Help desk for questions on EVA-DTS and MDB

The EVA is pleased to launch the help desk to support developers by answering application questions, which typically arise when trying to implement one of the standards of the Vending Industry. Read more

What plastic cups really are

I read a lot about vending and all the ingredients and materials used in this business. Read more

Refrigerants

Today I am distributing our position paper on the gas R-134a and I will continue next week. It is a strange feeling because I am the bad guy again. I feel even more so as I have drafted that paper myself. I have been attending the EU Platform for Diet, Physical Activity and Healthy for four years, and I should be used to that, you know not being the good one. But sometimes I do not understand. Read more

Why is vending such an easy scapegoat?

There we go again: earlier this week in the Daily Telegraph the British Heart Foundation was criticizing vending machines in leisure centres and other activity centres because they were selling fizzy drinks and other so-called unhealthy products. The BHF further recommended that these machines should follow the examples of British schools and sell only healthy products. Read more

Blog Action Day

Today is the Blog Action Day’09 Climate Change. It makes me think of the EU Platform for action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. Actions are needed, actions are welcomed and sought by governments, NGOs, companies as we are all living on the same planet. Read more

The lady in the subway

I took the metro the other day to go to an info day at the European Commission. The info day was interesting but the lady in the subway made my day, if I may say so. She was discussing with a handsome guy who was sad because he would not have the time to take a coffee before working as he had to go to a bar for that and that would take him quite of lot of time. Read more

You know what? I am happy.

Here it comes, the surveys will be published on Friday. And you know what ? I am happy, just like our friend Droopy. I am not really into the American way of getting excited but maybe I can give it a try for once : oh my God, oh my God, that is fantastic, I am so excited the surveys are released, I am so happy for the EVA. Well as I am French, I would just say that I am very glad . Read more

Desperately seeking stocking machines…

Why is it that I had to waste time to go and buy stockings during my lunch break whereas I would have been happy to buy them at the airport tonight at a vending machine before flying to AVEX? Read more

Barracuda and the vending industry

One of my emails just bounced back because our IP address is having a "poor" reputation. Could it be that the Barracuda Networks administrator saw that vending was behind the IP address and revenge itself for an inadequate coffee? Read more

My obsession with vending machines

I am quite new in the vending industry. I have to admit that I have never been a hard user of vedning machines and therefore I have never been really aware of their placement, shape or issues a customer may have when using them. Read more