‘The New Quid’s On The Block!’ Says Parcel Holders
The new £1 coin is with us and to find out how you can minimize downtime if things go wrong, visit Parcel Holders at Vendex.
Pictured: Monika Douglas and Ed Fraser
Parcel Holders is the award winning company that’s helping to boost the image of the vending industry in the eyes of consumers by keeping machine downtime to an absolute minimum.
It’s not just consumers that benefit: come and see us on Stand 63 and we’ll show you how we can take cost out of your P&L by saving fuel and maximizing the time your engineers are engineers, rather than delivery drivers…
Click the pic to read about an example of our solutions innovations such as the initiative with Vendman!
We hope that the introduction of this new coin doesn’t cause you too much hassle, because it’s a truly remarkable thing. That’s why, rather than devote the rest of our 300 word allocation to sales blurb, we’ve decided to share some QI facts with you:
Did you know?
- The Royal Mint has produced over 2.2 billion round pound coins since 1983 – that’s the same weight as nearly 6,000 elephants. (Do we still have 6,000 elephants?)
- If you put these coins side by side, there would be enough to go from the UK to New Zealand and back
- It’s being made at the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales, at a rate of up to 2,000 per minute…
- This equates to more than 30 coins per second; nearly 3 million new £1 coins every day.
- Some of the round £1 coins returned by the public will be recycled to make the new £1 coin. Nice.
- The oldest British coins in the Royal Mint’s collection date back over 2,000 years. (Rumours that they were found in an old Sankey machine in a garage in Guildford turned out to be untrue).
- The Chancellor is the UK’s official “Master of the Mint” – a title previously held by Isaac Newton and a Polar Bear called Fox. (That last bit was a lie).
See you at Vendex!
