Monumental Vending

Monumental Vending

Monumental Vending is a vending machine operator that has been in business since 1991. The company is based in Beltsville, MD and services the Baltimore and Washington metropolitan region. The company is the largest, private vending company in the region and actively touts its reliance on technology including wireless connectivity to every machine as a key differentiating feature.[1]

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Company

Monumental Vending was started in 1991 by Craig Kushner and David Gordon with a single vending machine. The two have guided the company through 20+ years of growth and they remain very active in daily management. Craig Kushner has been elected as a Board Member for NAMA.[2] Monumental Vending hired Richard Barney as the company’s Chief Operations Officer. The company employs 46 people from drivers to technicians to warehouse employees in their Beltsville, Maryland warehouse. Current clients include BWI Airport, Northrop Grumman, and the Library of Congress.

Technology

The company has seen sales growth every year in part as a result of leveraging technology. Monumental Vending was the first vending company in the U.S. to receive service alerts from vending machines in need of repair and was one of the first vending companies anywhere to use handheld technology for drivers and to install wireless technology throughout their 2,700 vending machines.[3] Additionally, Monumental Vending also leverages cashless payment options, $1 and $5 bill acceptors, "ShureVend" technology, and the newest energy-efficient machines.

Services

Beverages

Monumental Vending offers a full line of Coke and Pepsi products, fruit juices, water, sports drinks, energy drinks and more.

Snacks

Monumental Vending provides snacks from manufacturers including Frito Lay, Utz, Nabisco, Mars, Hersheys, Snyder's, Clif, Planters, Kellog's, Nature Valley, and Kraft. Monumental Vending's product mix includes chips, pastries, cookies, crackers, and candy.

Healthy vending

The company offers dedicated healthy snack machines as well as vending machines with a blend of healthy and more traditional snacks. Monumental Vending has developed, in partnership with VMI, a nutrition guideline program emphasizing sensible nutrition choices. The program was designed under the guidance of Carmen Gorniak, RD, CD. Monumental also works with healthy guidelines that originate from clients like Kaiser Permanente.[4]

Recognition

Monumental Vending received the "Vending Operator of the Year" award from National Automated Merchandising Association (NAMA) in 2011. This award is presented each year to a company that has "exhibited the highest level of integrity, dedication, and leadership in the vending industry." The award was presented by Michigan State University coach Tom Izzo at the NAMA annual convention in Chicago in March, 2011.[5]

References

  1. ^ Missy Frederick (2011-07-29). "Vending is a hard sell ... but this Beltsville duo blend age-old products with high-tech gadgetry for a winning combination". Washington Business Journal. http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/print-edition/2011/07/29/vending-is-a-hard-sell-but-this.html. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  2. ^ Emily Jed (2011-07-12). "NAMA Names 2011 Board Members". Vending Times Inc. http://www.vendingtimes.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=EB79A487112B48A296B38C81345C8C7F&nm=Vending+Features&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=4CFB88AD4E9A45CBB84BF99E187B8C14. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  3. ^ Elliot Maras (2005-04-30). "Monumental Vending Raises The Performance Bar Using Technology In Greater D.C.". VendingMarketWatch. http://www.vendingmarketwatch.com/article/10273923/monumental-vending-raises-the-performance-bar-using-technology-in-greater-dc. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  4. ^ Jennifer Nycz-Conner (2009-03-23). "Snickers wins, but soy chips put up a good fight". Washington Business Journal. http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/03/23/focus2.html. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  5. ^ "NAMA Industry Awards". Vending.org. http://www.vending.org/expos/awards.php. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 

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