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Soda Vending Machine History
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Late 1960's -
Our
Mod-U-Line was our first entry into the cold drink beverages. We contracted
with a company by the name of La Cross Cooler, to private label a soda vendor
for us. At the time, these units were in high demand at most of the gas
stations across the United
States. These soda machines were unique to
the vending industry. They were much taller than the standard beverage
machine today.
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Early in the 1970's -
We
acquired Selectivend from another leading manufacturer of the beverage
industry by the name of Cornelius. This acquisition launched us into becoming
a full line manufacturer of vending machines. This cold drink vendor
delivered cold cans of product like Coke, Pepsi, and 7-Up to the consumer.
And the ease of filling this beverage machine was a big plus for our vendor
network.
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During the 1980's -
We saw
a big demand on providing different sizes of soda machines. We introduced the
Bertha, Can Mart Series, CD6, Midsize CD8, CD8, and CD10. This allowed a
vending location the ability to place a cold drink machine in about any available
space. Advancement in the soda machine industry was the introduction to the
bill acceptor. This increased sales in the beverage industry by 30 percent.
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1990's -
We
changed our cold drink machines from a can vendor to a bottle and can vendor.
This technology provided different shapes and sizes of products from the
beverage industry to utilize one soda machine to dispense different type of
beverages.
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2000's -
Today a
soda vending machine can have more features than you can imagine. Just think
of a cold drink machine that keeps inventory of space to sales, designed for
outside environment, as well as providing technology platforms to download
data on the internet, self diagnoses, and much more.
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