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SCHUTTER CANDY DIVISION, St. Louis
meeting of bottlers that the average per-
son seems to be able to bold only so mucb
liquids, so if he takes milk, coffee, juices,
etc_, he will consume less soft drinks.
Report on use of ingredients by the
soft drink trade in recent weeks have not
shed any real light on whether output is
being increased. The bottling trade esti-
mates that per capita sales of soft drinks
in 1948 amounted to 166 bottles per per-
son, a real gain over the Der capita mark
of 155 bottles in 1947. If the rate of gain
is still bolding this year, sales of soft
drinks in bottles should be doing right well.
Official tabulation on 1947 shows that
soft drinks made a bigger per capita gain
in sales than ice cream, candy, coffee or
beer. In that year ice cream ranked second
in per capita gains, beer third , ca ndy
fourth and coffee fifth .
Local Drink Leads Coke
In Milwaukee Survey
MILWAUKEE - There are cities in
which a local soft drink ranks in consumer
preference above the national hest sellers,
and that is true in this city. A newspaper
survey here gives first place to Graf's, with
a score of 36.2 per cent of consumers put-
ting it first.
Coca-Cola scored first in choice with 14.4
per cent and Pepsi-Cola was listed first by
3.9 per cent. Coca-Cola had dropped from
a score of 16.8 per cent last year.
Among the surveys, a New York maga-
zine firm recently announced its survey on
brand preferences for soft drinks; also
showing that 92 per cent of the families in
the U. S. buy soft drinks.
Coca-Cola, of course, led with 52.5 per
cent of the families listing the brand as
first choice; 16 per cent voted for Pepsi-
Cola; 7.6 per cent for 7-Up; 2.9 per cent
for Royal Crown; 2.6 per cent for Hire's
Root Beer; 2 per cent for Dr. Pepper; and
17 per cent voting for a multitude of mis-
cellaneous brands. Eight per cent were not
brand conscious at all.
Sell-Service Making Gains
ST. LOUIS-A convention of wholesale
grocer here emphasized self-service as the
biggest thing in reducing cost in grocery
stores. Althoul!;h vending machines were
not in the discus ions, the general stress of
self-service was an indirect boost for ven-
dors.
The vending trade in recent years has
seen vending machines make big headway
in grocery stores, and the convention pro-
duced some data on how important such
locations may he.
Retail I!;rocery store trade has climbed
from 10 billion dollars annually in 1939 to
32 billion dollars now_ One speaker said
86 cents of every dollar that goes for gro-
ceries is spent in a self-service store.
JULY, 1949
Sale of "Standard"
Almonds Booming
OAKLAND-Standard Specialty Co. i.
rapidly attaining the reputation as the
country's No. I supplier of vending al-
monds.
"Tbe word is getting around about the
superior quality and low price of the
Standard brand," says Bert Fraga, head of
the company, "and as a result, we are en-
joying the greatest almond business in the
history of this company."
The Standard almond is processed ac-
cording to strictest vending machine speci-
fications. It is French-fried in pure cocoa-
nut oil, and because it is vend-size, it will
not clog mechanisms and break the nuts.
The first shipment of Victor's new Top-
per has been sold out and Fraga has been
awaiting additional machines to meet de-
mands in his area.
Death Takes Edwards,
Leader In Vending
KA SAS CITY-The wholesale tobacco
trade recen tly 10 t by death one of its most
progressive members. J. Renz Edwards of
the F. S. Edwards Tobacco Co., and who
had nlso built up an extensive cigarette
vending mach ine business in the area.
Edwards was especially active in the Na-
tional Assn. of Tobacco Distributors, was
nrAsident of the grouD for many years, and
helped found it in 1933. He was also a
director of the National Automatic Mer-
chandising Assn.
Cattle Freeze, But "Ideal"
Weathers AlI Weather
LOS ANGELES-When the weather is
so frigid that cattle freeze in the fields,
that's big news for the general public.
When a scale operate f1awle sly durin!!;
many months of sub-zero temperature, that's
big news for the vending trade.
That's wbat happened in the Mountain
Sta tes last winter. While livestock froze.
the Ideal penny weighing machine proved
its great all-weather ability by remaining
on out ide locations and doing a top job
without need of servicing.
Returning from a three-week tri n to this
area. Robert Stark, head of Ideal Weil!;hinl!;
Machine Co., made some interesting dis-
closures.
"Many outside-location scales were placed
in the back room last winter and lost four
or five months' play because they just
couldn't operate efficiently in tho.e sub-
zero area ," he said.
"In scales using an oil pot for the shock
absorbers, so as to keep the mechanism
from breaking, the cold weather hardened
the oil-made it just like molasses. Of
course the scales wou ldn't work. By the
same token, the hot weather thins the oil
too much; the mechanism works too freely,
and adjustments are needed."
Stark added that Ideal is so constructed
that it doesn' t need an oil pot and has
been so scientifically designed and engi-
neered tha t it has proved the most trouble-
free scale for both ou tside and inside loca-
tions on a year-round basis.
Tasdelight and Kunkel
Set Impressive Record
WASHINGTON, D. C.-One of the out-
standing popcorn operations in the coun-
try is that of Tasdelight Products, who
have operated hundreds of Kunkel's famous
Model K in the nation's capital, Maryland
and Virginia for more than ten years.
Because Kunkel Metal Products Co.
built a high quality vendor and continually
added new improvements to the machine
to maintain its leadership, Tasdelight were
able to rack up a phenQmenal record dur-
ing the war and continue that record dur-
ing the post-war era.
During the hectic early '40's, with Wash-
ington departments overflowing with per-
sonnel , the Model K performed brilliantly
24 hours per day under the most trying
condi tions.
The record 5et by Tasdelight has been
duplicated by Kunkel operators all over the
country and it has won Kunkel the reputa-
tion of being the most dependable popcorn
vendor ever built.
Philip Morris Annual Report
NEW YORK-The fiscal sales year for
Philip Morris cigarettes ends March 31, and
the annual report of the firm recently be-
came available. Full confirmatiQn of ad-
vancing sales of this brand was made, when
it was reported that sales increased by ap-
proximately 33 per cent for the past year.
This gave stockh olders the highest net
earnings in the lOI-year history of the firm.
The annual report commented on toba cco
supply, saying it has the largest inventory
of aging stocks in its history. The company
opened three new warehQuses last year to
meet distribution requirements, making a
total of 31 warehouses now owned by the
firm .
American Tob. Advertises
NEW YORK - Operators of cigarette
vendors have perhaps noticed that adver-
tising of Pall Mall cigarettes is back in
newspapers after an absence of eight years.
It is a part of the big campaign of Ameri-
can Tobacco Co., which will use all avail-
able daily newspapers to plug Lucky
Strikes also in a campaign totaling $3,500,-
000.
While varying the theme, Pall Mall ads
suggest guarding against "throat scratch,
enjoy smooth smoking," etc.
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