Candy King - Success in Vending

Do you have 5 - 10 hours a month to devote to earning extra income? If so, Candy King of America might be the business opportunity for you. This month Food Restaurant Franchises spoke to Stan Gladstone, CEO of Candy King of America, about the company's high margin, home-based business.

Vending today is a multi-billion dollar, growth industry. In fact, every day, nearly 7 out of 10 people will do business with some form of automatic merchandiser. Candy King's distributors follow a very simple model with no selling, no cold calling, no negotiating and no hidden costs. When the distributor signs up, Candy King sources locations in the area to place the machine, making it a completely turnkey opportunity. The Candy King of America distributor visits each machine once or twice a month. The machine is emptied and the money removed and then the machine is refilled with product. Stan estimates that these service trips take approximately 20 minutes for each machine including drive time.

The average Candy King distributor is 35-60 years old. Most are families looking for a secondary income or people who are being downsized or retiring. "It's a home-based business and a lot of women do this. I like to call it 'Light collar vending'. There is no special vehicle, no heavy sodas and it's not very time consuming."

We asked what Stan looks for in the ideal distributor:

"People that have good business sense and are family oriented. Distributors don't have to have sales ability. We get the locations and you can be as big or as little as you want."

Your area is literally packed with locations that provide opportunities to make residual income through vending. Some examples are amusement parks, car washes, malls, supermarkets and service centers. Basically, places where people wait a while or large and small businesses all offer potential vending locations.

With a 25c sale, Candy King of America's machines generate $240 per vend. As the product cost is just $48 to fill the machine, that's a massive 500% gross profit per vend. Once your "Candy Kingdom" kiosks are on location, they do most of the work for you. The machines are always on the job. Day in and day out they are offering your products for sale. In addition, the vending business offers immediate cash-flow and has proved to be highly recession resistant. Through good times and bad, people have continued to patronize vending machines.

We asked Stan about the main benefits that association with Candy King provides and he mentioned the following:

• Over 30 years experience in sales, marketing, production and business development.
• Highly recognizable brands including Mike & Ikes, Hot Tamales, M&Ms and Reeses Pieces, gumballs and confections for every taste.
• Toys, charms, tattoos and bouncing balls are very popular additions.
• One-stop shopping provides all your bulk product needs at competitive wholesale prices and direct to your door.

Candy King of America's support includes account specialists to custom tailor initial routes for new distributors but their support doesn't stop there. Customer service staff are available to assist distributors with everyday operational needs and technical support is provided direct from the factory making it all very much a team effort.

With no employees, no accounts receivable, no bad debts and little administrative or paper based work, Candy King of America offers a simple, cash based business that can be operated from home. While the business can be started part time and small scale there is also considerable room to grow and the potential to maintain several hundred machines in the course of a month.

If you would like to find out more about becoming a Candy King distributor, for as little as $10,000, then complete and submit the following form for more information.