Interview of the participan, WaterVend Ltd
Answered by Alexey Anisimov, WaterVend Ltd General Director
1. Since when has your company been represented in Russia?
Our Company was created in 2008 right before the crisis beginning. We started from import of vending machines for distribution of purified water filling into the customers’ container. Such segment didn’t exist at that time and nowadays we have no serious competitors yet.
2. What do you aim to achieve by taking part in VendExpo 2012?
Our main goal is to attract new clients of course. From the beginning of our activity we try to take part in all vending exhibitions. Three years already we present our products at VendExpo exhibition but every year we can see that the quantity of persons attracted by our machines is not less than earlier.
3. What are you going to present this year?
We are going to present machine made in Russia – Aqualab model. The machine changed exteriorly and received some additional functions. We forge ahead and do our best for our equipment to go with the times.
The machine looks like usual coffee vending machine. It is connected to city water pipe, purifies water with the help of multi stage purifying system and brings it to the quality of first category of water and then distributes it to people. Consumer comes with his own container (bottle), put it into the special filling camera inside the machine, drops the money and receives required quantity of the pure drink water. Self-cost of such water is only 10 kopeck. Consumer price may be 2-3 and more rubles for liter. Population of the country thinks more and more about health and about water we drink. It is absolutely normal thing in various cities to buy imported water on tap. Kiosk nets with imported water enlarge all the time in our cities. Vending machines for purifying and sale of water could become full alternative as to imported water as to bottled water. Various countries in the world including USA and Canada develop actively so called water vending.
Even the smallest entrepreneur can afford the presented machines. There is no need to buy expensive kiosks and organize difficult system of water delivery. Plug in the machine and that is it. Come to take income and change filters sometimes. No any human factor. In one word – Vending!
