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Smiley Face Vending Gumballs

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:39:02 +0000

Smiley Face Vending Machine Gumballs

Smiley face gumballs

With the economy in a turmoil these days everyone needs a smile. Smiles are contagious, once you receive one, it’s easy to pass it on to the next person.

Now smiles have reached the vending machine market in the form of Smiles Assorted Gumballs . When you see a globe full of green, white, blue, yellow and red Smiles looking at you from a vending machine you can’t help but smile and want one!

Smiles first appeared in 1963 when State Mutual Life Assurance Company needed an internal campaign to improve employee moral, so Harvey Ball, a commercial artist devised the face.

Fresh Breath Combo

Moderator — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:59:25 +0000

Many bulk vending routes include adult locations such as bars, nightclubs, coffee shops, restaurants and maybe even tobacco shops or cigar clubs. If you haven’t secured some of these sites, now is the time to expand your horizons because the world-famous Chicle Chews brand has introduced a new Chlorophyll tablet gum and candymachines.com has them. These green-colored gum tablets contain real chlorophyll as an active ingredient to eliminate mouth odors while gently cleaning teeth - perfect for locations where breath freshening sells.

Choosing the right machine for the job is critical so the customer readily identifies the product. Candymachines.com offers this new gum in bulk packaging for vending and recommends a compatible machine like the Mint Vending Machine to display and vend these little breath-savers. Using a classic mint machine really sets the stage because the contents are easily recognized as breath mints which increases sales.

Whether its breath-freshening gum or any other bulk vending product always choose a complimentary machine to maximize sales with candymachines.com – The Way to Sweet Success!

History of the gumball

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:55:09 +0000

People have been chewing on gum for a long time. Well, stuff that somewhat resembles gum as we know it today. The Ancient Greeks chewed on resin from the bark of the mastiche tree, the Native Americans used resin from spruce trees and got settlers into the habit as well. The settlers commercialized it and sold spruce resin lumps to others, spreading the idea.

In 1884, Thomas Adams developed Adam’s Black Jack, which was a licorice-flavored chicle gum, made with resin from a sapodilla tree. Shortly thereafter, William Wrigley began working on the mass production of gum, and after developing Wrigley’s spearmint and juicy fruit gums, began to market them all over the United States.

In the same era as Wrigley, brothers Frank and Henry Fleer began their own experimentations with gum. Henry’s project was creating candy-coated gum and his invention, Chiclets, is still widely popular today, as are gumballs, which are candy coated in the same design. Frank was seeking a more elastic type of gum and despite his first horribly sticky and messy attempts, eventually ended up with what we know as bubble gum today. Oddly enough, it was his accountant, Walter Diemer, who is credited with finding the right combination of ingredients to make the gum be stretchy enough to blow a bubble without requiring turpentine to remove it from the skin, as Fleer’s first prototypes did! Diemer also made history because pink was the only color left on the shelf when he was mixing up the concoction, and today bubble gum is traditionally pink. A result of the Fleers’ work, Dubble Bubble Gumballs, is still made and beloved today.

What started as resin from a tree has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry. There are hundreds of different flavors of gumballs, in all shapes and sizes. The gumball is still one of the most popular vending machine choices today and is a favorite of kids everywhere.