N&W may be at The National Motorcycle Museum for Vendex Midlands – but they’re not expecting that there’ll be much vroom on their stand!
“Vendex Midlands is almost upon us and we’ll be there in force, with a focus on our automatic and semi-automatic hot drinks machines. We reckon that the star of the stand will be the amazing new Wittenborg 9100; but we’ll also have the new, six canister Opera 6 and because the National Motorcycle Museum’s slogan is ‘where legends live on’, we’ll have the faithful, best-selling Krea ES with us, too – not forgetting the state-of-the-art in snacks machines, the Melodia with ETL.
We’ll be asking your opinion on a product we’ve got in development just now: it’s the Canto Touch Tower concept and we think you’ll like it…
We’ll have a full complement of staff on the stand, with one or two new faces replacing some absent friends, so please make a point of coming to say ‘hello’. It’d be great to see you.”
And by the way – April 19th is Louise Wardle’s birthday. She has asked us to tell visitors to Stand 24-25 that she will not, under any circumstances, accept gifts of chocolate or wine, no matter how much they insist. Having said that, she’s had a brilliant idea. She’ll be offering birthday kisses to visitors to the N&W stand in an effort to make a contribution to the forthcoming five-day trek, featuring people drawn from the UK vending industry, (which you can read about here), based out of Marrakech, to the summit of Toubkal, the highest mountain in North Africa…
‘I don’t think I could cope with the trek’, Louise told PV, ‘but I think I can handle a kiss or two!’
Mm. Let’s do the maths: Lou wants to raise £100, so what does that mean? One mega kiss that collects all the dosh in one go? Ten smooches at a tenner a time? A hundred pecks on the cheek at a pound a pop?
It reminds us of a story about a lady who took on a similar challenge: she’d gone out to sell kisses for charity and when she returned home, her mum asked ‘how much did you make?’ and the lady said ‘£250.50’, to which her mum replied ‘which cheapskate gave you 50p?’ and the lady said ‘they all did.’
We’ll be there with our 50p Lou! Pucker up!
It’s going to be a great day, so see you there!
