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ATLAS Vending now capable of making retail points accessible to 41.4% of persons with disabilities in Malaysia L-Rt: KPJ Healthcare Berhad Deputy General Manager (Group Strategic Communications) Juliana Jamaluddin, ATLAS Vending Head of Marketing & Ancillary Business Amy Gan, ATLAS Vending CEO Santharuban Thurai Sundaram, KPJ Healthcare Berhad Corporate Manager Noor Hafizan Mohd Noor, YB Senator Ras Adiba Radzi (front), CEO KPJ Ampang Putri Muhammad Badri Hussin (far left) ATLAS Vending, in collaboration with OKU Sentral rolled out Malaysia’s first series of Accessible Vending Machines today, with KPJ Healthcare Berhad (“KPJ Healthcare”) as an exclusive hospital partner for the launch, which will see the Accessible machines available at selected KPJ hospitals, Pusat Daya Klang and Pusat Latihan Perindustrian dan Pemulihan Bangi. Launched in conjunction with International Wheelchair Day today, the Accessible Vending Machines are custom fit with features such as wheelchair and...

The recently concluded ATLAS Hack Virtual Hackathon, Malaysia’s first Smart Retail Hackathon which was held from the 5th to 7th of March, with its Grand Finals on the 13th of March saw amazing innovative ideas developed by Malaysian tech talents for the retail vending space. ATLAS Hack was organised by ATLAS Vending, the largest food & beverage vending machine operator in Malaysia & Singapore as named by the Malaysian Book of Records, in partnership with corporate innovation outfit JomHack Malaysia. The retail industry has seen many challenges recently due to the COVID-19 related restrictions, but this has also created many new opportunities for innovation with businesses being forced to go through some kind of digital transformation in order to adapt to the current norms. There’s also a pressing need to make vending machines more automated than ever to reduce manual labour, and to provide contactless purchasing experience for customers to remain safe in this COVID-19 era. Vend...