Charles Hanna

Charles Hanna was born in Jamaica to affluent Lebanese parents.  In the early 1970’s Jamaica experienced political turbulence and the Hanna’s lost all their manufacturing operations in a fire that destroyed their business.  They had always encouraged their children to learn about their country of origin, so the family settled in Lebanon where they prospered.  However, soon after the losses in Jamaica, civil war erupted in Lebanon and the rest of the Hanna assets were lost. Charles escaped several incidents of kidnapping and many close calls with death. He finally escaped and came to America, broke and destitute.

Charles recognized that America was the last stand for freedom and the opportunity for fulfilling one’s dreams.  He started several ventures even selling mace spray and dog repellent and faced several economic hardships.  He soon stumbled upon the opportunity to start a vending business starting out with one vending machine. Within a few years, Charles had built one of the largest family owned and operated multi million dollar vending organizations in the city and a one of a kind vending network in the world. He later brought the rest of his family to Kansas City to join him. 

Charles recognizes the need to educate consumers about many business related matters and about scams in vending. He feels strongly about this because he was a victim of such scams when he first started. Soon his operations became national and expanded globally offering vending equipment sales, financing, credit restoration, service and consultation.

Charles recently authored and published the book on vending titled: THE VENDING INDUSTRY – History, Trends, Secrets, Opportunities & Scams.  He also published the only complete 52-page color price catalog on vending, titled: THE WORLD’S FIRST VENDING MACHINE PRICE CATALOG. 

Mr. Hanna is very involved in his community. He is past president of his Rotary club and has served on numerous boards and committees locally, nationally and internationally. He is involved with numerous non-profit organizations and volunteers his time to many worthy causes.  Over the past 28 years, whenever asked to speak to any audience, Hanna has always used the opportunity to remind those listening to never forget for a moment how fortunate they are to wake up in America, every day and have the genuine opportunity to not only change their lives dramatically, but to also change the lives of those around them in a profound manner!