Cadbury plc has confirmed it notes the announcement on 30 September by the Takeover Panel Executive that it has imposed a deadline of 5.00pm on 9 November 2009, by which time Kraft Foods Inc must, unless the Takeover Panel...

The EVA / Datamonitor studies have been published recently and were very well received by the industry. EVA are confident that they will be of interest to all of you! The studies are a 290-page report, with dozens of...

The EVA’s Annual General Assembly and the Workshop on the “Image of Vending”, will take place in Brussels on 2 and 3 December 2009. Please note that the deadline to register for this event is the 15th of November....

The Samsung/Kraft Foods/Crane Merchandising System’s “diji-touch” touchscreen vending machines grabbed the consumer media’s attention during the NAMA National Expo in Chicago. The high-tech vender that allows a user to scroll digital representations of candy and snacks was introduced during...

The latest must have fashion comes from a charity called Bottletop which has trained 33 people from their community project in Salvador, Brazil to make handbags using discarded ringpulls. The ringpulls are collected by the homeless who can earn...

The European Vending Association is pleased to welcome its latest new member: Vendin, a leading Spanish company specialised in the production of instant products supplying high quality ingredients for hot beverage vending machines. The EVA is pleased to have...

AMS is delighted to announce the release of CyberKey Blue, the latest addition to the powerful CyberKey range that now includes CyberKey Plus, CyberKey Rechargeable and CyberKey Rechargeable XD. Robust, On-Demand Access Control CyberKey® Blue is a rechargeable key...

The latest market penetration figures and figures for recognition of the FAIRTRADE Mark were released at the Fairtrade Foundation’s annual Commercial Conference in September. The research shows continued consumer confidence and business support for Fairtrade in the UK and...