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Circus comes to town for AVS 40th birthday bash


The Associated Vending Services (AVS) Group celebrated a milestone 40 birthday by hosting a fun-filled evening of entertainment and good food at the Custard Factory in Birmingham. The AVS was established in 1979 when a small group of independent, privately owned vending companies created a members’ consortia to exchange information and ideas to benefit all. This arrangement has now endured for 40 years. On March 21, after an AVS members’ meeting at the International


Convention Centre in Birmingham, 360 guests including founder members, old staff, buying groups, and suppliers old and new, gathered for a mingle in an urban circus themed event with street food supplied by the Digbeth Dining Club. Digbeth Dining is described as a premier Street Food venue.


Featured regularly on TV (most recently on James Martin’s ITV show) these traders are highly skilled chefs who have chosen to go it alone and fight the rising tide of chain restaurants. They are self-funded entrepreneurs who’ve risked it all to provide


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