by the world's largest ice cream maker...
| | 'Old No. 7' Jukebox Goes Public
Nick Montano
Formerly offered through specialty outlets only, Rock-Ola's novel Jack Daniel's jukebox is now available to the general public...
| | AGS Names Interim President And CEO
Nick Montano
American Gaming Systems, an emerging supplier in the Illinois video gaming market, named Robert Miodunski chairman and interim president and CEO...
| | Betson Teams Up With Z-Bowl To Launch FEC
by Staff Reporter
Distributor helps new family entertainment center get up and running. Mebane, NC's Z-Bowl has 50,000 sq.ft. of the latest amusements for adults and children, enhanced by good food and a striking architectural setting...
| | California Defends Videogame Ban To Supremes
Marcus Webb
Gov. Schwarzenegger's administration submitted a legal brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that governments should be able to ban youth access to videogames based on content...
| | Five States Raise Cigarette Taxes; NY's Sets Record
Nick Montano
New York's budget bill includes a hefty cigarette tax that went into effect July 1. Hawaii, New Mexico, South Carolina and Utah also imposed new taxes. Separately, provisions of the Tobacco Control Act stated last week...
| | Iowa Settles Final TouchPlay Lawsuit
Marcus Webb
The last remaining lawsuit involving TouchPlay was settled on July 6, four years after Iowa's government barred the video gaming machines...
| | Ohio High Court Hears Skill Game Case
Marcus Webb
Operators in Ohio should be allowed to award prizes worth more than $10 to winners of skill games, according to an argument made before the state Supreme, which will rule later this year...
| | Shelti Opens Texas Distribution Site
Nick Montano
The table game and dart machine maker has opened a warehouse in central Texas. Coin-op products begin shipping from the new depot on July 7...
| | TouchTunes Kicks Off Lollapalooza Sweepstakes
Nick Montano
Concert promoter C3 Presents and Sony's RED are teaming up with TouchTunes to run a sweepstakes that offers jukebox patrons a chance to win a trip to the famed summer music festival...
| | Hood Hound Figurines For Vending Are Back
Hank Schlesinger
A&A Global Industries has announced a licensing agreement that gives the vending supplier the right to manufacture and distribute Hood Hounds figurines...
| | HOW NOW? Veteran Bulk Vendors Imagine Launching A Business Today
Hank Schlesinger
Imagine your first day as a bulk vending operator. You have one machine and a few boxes of product in the back of your car. What is your first stop in trying to place the machine? Veteran operators who have been around the block a few times tell VT how they’d plunge back in…
| | L.M. Becker Completes Transition To Online Sales
Tim Sanford
Product supplier L.M. Becker & Co. has shifted all sales activities to the Internet. Moving its "online storefront to the forefront," the company no longer is taking orders by telephone...
| |  | Will We Ever Learn?
Marcus Webb
Today's amusement trade is blithely, deliberately and needlessly risking one of its most profitable markets. That market is the crane sector...by Marcus Webb
| | Coke Expands Freestyle Test Into Dallas
Emily Jed
Coca-Cola has extended the test of its Freestyle interactive fountain dispenser to the Dallas area. A chicken wing restaurant chai will be the first to offer the fountain...
| | NCA Offers 2010 Coffee Drinking Study
Tim Sanford
The National Coffee Association of USA's 2010 National Coffee Drinking Trends study is now available. The study's sampling is said to be representative of the U.S. population, 18 and older...
| | Atlantic Coast Exposition Registration Opens
Emily Jed
Registration is now open for the 56th annual Atlantic Coast Exposition. The long-running vending trade show and conference will be held from Oct. 14 to 16 in Myrtle Beach, SC...
| | Lieberman Readies Vending Show For July 30
Emily Jed
Lieberman Cos. is expecting more than 200 operators to turn out for its 31st annual vending product and equipment show at the distributor's Bloomington, MN, headquarters...
| | Organizers Expand Exhibit Area For Fall's Enada Rome
Tim Sanford
Italy's long-running fall amusements and gaming show will be held Oct. 6-8 at the Fiera di Roma exhibition center in Rome. Three golden dice, an emblem of decisive action, symbolize this year's Enada Roma...
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AMI Entertainment Network's powerful new jukebox software system enhances music searches, and runs optimally on new and legacy hardware... 
The highly anticipated update for Nascar Racing is now shipping. Called Nascar Team Racing, the latest title in the EA Sports franchise offers new tracks and drivers from Nascar's 2010 team roster...
