Any members, suppliers or customers of the industry, or indeed members of the Vending Star Chamber itself, are welcome to submit interesting and topical subjects for comment.

Members of the Vending Star Chamber

• Barry Bennett, current Chairman of the Automatic Vending Association
• Carl Bjorkstrand, Managing Director of N&W Global Vending
• Richard Gibson, European Marketing Director, MEI Group
• Susan Nash, Communications Manager with Kraft Foods UK and founder board member of Paper Cup Recovery and Recycling Group
• Andy Porter, European Managing Director of Crane Merchandising Systems
• Kevin Reed, National Sales Manager, Siemens Financial Services
• Charles Trace, Chief Operating Officer with Coffee Point Group, and past Chairman of AVA
• Brian Tustain, Director of Associated Vending Services and AVA representative on the European Vending Association
• Gary Unsworth, Managing Director of Aimia Foods, and past Chairman of AVA
• Roger Williams, Managing Director of Coin A Drink, previous board member of AVA, founder board member of EVA and board member of Save A Cup Recycling Company.

Timely theme for discussion

Falling as it does in December we chose this, the third, Vending Star Chamber feature to give the members the opportunity to reflect on 2008 and then look ahead to 2009 - likely to be a mixture of positives and negatives for the vending industry, - giving views, hopes and fears.