20-ounce grabs market share. From: Automatic Merchandiser | Date: October 1, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2000 Johnson Hill Press, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Introduced in 1996 when vending machine manufacturers rolled out the first machines capable of carrying multiple configurations, 20-ounce bottles have begun to cannibalize 12-ounce cans in vending. Data collected from 5,000 cold beverage machines nationwide indicates that from June 1999 to June 2000, 20-ounce bottles gained market share, both in units and dollars. This is a limited sample, based on those operators who participated in the VendScape report since June of 1999. The curr...