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Organization and Business
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Organization And Business [Abstract]  
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Note 2: Organization and Business
Description of Business
We are a leading provider of automated retail solutions offering convenient products and services that benefit consumers and drive incremental retail traffic and revenue for retailers. During the first quarter of 2015:
To align with a change in how our chief operating decision maker evaluates business performance, we added ecoATM, our electronic device recycling business, as a separate reportable segment. Previously, the results of ecoATM along with those of other self-service concepts were included in our New Ventures segment. The combined results of the other self-service concepts, which include our product sampling kiosk concept SAMPLEit, are included in the All Other reporting category as they do not meet quantitative thresholds to be reported as a separate segment. See Note 14: Business Segments and Enterprise-Wide Information for additional information; and
We discontinued our Redbox operations in Canada as the business was not meeting our performance expectations. We have reclassified the results of Redbox Canada to discontinued operations for all periods presented in our Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income. See Note 12: Discontinued Operations for additional information.
Our core offerings in automated retail include our Redbox, Coinstar and ecoATM segments. Our Redbox segment consists of self-service kiosks where consumers can rent or purchase movies and video games. Our Coinstar segment consists of self-service coin-counting kiosks where consumers can convert their coins to cash or stored value products. We also offer self-service kiosks that exchange gift cards for cash under our Coinstar™ Exchange brand. Our ecoATM segment consists of self-service kiosks where consumers can recycle electronic devices for cash. In addition to our three reportable segments, we also conduct business activities through other self-service concepts, where we identify, evaluate, build or acquire and develop innovative new self-service retail concepts and regularly assess these concepts to determine whether continued funding or other alternatives are appropriate.
Our kiosks are located primarily in supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchants, financial institutions, convenience stores, malls and restaurants. Our kiosk and location counts as of March 31, 2015, are as follows:
 
Kiosks
 
Locations
Redbox
41,960

 
34,430

Coinstar
21,220

 
20,010

ecoATM
2,140

 
1,900

All Other
90

 
90

Total
65,410

 
56,430