The story
USA Technologies was founded in 1992 and holds more than 87 patents on its products and services. Its patents range from payment processing, transaction methods, and terminal connection methods to energy management and telematics. There are currently over 250,000 connections to its ePort Connect Service. The company was named in Deloitte L.L.P.'s 2014 Technology Fast 500 List of the fastest-growing companies in North America. They worked with Setomatic Systems to be the first to bring NFC technology into the self-service laundry market The Nilson Report ranked USA Technologies 6th in the US (and 28th worldwide) in POS shipments, and they received the 2014 Frost & Sullivan North American Customer Value Leadership Award in Financial Services and Retail M2M Communications.
In 2010, a proxy fight for the company's board of directors took place with shareholder group SAVE Partners. This proxy fight ended with the addition of two SAVE Board candidates and the modification of company policies. In 2012, there was another proxy fight involving SAVE, but this dispute resulted in no change to the board.
USA Technologies' CEO George Jensen was suspended on 4 October 2011, after he was revealed to be posting company information to an investor board and resigned two weeks later. Stephen Herbert was appointed as CEO and held that position until he stepped down in 2019 due to the "start of a proxy battle brought by its largest investor", Hudson Executive Capital.
USA Technologies announced its name change to Cantaloupe, Inc. on 19 April 2021.
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