Fountain Fresh launches field test of advanced fountain tower.SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 1996--Fountain Fresh International (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on EBB:FTFR) Thursday announced it has begun field testing a revolutionary cup-filling fountain tower soft drink dispensing system for use in convenience stores The following is a list of convenience stores organized by geographical location. Stores are grouped by the lowest heading that contains all locales in which the brands have significant presence. , fast food restaurants and small markets both here and abroad. Richard J. Maynes, president and chief executive officer, said this advanced fountain tower delivers ice-cold, carbonated or non-carbonated soft drinks directly into customers' cups. "The system also brings to the cup-fill beverage industry two important innovations," he noted. "First, it permits consistently accurate proportioning of syrup to water, assuring customers high quality drinks with every fill. Secondly, it permits, for the first time, delivery of diet drinks using 100 percent aspartame aspartame: see sweetener, artificial. aspartame Synthetic organic compound (a dipeptide) of phenylalanine and aspartic acid. It is 150–200 times as sweet as cane sugar and is used as a nonnutritive tabletop sweetener and in low-calorie (Equal) instead of saccharin saccharin (săk`ərĭn), C7H5NSO3, white, crystalline, aromatic compound. It was discovered accidentally by I. Remsen and C. Fahlberg in 1879. Pure saccharin tastes several hundred times as sweet as sugar. , which every carbonated fountain diet drink now contains." Both these advantages are provided by the company's patented proportioning pump which also drives the Fountain Fresh bottle-filling BEVERAGE CENTER 2000 systems. These are now dispensing up to 24 flavors of soft drinks plus pure drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. to supermarket customers here in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and in a growing number of foreign countries. Maynes said the company intends to offer yet another model of its BEVERAGE CENTER which will fill both cups and plastic bottles. This system is expected to meet high demand from convenience stores and fast food outlets in developed countries and from small markets in other areas of the world, he added. The cup-filling system was developed by Fountain Fresh engineers in a 50-50 joint venture with Antah Holdings Bhd of Malaysia, which will market these fountain towers internationally. CONTACT: Molesworth Associates Inc., Green Valley, Ariz. Gordon Molesworth, 520/625-0035 |
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