U-Turn Vending Machines, also known as US Vend Technologies, LLC and Vend-It-All, is an Idaho Falls, Idaho

Idaho Falls, Idaho

Idaho Falls is a city in and the county seat of Bonneville County, Idaho, United States, and the largest city in Eastern Idaho. As of the 2010 census, the population of Idaho Falls was 56,813, with a metro population of 130,374....

 company offering bulk vending

Bulk vending

Bulk vending is the sale of unsorted confections, nuts, gumballs, toys and novelties selected at random and dispensed generally through non-electrically operated vending machines. Bulk vending is a separate segment of the vending industry from full line vending — i.e., the snack and soda vending...

 business opportunities

Business opportunity

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. The company sells at least four different machines, all of which feature one or more levels of four canisters for vending four choices of candy, toys, or other merchandise. They are:

• The U-Turn (one level; four selections);
• The U-Turn Eliminator (two levels; eight selections);
• The U-Turn Terminator (two levels; eight selections; extra capacity); and
• The U-Turn Goliath (three levels; twelve selections).

Like most vending biz-ops, U-Turn charges a high price for the machines in exchange for giving the customer support in starting their own vending business. The size of the initial investment varies by the size of business the entrepreneur wishes to start with.

Company history

US Vend Technologies has been in business since 1988. According to an August 1999 article in Entrepreneur Magazine

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, the company is "expanding into South America

South America

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and has already shipped machines to other regions around the world." In February 2000, Pacific Equity Group acquired the companyhttp://www.pacificequitygroup.com/history.html.