About Brand

Brand Vending is a 17-year-old corporation headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with warehouses in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Columbus, Ohio. Brand specializes in the manufacture and worldwide distribution of Flat Vend stickers & temporary tattoos, Bulk capsules with novelties, & Brand vending machines. In the Flat vending category, Brand Flat Vend is the world leader in distribution and innovation. Examples of Brand’s innovation and leadership in this division is confirmed by being the first company in the industry to offer licensed Rock groups stickers such as the “Backstreet Boys, Metallica, & N’Sync.” Brand Flat Vend also was the first company to produce and distribute temporary tattoos into the vending industry. Brand has 4 divisions: Brand Flat Vend, Brand Bulk, Brand Machines and Brand Financial. Every division is fully staffed and Brand takes pride in the fact that the average age of their staff is 25 years old. Brand’s creative industry leadership generates from a team of extremely talented in-house & freelance artists. In 2002, the 75-year-old vending industry posted annual dollar volume exceeding FORTY ONE BILLION ($41,000,000,000) DOLLARS. Add to this historical number the fact that all of the income generated was in cash. For an investor, one of the major benefits and attractions to vending is that unlike other industries where one is subjected to accepting credit cards (subject to fees and charge backs), extending terms or financing, vending offers cash. While vending categories range from soft drinks to video games, during the past 5 years the fastest growing of all categories has consistently been flat vending (stickers & temporary tattoos) with a record increase of 43% in 2002. In this category, Brand Vending is the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor to vending operators. Testimony to the popularity and the exploding interest in stickers is the following excerpt from an article (see enclosed story) published in USA Today titled, “From kids to adults, the USA is stuck on stickers”. “As any parent with a youngster will tell you, the quickest way to bribe a kid to brush his teeth or clean his room isn’t with a candy bar or a $1 bill. It’s with a sticker.” The interesting point of this article is that when the writer referred to annual volume he quoted $600 million per annum. What was not included in this number was the sticker & temporary tattoo vending machine industry that added another 18 million per annum to these numbers. OUR EAST COAST WAREHOUSE SAVES TIME AND MONEY !! In their continual expansion over the past 15 years, Brand Vending Products continues to flourish while staying "in step" with the needs and their expanding customer base and new product lines. Brand has had success with our Ohio facility and our customers have acknowledged and praised the convenience. This in turn has also allowed us to carry and distribute more bulk than any other previous year. Our highly trained knowledgeable staff is utilizing every inch of our 20,000+ square foot facility. Our walk in customer business tripled in the past year due to the standard level of accommodating service our Ohio facility has been exemplifying. With the vending industry directly feeling the impact of the shipping cost rising due to today's gas prices we have received an overwhelming amount of praise from our east coast clients. Another constant complement we have had state to us from our east coast customers is that they get their product in half the time so they can start to make profit due to nearly next day delivery. Our ergonomically designed row system was installed in order to improve worker safety and to increase time efficiency. Shipments are pulled from racks, moved quickly along to a processing station, and carefully inspected by Brand's rigid quality control. During the process every package is processed and sealed individually. This method ensures accuracy on order picking and delivers a faster processing time. Brand has also increased their staff by hiring new staff members while a re-training program was implemented for out current warehouse staff.