Royal Vendors, Inc., is a manufacturer of cold-drink vending machine

Vending machine

A vending machine is a machine which dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, consumer products and even gold and gems to customers automatically, after the customer inserts currency or credit into the machine....

s located in Kearneysville, West Virginia

Kearneysville, West Virginia

Kearneysville is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. According to the 2000 census, Kearneysville and its surrounding community has a population of 6,716...

. It was founded in 1988 by Roy Steeley, a former manager at Dixie-Narco

Dixie-Narco

Dixie-Narco is a major manufacturer of soda vending machines located in Williston, South Carolina. Their main competitors are Royal Vendors and Vendo...

, another manufacturer of cold-drink machines. In the mid-1990s, Steeley sold Royal Vendors to Coin Acceptors, Inc. ("Coinco"), of St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

. In 1997, Steeley went on to co-found a new company, Automated Merchandising Systems ("AMS"), also located in Kearneysville.

In the United States

United States

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, Royal Vendors is the largest provider of vending machines for the Coca-Cola Company. Less significant Royal Vendors customers include Dr. Pepper Snapple Group and PepsiCo

PepsiCo

PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...

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