NEW YORK, June 26, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Wall Street Reporter Magazine has just published an exclusive interview with Kevin Illingworth, president of Automated Vending Technologies Inc. (Other OTC:AVDT), laying out his company's revolutionary technology and unique business proposition.
"People are searching for ways to maximize profitability in the vending business," he tells Wall Street Reporter senior analyst Kilian Brandon. "Infusing advertising into vending machines has given operators new life."
The 16-minute interview is now available at http://wallstreetreporter.com in streaming audio, MP3, and text format -- all free of charge.
Highlights include detailed discussions of the following topics:
-- How AVT's PC-based digital signage systems give vending machine
operators access to formerly untapped revenue streams while giving
advertisers a high-touch interactive display platform.
-- Mr. Illingworth's own intensively partner-oriented strategy for
building the global market presence of his company's unique
vending machines. "We're dealing with huge partnerships right now
that we are looking to grow the business through," he tells WSR.
-- Progress toward moving the company out of the Pink Sheets onto
the bulletin boards.
-- Additional competitive advantages that his technology (fueled by
feedback from AVT's extensive and growing company-operated vending
network) provides vendors and advertisers alike.
"In the U.S., nobody's maximizing advertising in the vending industry," Illingworth explains. "The audience is huge, it's dynamic, and it's waiting for some change."
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About Automated Vending Technologies Inc.
Automated Vending is an innovative vending operator and manufacturer of technology-based vending solutions and equipment that is in the process of revolutionizing convenient food access. With extensive experience in the vending machine industry, AVTI combines vast market knowledge, strong customer relationships, and best-in-class technologies to dramatically improve the values delivered to consumers, establishments and other vending machine operators.
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