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Cole Vending Industries, Inc., has acquired and put into immediate production another plant at 4500 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, where 100 per cent of the company’s can venders and thi’ee of the six
“Matched Line” venders — candy, cigaret and pastry machines — are being built and shipped. The cold di'ink (Coledrinx) , hot drink and food machines are being manufactured and shipped from Mayville, Wis.
General offices, sales and service headquarters remain at Cole’s Chicago Lake Street factory.
The annual sales seminar of Blevi»s Popcorn Co. was held April 18-19 at the home office in Popcorn Village, Tenn. Rufus Han’is, bulk sales manager, conducted the seminar around the theme.
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Attending the Blevins Popcorn Co. annual sales seminar recently in Popcorn Village, Tenn., were (from left): Carl Duke, New Orleans, La.; Bobby Owens, Nashville, Tenn.; Leo Evers, Little Rock, Ark.; Jack Marsh, Atlanta, Ga.; Don Hendrix, Ridgway, III.; James McMurray, Jacksonville, Fla.; Leo Elliott, Nashville, Tenn.
“Springtime Is Sales Time.” New products and packaging, new hybrids and equipment and customer assistance were among the subjects discussed. The meeting brought together salesmen and supervisors from all areas for intensive review of sales methods and techniques and an outline of future plans.
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The Bon Ami Co., diversified household products company, has announced the election of two new vice-presidents to head two new divisions. David Adlman is vicepresident and general manager of the company’s Tidy Home Paper Division and Irving A. Singer is vice-president and general manager of the Rex Packaging Division. Both divisions foiinerly constituted the Tidy House Packaging Corp. which was recently acquired by Bon Ami.
Adlman, a veteran of over 30 years in the packaging and grocery business, was a founder and president of Tidy House Packaging Corp.
Singer, who has been in the specialty bag business since 1937, was a founder of Rex Packaging and a vice-president of ’Tidy-House Corp. He just completed a tenn as a director of the National Ass’n of Concessionaires.
The Coca-Cola Co. has moved its New York offices from 530 Fifth Ave. to 407 Lexington Ave., Suite 3906.
Hershey Chocolate Corp. reported earnings of $8.21 per share for the first quarter of 1962, compared with $7.69 in the fii*st quarter of 1961. At the recent annual stockholders meeting at Hershey, Pa., a stock split of five common shares for one and an increase of from 3,000,000 to 15,000,000 shares was authorized.
“The Chocolate Tree,” Nestle Chocolate Co.’s color film produced by United States Productions, is one of the top ten titles in the entire inventory of 1,000 group audience films distributed by Modem Talking Picture Service. The film has already had 22,078 bookings to a total audience of 2,373,458, besides having had 743 telecasts to an estimated 23,700,000 viewers.
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