After five years of development and accumulating an intellectual property portfolio of issued and pending patents, trademarks and web domains, Fountain Master is set to introduce several new products in the at-home cold beverage market.
The first of these will be the launch of the company’s CO₂Go filling stations, which provide home beverage users the convenience of refilling their CO₂ cylinders for under $10.
The CO₂Go filling station is an automated vending machine that refills CO₂Go branded CO₂ cylinders. Similar in size and function to a Redbox machine, CO₂Go filling stations will be placed in locations easily accessible to the public, including local grocery stores, pharmacies and food markets. CO₂Go cylinders will be compatible not only with the Fountain Master cold beverage system, but with other countertop beverage systems including SodaStream sparkling beverage makers and Samsung refrigerators.
An autumn 2016 launch is expected on a regional basis with a US-nationwide expansion to follow.
“Instead of trying to recreate a CO₂ cylinder exchange system to work with our beverage makers, similar to what SodaStream uses, we simply decided to find a better way to provide consumers with an affordable, convenient way to purchase and refill their CO₂ cylinders,” explained Frank Tansey, founder and chief executive officer of Fountain Master.
Fountain Master is currently developing strategic partnerships with high-traffic retailers including grocery stores, big-box retailers and convenience/drug stores to co-locate the filling stations in easily accessible store properties that highlight CO₂Go visibility and increase consumer access to CO₂ cylinder refills. Automated processes, strategic partnerships and new internet technologies will limit machine service costs and consumer retail costs.
Once the company’s CO₂Go filling stations are available nationwide, Fountain Master will then launch its patented single and multi-serve cold beverage maker within the marketplace. The system will be available in the spring of 2017 with home units selling for under $140. The Fountain Master cold beverage maker will introduce never-before-seen IoT (Internet of Things) technologies in a countertop appliance including integrated WiFi, multiple sensors, a smartphone app, data-sharing with third-party interfaces, behaviour insight and analysis on consumers’ beverage consumption, automated notifications and inventory tracking.
Fountain Master LLC was founded in 2011 as the manufacturer of a revolutionary new single-serve, cold-beverage dispensing appliance and CO₂ cylinder filling stations.
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