Women Entrepreneurs in Healthy Vending Seminars: Offered by Change Is Good Vending ***** Be The Boss

To help women entrepreneurs attain long-term sustainability in the businesses they have established, Goldman Sachs started two years ago the 10,000 Women Initiative, a $100 million five-year program that is meant to improve business education in developing countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia, with a special emphasis on increasing the number of women who receive management training. As reported by Rebecca Knight in the Financial Times (March 8, 2010), more than 1,000 female entrepreneurs have already taken part in the program and many are already channeling what they learned into higher profits for their companies and new jobs in their communities.
More women are becoming entrepreneurs because they see the attractiveness that a home-based business has to offer them in terms of freedom and flexible working hours.
Change Is Good Vending offers Healthy Vending Seminars
Change Is Good Vending Group, Inc. of South Florida will begin offering Healthy Vending seminars. The purpose of these seminars are to show the "old fashioned" vending machine operators; as well as entrepreneurs looking to get started in a vending route business, that there is a very good market for healthy vending drink & snack; products. The emphasis of the summer long seminars will be toward converting the unhealthy vending machines carrying high sugar products to a low sugar selection. What is missed by an operator running his route is negative reflection his soda & chip machines give of to the community he is servicing.
Change Is Good, a little scary but good!
Change Is Good Vending Group will show both new and old Vending Route Operators the Profit Margins of Healthy Vending Machines as compared to the High Sugar/Calorie Drink and Snack Machines that are endangering the health of our youths.
Communities are aware of these Junk Food Machines and are demanding change!
As nearly anyone who has ever gazed over the rows of brightly colored packages and deposited the right combination of coins and bills into a vending machine has probably wondered at some point: What is this junk?
Vending machines, for the most part, seem to be where candy goes to die, a carb-loaded elephant burial ground. Lurking in the back of offices and schools, waiting for people weakened by hunger pangs to come, change jingling in their pockets, these machines typically offer the kind of snacks that would give most nutritionists the vapors. Not only are these snacks usually unhealthy, they are also frequently obscure variations of known brands, the forgotten remainders of a failed product launch that no one will ever eat.
To be sure, vending machines have changed a lot since the days of the automats, when Jazz Age eateries like Horn & Hardart would dispense a slab of meatloaf or a hot apple pie through a slot in exchange for a nickel or two. Today, however, instead of meals, most vending machines deal in quick fixes; sodas, candy bars and snack foods intended to quiet a rumbling stomach, not take the place of actual nutrition.
The worst vending machine snacks.
The problem is that, to many people, the vending machine is as much a part of their daily diet as fast food joints. According to the National Automatic Merchandising Association, in 2004, Americans spent more than $21 billion buying food and beverages from the vending machines. The average American works about eight to ten hours a day and, according to food-services giant Aramark (nyse: RMK - news - people ), about 15% of workers don't even have time to take a lunch break. For them, the vending machine is a straight shot down the hall, and the snacks inside it are usually fattening and not so healthy--that is until recently.
Partly in response to pressure from parent groups, customers and the health-care industry, vending machine companies are now beginning to offer snacks that may pose less danger to the heart, arteries and waistline.
The best vending machine snacks.
As most students and office workers know, making healthy choices is a difficult task, especially when hungry. A morning spent in meetings and hours at the computer make those Little Debbie's snacks hard to avoid--as if being tasty didn't make that hard enough. And for those employees who don't have time to head to a restaurant for lunch or are working late, a vending machine may be all they have.
In January 2005, the National Automatic Merchandising Association started a million-dollar campaign called "Balanced for Life." It highlights the need for a balanced diet and fitness, and starting January 2006, will focus on nutrition in the workplace--where vending sales are highest. According to NAMA, a large part of the campaign is to encourage vending and snack food leaders to develop healthier choices, which, so far, seems to be working.
Already, calorie-conscious consumers can find nutrition bars and salads in their machines. Vending distributors, like the two largest, Charlotte, N.C.-based Canteen Vending Services, a division of the UK's Compass Group, the world's largest food-service company, and Aramark, are implementing healthy food programs. These programs give consumers more variety when it comes to choosing snacks and beverages, while keeping items like the number one selling Snickers bar.
"The approach is not to limit the choice, but to provide a broader choice," says Richard Wyckoff, president of Aramark Refreshment Services. "It's appropriate to have choices that are indulgent and others that are better for you."
Aramark has separated their healthy items into four categories that focus on low-fat, low-calories, low-carbohydrates and beverages that are 100% fruit juice or water.
Already, traditional suppliers like Pepsico (nyse: PEP - news - people ) subsidiary Frito-Lay have baked chips, while Nabisco has come out with 100-calorie packs for snacks like Cheez-its and Oreos.
Canteen has 165,000 machines nationwide, and all of them have a minimum of 15% "balanced choice" offerings that fit the criteria of either 7 grams of fat or less, or 260 calories or less. Tom Kearny, vice president of marketing for Canteen says, "We'll move that percentage up as consumer demand for healthy food increases."
But even if there are healthier choices in vending machines, it's easy to fall victim to a sugar craving. These lapses in judgment are why Dr. Kathy James at the University of San Diego says try not to skip meals, and if you need small snacks, choose peanuts or yogurt. "If you go to a machine and get a candy bar, it makes you quickly energetic, but an hour later you feel slumpy again."

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