THE VENDIES THE VENDIES
Cele brating a vibrant, succ essful industr y
VI features editor Heather Ramsden catches up with to Tower Leasing’s Kevin Reed about what the Vendiesmeans to the industry and why Tower is getting involved this year
WHAT DOES TOWER LIKE ABOUT THE VENDIES? The Vendies is an industry-recognised event with excellent networking opportunities.
It allows both suppliers and operators to promote what’s new and exciting and their accomplishments during the year.
It also recognise s success in the sector and demonstrates the harmony throughout vending with representation across the sector.
WHY ARE YOU SPONSORING ‘BEST OPERATORWEBSITE’ CATEGORY?
At Tower, we believe in embracing technology; demonstrating this with our own award-winning powerful internet gateway. We recognise a powerful and professional website along with internet-enabled sales tools are major requirements for modern growing businesses.
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We also believe the winner of this category will be a forward thinking and successful operator who will have embraced this excellent way to communicate, support and grow with their clients. To further endorse this we have developed To
To Tower Extra, a web
portal that not only provides instant decisions on proposals but also allows clients to analyse their existing database and raise personalised paper work with a click of a mouse. In addition, we have launched our own new website which increases our brand presence and supports those within the vending sector.
WHY SHOULD THE INDUSTRY GET INVOLVED BY ENTERING, VOTING AND ATT ENDING ?
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We are all involved in one way or another in this wonderful industry. Involvement in the Vendies does not necessarily require entering categories. Supporting the event can be by attending the awards evening, supporting the show beforehand or joining your colleagues for an entertaining evening, collectively recognising the many achievements that will be focussed upon at the event. Vending is a vibrant and successful industry and we should recognise this and enjoy all of our successes. All in all, this adds to growing and strengthening the vending world .
HOWHAS THE SECTOR CHANGED IN THE PAST YEAR? DO YOU THINK THISWILL BE REFLECTED IN THE 2018 VENDIES?
The beauty of vending now is we are embracing the changes of technology, we see better designed and feffficient vending machines available. Better q uality drinks from machines,mo re bean-to-cup ,
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premium coffffee, table-top coffff ee and more barista-style machines. These offff erings are also complemented with different views on snacks and bottle solutions. As a result, the evolving marketplace and the awards will highlight forward-thinking suppliers and the diversity of the marketplace, supporting businesses to deliver the needs of their consumers.Old adages ‘the customer is king’ and ‘service delivery is paramount’ haven’t changed and quiet rightly will again be
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OES TOWER HAVE TO OFFER recognised in the awards.
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Tower are very proud to offff er a one-stop thinking approach towards business. With an experienced team to process,
OPERATORS ANDWHAT
underwrite and provide fast solution with a forward-
payments; our driver is to provide a quality service combined with cost-effff ective solutions to support and help to grow operators businesses, their customer portfolios and sales opportunities. Tower offers a complete finance solution:
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•With real focus on how we can work together to help your business grow;
• Industry leading acceptance rates;
• Flexible underwriting with decisions between one to 24 hours (subject to trading type);
• Fast payment upon completed installation;
• Specialist finance available not just for ‘Blue Chip’ customers but SMEs and New Start Businesses;
• High ly competitive finance package s tailored to your customers ; • Vending specialisation – we understand your business; • 29 years in business supporting suppliers and operators; • Online proposal and business platform; • Electronic and digitally-signed paperwork; • Full sales support from your dedicated team at To • Alternative finance solutions (vehicle, finan cing) .
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