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Automatic Vending Machines

Author : Colin Emmins

Publisher : Bloomsbury Shire Publications

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 36,62 MB

Release : 1995-01

Category : Vending machines

ISBN : 9780747802877

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In high streets, railway stations, canteens, leisure centres and many other places we buy goods from automatic vending machines as a matter of course. Public telephones, electricity and gas meters and even parking meters are such familiar providers of services in exchange for a coin in the slot that they are almost taken for granted. Automatic vending has developed dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century but its origins go back a hundred years or more; indeed the earliest description of an automatic vending device - a dispenser of holy water - is much earlier, some 200 years BC. Of the early British machines the most evocative are the tall, thin, cast-iron ones which sold chocolate and cigarettes. These comparatively simple machines were to be seen everywhere. From such mechanical dispensers to modern electronic equipment selling all manner of goods and services while coping with a changing mixture of coins or even with plastic cards, the book illustrates the evolution of automatic vending machines as they have in turn responded to and stimulated social changes in a busy world.



The Automatic Vending Machine Industry

Author : United States. Business and Defense Services Administration. Scientific, Photographic, and Business Equipment Division

Publisher :

Page : 30 pages

File Size : 39,95 MB

Release : 1962

Category : Vending machines

ISBN :

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Vending Machines

Author : Kerry Segrave

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 291 pages

File Size : 20,7 MB

Release : 2015-10-05

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0786481595

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Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest reference to a vending machine was made by Hero--a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who probably lived in Alexandria during the first century a.d.--who described and illustrated a coin-operated device to be used for vending sacrificial water in Egyptian temples. Completely automatic, the device was set in operation by the insertion of a five-drachma coin. This work traces the history of the vending machine from its inception to its current place in popular American culture, with the eight chapters covering significant eras. Successes and failures of the machines, economic factors influencing the popularity (or lack thereof) of vending machines, and the struggle of industry to become a dominant, large-scale method of retailing products are discussed. This text is richly illustrated and includes appendices on vending dollar value, vending sales by location type and vending statistics.





Automatic Vending Machines World Summary

Author : Editorial Datagroup

Publisher :

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 39,76 MB

Release : 2019-07-30

Category :

ISBN : 9781086323146

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The Automatic Vending Machines World Summary Paperback Edition provides 7 years of Historic & Current data on the market in about 100 countries. The Aggregated market comprises of the 31 Products / Services listed. The Products / Services covered (Automatic vending machines) are classified by the 5-Digit NAICS Product Codes and each Product and Services is then further defined by each 6 to 10-Digit NAICS Product Codes. In addition full Financial Data (188 items: Historic & Current Balance Sheet, Financial Margins and Ratios) Data is provided for about 100 countries. Total Market Values are given for 31 Products/Services covered, including: AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINES 1. Automatic vending machine manufactures 2. Automatic merchandising machines, coin-operated (vending), excl money changing machines, coin-operated mechanisms & parts 3. Automatic merchandising machines, coin-operated (vending) 4. Coin-operated mechanisms & parts for automatic merchandising machines 5. Coin-operated mechanisms for vending machines, sold separately 6. Coin-operated mechanisms which are time switches 7. Other coin-operated mechanisms for vending machines 8. Parts for automatic merchandising machines, except coin-operated mechanisms 9. Coin-operated mechanisms & parts for automatic merchandising machines, nsk 10. Auto. merch. mach., coin-operated mech., incl. time switches 11. Coin-operated mechanisms for auto. merch. mach. (incl. parts) 12. Coin-operated mech. (time switches) & other coin-oper. mech. 13. Parts, auto. merchandising/money changing/dispensing mach. 14. Parts, auto. merchandising mach., exc. coin-operated mech. 15. Parts for money changing and dispensing machines 16. Auto. merch. mach., coin-operated mech. (time switches), nsk 17. Currency handling mach., incl. money changing/disp. mach. 18. Mach., sorting/wrapping/counting/etc. currency handling mach. 19. Money changing and dispensing machines 20. Currency handling machines, nsk 21. Automatic merchandising machines, nsk, total 22. Automatic merchandising machines, nsk, nonadministrative-record 23. Automatic merchandising machines, nsk, administrative-record There are 188 Financial items covered, including: Total Sales, Pre-tax Profit, Interest Paid, Non-trading Income, Operating Profit, Depreciation, Trading Profit, Assets (Intangible, Intermediate + Fixed), Capital Expenditure, Retirements, Stocks, Total Stocks / Inventory, Debtors, Maintenance Costs, Services Purchased, Current Assets, Total Assets, Creditors, Loans, Current Liabilities, Net Assets / Capital Employed, Shareholders Funds, Employees, Process Costs, Total Input Supplies / Materials + Energy Costs, Employees Remunerations, Sub Contractors, Rental & Leasing, Maintenance, Communication, Expenses, Sales Costs + Expenses, Premises, Handling + Physical Costs, Distribution Costs, Advertising Costs, Product Costs, Customer + After-Sales Costs, Marketing Costs, New Technology + Production, R + D Expenditure, Operational Costs. /.. etc.