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Vol. 51, No. 12, December 2011
| ConAgra Acquires National Pretzel Co.
Emily Jed
ConAgra Foods Inc. agrees to acquire National Pretzel Co. from Brookstone Holdings Inc., continuing the packaged foods giant's strategy to grow its private-label business...
| | Gift Card Kiosks Roll Out In 100 Malls
Emily Jed
General Growth Properties is deploying GiftWise gift card vending kiosks at its 100 of its shopping malls in time for the holiday shopping season...
| | Hershey To Acquire Canadian Confectioner
Emily Jed
British Columbia's Brookside Foods has patented formula for making chocolate-covered fruit juice pieces. It also makes traditional chocolate-covered nuts and dried fruit...
| | Kraft Q3 Earnings Rise 22%
Emily Jed
The food giant and vending leader saw net profit rise 22% during the third quarter, helped by price hikes to compensate for higher ingredient and packaging costs. Earnings reached $922 million...
| | NAMA: Debit Swipe Fee Resolution Is Imminent
Emily Jed
A resolution that will bring the vending industry relief from recent changes in debit card swipe fees is imminent, the National Automatic Merchandising Association reports...
| | Next Generation Acquires Zappia Vending
Emily Jed
Sixty-year-old Zappia Vending Service Inc. has provided vending services to customers in the Rochester, NY, area from its base in nearby Newark, NY...
| | USAT Ends MasterCard Debit Transactions
Emily Jed
Higher interchange fees resulting from the Durbin Amendment have made the cost of processing MasterCard debit cards prohibitive for small-ticket transactions...
| | USAT Q1 Revenue Climbs 51%
Emily Jed
The provider of cashless transactions at vending machines said its revenue increased 51% to $6.7 million from $4.4 million in the first quarter of 2011...
| | Bay Tek To Show Four New Games At IAAPA
by Staff Reporter
The game maker from Wisconsin is introducing four games at this week's IAAPA Attractions Expo. Chameleon Paradize and Crank It Revolution headline the rollout...
| | Benchmark Unveils New Games At IAAPA Show
Nick Montano
Super Hoops, a basketball game with moving rim, and Stop It, a prize merchandising ideal for street locations, lead off company's lineup debuting at Florida show...
| | Bundestag Legal Committee Chair Keynotes IMA
Tim Sanford
Siegfried Kauder, a member of Germany's Parliament and its Legal Committee chairman, will keynote January's IMA international trade fair for amusement and vending machines...
| | C&N Sales' Harlow Norberg Dies At 79
Nick Montano
Harlow Norberg of C&N Sales Co. Inc., a 90-year old music and games operation based in Minnesota, died on Oct. 30. The cause was cancer...
| | HB Leisure Launches U.S. Presence
Marcus Webb
HB Leisure Ltd., a British operation, is moving into the U.S. where it will operate games at Legoland parks located in Florida and California...
| | Illinois Awards SciGames VLT Contract
Marcus Webb
Vending Times has learned that the Illinois Gaming Board has, for the second time, awarded the contract to create and run the system for VLTs to Scientific Games...
| | IT Previews All-New PowerPutt Live Videogame
by Staff Reporter
Amusement machine operators will get their first look at Incredible Technologies' fully redesigned PowerPutt videogame at the IAAPA Attractions Expo in Florida this week...
| | Namco Plans Tournament In U.S. Arcades
Marcus Webb
Namco Bandai and Mad Catz, a provider of competition-grade arcade sticks, are putting on a tournament for the highly anticipated Tekken Tag Tournament 2-Tag Assault...
| | Swedish School Welcomes Gum
Hank Schlesinger
Students at a middle school in Parsokolan, a small town in northern Sweden, can now chew in the classroom...
| |  | Unfinished Business
Tim Sanford
The arrival of a new year is a good time to reflect on what we have done, and also what we have yet to do. Over the past four decades, the vending and coffee service industries certainly have made great progress from the early "seat-of-the-pants flying" management approach to sophisticated analyses of contributors to cost and profit. But there still is work to be done... by Tim Sanford
| | | Why Not Make Business Resolutions?
Hank Schlesinger
There's something hopeful to be said for the traditional list whose sole purpose is self-improvement. It is one of the rare traditions that implore us to take stock of ourselves... by Hank Schlesinger
| | | Working 'On' Your Business
Marcus Webb
Successful businesspeople often talk about the importance of working "on" your business, not working "in" your business. Others stress "becoming a real entrepreneur. Sounds interesting, but what does it mean? by Marcus Webb
| | DS Waters Acquires Deep Rock Water
Emily Jed
DS Waters of America Inc., a nationwide bottled water supplier and office coffee service provider, has acquired Denver-based Deep Rock Water Co...
| | Starbucks Q4 Profit Jumps 29%
Emily Jed
Starbucks Corp.'s profit climbed nearly 29% in the fourth quarter, beating Wall Street estimates. The coffeehouse giant earned $358.5 million, or 47¢ a share, up from $278.9 million, or 37¢ per share, last year...
| | Collateral Damage: Regulation Is No Substitute For Integrity, And Costs A Lot More
by Kevin Daw
In speaking with some of the folks we buy from, I learned that they too had accounts with MF Global. Since coffee trading is the only thing they do, the numbers involved represented a far greater percentage of their total cashflow and the impacts ranged from the not too good to the utterly disastrous... by Kevin Daw
| | | Moving Ahead So Life Won't Pass Us By
Alicia Lavay
So many of us struggle with the issues of how our lives fit into the greater scheme of things. Some might think this a "spiritual" question. In the context of this column, spirituality means... by Alicia Lavay
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An apartment complex in Taylorsville, UT, will be the first location of its kind to get one of Shop24 Global's robotic convenience stores... 
Myrna Dorfman returns as president and chief executive at Allstar Vending, a bulk and flat vending supply organization she founded 20 years ago... 
