AVT, Inc. Wins Award of Excellence for Manufacturing

CORONA, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AVT, Inc. (formerly Automated Vending Technologies), (Pink Sheets:AVTC.pk - News) (www.avtinconline.com) is pleased to announce that it will be honored with the Award of Excellence for Manufacturing by the Corona, California Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon on July 22, 2010. The honor is detailed in the Chamber's publication: http://coronachamber.org/Portals/9/Home/CBM/tabid/399/Default.aspx

The Chamber said: "The coveted AE for Manufacturing will be given to AVT, Inc. (Automated Vending Technologies), an innovative vending operations and manufacturer of technology based vending solutions and equipment that is in the process of revolutionizing convenient food access, and serves approximately 300 commercial and government vending accounts and numerous educational facilities in Southern California.

"Their patent pending vending management software enables them to receive real-time information related to product levels, transaction amounts, machine maintenance issues and when to ship products so there is never a lapse in service," the Chamber said.

"We are pleased to receive this honor from our hometown business leaders and look forward to serving Southern California while continuing to grow our manufacturing operations through superior engineering design and development efforts and integration of our cashless payment systems, advertising opportunities, remote tracking, and inventory management into our new line of automated retailer dispensing systems that are powered by AVT designed patent pending state-of-the-art software technology," said AVT founder Shannon Illingworth.

ABOUT AVT: AVT, Inc. (Pink Sheets:AVTC.pk - News) is a vending solutions provider based in Corona, California that has developed several significant vending machine technologies that yield a more efficient and reliable, technically-advanced system. Their advanced technology provides methods for cashless payment, credit card and debit card use, dynamic advertising, remote tracking, and inventory management. AVT has grown steadily for the past 5-years, and has a strong balance sheet. AVT has a client base of over 300 government and commercial accounts.