NCR a minority-owner of two kiosk companies; ups DVD kiosk production
• 10 Sep 2008
VideoBusiness.com: Mel Walter might work for a company that has been in business for 124 years, but he's still a big fan of spontaneity, especially when it comes to renting movies. "Seventy percent of people who enter movie-rental stores had no idea they were going there one hour before they arrived," said Walter, vice president of corporate development at NCR, the world's largest ATM manufacturer. "The options you have at home are minute compared to what you have in a 10,000-square-foot store or at kiosks with 4,000 DVDs connected to a server attached to a long-tail catalog." In the next 18 months or so, NCR will put more than 11,000 DVD kiosks into production, and the manufacturer has taken minority-ownership positions in two kiosk companies.
