CORONA, Calif., Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AVT, Inc.
(OTC Markets: AVTC)(www.autoretail.com)
announced that they have opened a new sales office dedicated to
Marley Coffee. The AVT Marley Coffee sales headquarters
features a large showroom, and will be staffed with personnel that
focus on obtaining locations for AVT-owned Marley coffee systems,
and assisting entrepreneurs and business owners obtain and operate
a Marley Coffee Automated Cafe.
AVT is the exclusive U.S. distributor of Marley Coffee branded
kiosks and automated coffee stores, and will put 2,000
company-owned units into the market within the next 2-years, and
has projected sales from these systems to top $24 million by year-end 2014.
These automated "Marley Cafes" are able to brew a cup of freshly
ground coffee as well as any barista, but at a fraction of the
cost. Some Marley Cafes come with seating areas that allow patrons
to get a cup of coffee and then relax in comfortable over-stuffed
chairs.
A few days ago, Marc Andreessen,
the creator of Netscape and noted venture capitalist, stated that
stores will die off, and that technology-based systems will be the
new model. Examples of this are how Redbox helped put Blockbuster
our of business. "Retail chains are a fundamentally implausible
economic structure if there's a viable alternative," he said. "You
combine the fixed cost of real estate with inventory, and it puts
every retailer in a highly leveraged position. Few can survive a
decline of 20 to 30 percent in revenues. It just doesn't make any
sense for all this stuff to sit on shelves. There is fundamentally
a better model."
"We don't agree with Mr. Andreessen and think that retail will
completely die off," said Brent
Toevs, CEO of Marley Coffee. "But we think that the bricks
and mortar approach will rapidly retrench as new, more affordable
delivery methods take their place."
"The Marley Cafes are the way of the future," stated
Shannon Illingworth, CEO of AVT,
Inc. "Why put up a large retail store like Starbucks - with all the
associated overhead - when for a few thousand dollars, you can
produce a better cup of Marley gourmet coffee, and place these
self-service cafes virtually anywhere? We can put a beautiful
Marley Coffee Automated Cafe almost everywhere that people
congregate – even in places that could never hold a Starbucks, like
office and apartment buildings, college campuses, and hotel
lobbies, to name a few."
The automated, self-service sector is exploding, according to a
report in Investor's Business Daily. They stated that the industry
will reach $1.1 trillion by 2015,
using projections compiled by the IHL Group.
"(Many) retail guys are going to go out of business," Andreessen
added. "We're still pre-death of retail, and we're already seeing a
huge wave of growth... We view this as a long term
opportunity."
For more information on the Marley Coffee Automated Cafes,
please call 951-888-2405 or visit:
www.marleycoffeebusiness.com.
For general information on AVT, please call 800-240-5175 or
visit the website at www.autoretail.com.
About AVT, Inc.:
AVT, Inc. is a leading developer of
automated and self-service retailing systems. AVT is able to work
with any size company to design a custom automated retailing
solution that drives traffic, increases sales, improves security,
and lowers overhead. With an in-house design team, software
developers, mechanical engineers and on-site manufacturing, AVT can
take projects from concept to completion with speed, economy and
ingenuity.
AVT's stock is traded through the OTC Markets, Ticker Symbol:
AVTC
About Marley Coffee
Marley Coffee (corporate name
Jammin Java Corp) is a US-based company that grows premium, artisan
roasted coffee on their organic family farms in the famed Blue
Mountains of Jamaica, and offer
what many believe to be the best gourmet coffee in the world, to
the grocery, retail, online, home, service, hospitality, office,
and big box store markets.
Marley Coffee is a fully reporting company quoted on the OTCBB
under the symbol JAMN.
Learn more at www.MarleyCoffee.com, or visit the corporate
website at www.JamminJavaCorp.com. Join us on Facebook at:
facebook.com/marleycoffee, and follow us on Twitter at
twitter.com/marleycoffee
For general sales inquiries, please contact
sales@marleycoffee.com or call the company at 323-556-0746.
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SOURCE AVT, Inc.