Vending

Pepsi bottler raises $800,000 for cancer research through vending machines

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April 28, 2021

Pepsi Bottling Ventures, the Raleigh, North Carolina based bottler, raised more than $180,000 for cancer research in 2020 through its Jimmy V vending machines, bringing the eight-year total for the program to nearly $800,000, according to a press release.

"Pepsi Bottling Ventures continues to use its visibility to help the V Foundation raise funds and awareness to fight cancer," Randy Karsten, vice president of business alliances at the V Foundation for Cancer Research, a cancer research charity, said in the press release. "Pepsi's extensive reach offers people across the Carolinas the chance to join the fight against a terrible disease affecting so many of us."

Since 2013, Pepsi Bottling Ventures has donated from the sale of every drink purchased from Jimmy V vending machines to the V Foundation. Today, there are 1,032 dedicated Jimmy V vending machines in North and South Carolina.