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VendingMarketWatch Top News Stories he U.S. House of Repre- sentatives Appropriations Committee voted to include front-of-package labeling as meeting calorie disclosure rules for vending. It included this language in its fscal 2015 Agri- culture Appropriations bill that recommends standards to the Food and Drug Administration. The language is as follows: 'To meet the requirements of the law, FDA should accept a clear, visible display of calories on the front of the package of articles of food sold from a vending machine or on the front of the vending machine as meeting such requirements.' NAMA comments "This amendment marks great progress in promoting a common-sense answer to calo- rie disclosure and recognizes the accomplishments of the industry in meeting the Con- gressional intent of the original law even before the fnal rules have been issued," said Eric Dell, NAMA's senior vice president of government affairs, in a prepared state- ment. "If adopted by FDA, it has the potential to save operators and suppliers alike the tens of thousands of dollars it would have cost them each year to comply with onerous regulations." Dell reported that the Agriculture Appropriations Bill will be voted on in the full U.S. House of Representatives as part of the next step. T Capitol Hill Victory For Vending Calorie Disclosure Rules a later date and will consist of executives from both D.E Master Blenders 1753 and Mondelez International. KGM Expands Sale Of J.M. Smucker Coffee Brands ▶ Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. (Keurig) and The J.M. Smucker Co. (Smucker) have entered into a multiyear agreement that provides for the expansion of their successful partnership for the manufacturing, market- ing, distribution and sale of the Smucker family of coffee brands, including the Folgers ® , Folgers Gourmet Selections ® , Café Bustelo ® and Millstone ® brands, into Keurig ® portion packs formats that work with new Keurig ® consumer and com- mercial brewing systems. Smucker and Keurig frst entered into a partnership in February 2010. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, Coca-Cola Co. Agree To Expand Franchise Territory ▶ Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated announced it has signed a defnitive agree- ment with The Coca-Cola Co. to expand the bottler's fran- chise territory to include the Morristown and Johnson City, Tenn., territories currently served by Coca-Cola Refresh- ments USA, Inc.(CCR), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Co. This agreement represents the frst phase of the proposed franchise territory expansion described in the previously- announced Letter of Intent between the company and The Coca-Cola Co. Legislators make recommendations that front-of-package labels should meet pending calorie disclosure rules. Burdette Beckmann Acquires Focus 365 ▶ Burdette Beckmann, Inc. (BBI) announced effective June 1, 2014, the acquisi- tion of the vending brokerage company Focus 365 located in Orange County, Calif. Focus 365's personnel will join the current BBI Pacifc team. Next Generation Sells All Vending Routes ▶ Next Generation Vending, LLC based in Stoughton, Mass., has completed a series of transactions which resulted in the sale of all of its vending operations, the company reported on its Website. The effective date of the transactions was Friday, May 16, 2014. Mondelez, D.E Master Blenders 1753 Combine Coffee Businesses ▶ Mondelez International, Inc. and D.E Master Blenders 1753 B.V. announced their intention to combine their respective coffee businesses. The new company, to be called Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE), will be based in the Netherlands. The transac- tions are expected to be completed in the course of 2015, subject to limited closing conditions, including regulatory approvals. The new company's executive leader- ship team will be named at 8 Automatic Merchandiser VendingMarketWatch.com June 2014 autm_8-11_0614VMWNews.indd 8 6/10/14 11:04 AM