By Yvonne Reynolds-Young
Many of our readers and subscribers have been with us since the launch of Planet Vending on 08/10/12. In that time we have tweaked the site here and added bits there and now, we have close on 1000 stories to read and re-read if you so desire! We’ve achieved our first objectives of making the site Vending’s best read – and that isn’t just our opinion judging by all the feedback we’ve had over the years.
However, the site is groaning under the weight of content and you, along with our contributors, have earned the right to have a site that’s cleaner, easier to navigate and provides better opportunities to be seen and heard.
Planet Vending Mark 2
…So Planet Vending Mark 2 is nearly ready. We’re in the final installation process – finalising the ‘planogram’, so to speak – and we’ll be going live soon.
That’s the good news. The bad news however is that Ian Maguire, our Technical Director – who is on the final stretch, (in more ways than one, we fear 😉 ), has asked us to stop writing and posting after this afternoon, for one whole week! So, after today, no matter how many stories you send us, we won’t be able to publish for another week. We’re very sorry, but it’ll be worth it…
Lastly, for now, we have been asked by many suppliers for our forward features list. We’ve been proud that we didn’t have one as we wanted to continue posting news and features as the industry dictated and not to control publication in any way. This is still the case but we’ll be launching a brand new monthly feature that will be incorporated into the site on a permanent basis. We’ll come back to you in a week or so with the final details, but we can tell you that it’ll be called Planet Vending’s Guide to…
We’ll publish the full list with dates shortly but if you are a supplier, manufacturer, ancillary service, wholesaler etc who has a little bit of budget left for 2016 or is planning your 2017 budget – do think about us. It’s going to be very good.
