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VENDTEKS
SUBSIDIARY NOW PREPAY ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT WITH
ONTARIOS LARGEST INDEPENDENT GASOLINE RETAILER
PIONEER PETROLEUMS
June 9, 2003 VendTek Systems Inc. (TSX-V:
VSI) (VendTek or The
Company"), a leading provider of automated
transaction technology, is
pleased to announce that its subsidiary Now Prepay
Corp. (Now Prepay) has entered into
an agreement to place e-Fresh POS terminals with
Pioneer
Petroleums (Pioneer) based in Burlington,
Ontario.
Pioneer
has 143 locations throughout Ontario and initially
64 Snack Express
stores will have a Now Prepay e-Fresh software
enabled POS terminal
installed for the electronic distribution of prepaid
cellular and long-distance. Under the agreement,
Pioneer has purchased 64 POS Terminals and licenses
from Now Prepay.
Pioneer
Petroleums representative, Adeline Finlay commented,
We are looking forward to adding the Now
Prepay POS terminals to our Snack Express locations
throughout Ontario. As the largest independent
gasoline retailer in Ontario, we like to add leading
edge products to keep our customers coming back
and provide services from industry leaders such
as Now Prepay.
Now
Prepay President, Doug Buchanan commented, We
are very excited about our relationship with Pioneer.
Their Snack Express stores are ideal
locations for the sales of prepaid telecom products,
as our trial with them
has proved.
In
Canada, the market for cellular phone time recharges
is expected to reach
$800 million annually by 2004. Similarly, the
market for prepaid long
distance is expected to increase to $500 million
by 2004. According to the
Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association
there are 10.5 million
Canadian cellular subscribers of which 2.6 million
are prepaid users.
For
more information, or to receive news and updates
as they become available, please contact Samantha
Haynes at 604.940.2239.
About
VendTek and Now Prepay
(www.vendteksys.com
/
www.nowprepay.com)
VendTek Systems Inc. develops, markets, and sells
e-Fresh, which is a suite of software applications
use to electronically distribute prepaid telecommunication
products and financial services. Commercialization
of
e-Fresh under license is VendTek's strategy to
create sustainable and recurring revenues.
VendTek's customers and its subsidiaries, Now
Prepay Corp. and VendTek Systems Technologies
(Beijing), are using e-Fresh software to build
electronic, prepaid services networks which enable
consumers to purchase prepaid services via POS
and self-serve terminals connected to a central
server. This system creates significant value
through improved efficiencies compared to the
traditional distribution paradigm. e-Fresh reduces
shrinkage and inventory requirements while improving
consumer access to prepaid services since it is
completely electronic and eliminates physical
cards and vouchers.
About Pioneer Petroleum (www.pioneer.ca)
Based
in Burlington, Ontario, Pioneer Petroleum www.pioneer.ca
is Ontario
s largest independent gasoline retailer. For further
information, contact
the company directly at 905-639-2060.
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