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Outerwall Inc. (formerly Coinstar, Inc.) is an American company with a network of movie and game rental kiosks as well as coin-cashing machines. The firm's original focus was the conversion of loose change into paper currency, donations and gift cards via coin counter kiosks. Outerwall operates Coinstar machines which deduct a fee for conversion of coins to banknotes, and Coinstar Exchange for gift cards. The company also owns the Redbox DVD rental service. Outerwall's kiosks are in the front of stores (between the cash registers and the exit/entrance). Outerwall has more than 60,000 kiosks including a variety of services in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Outerwall also produces machines that provide prepaid credit cards, cellular phone cards, tickets to concerts, and e-payment kiosks. It is also developing kiosks for pharmaceutical dispensing. On July 2, 2013, Outerwall started trading on the NASDAQ as OUTR, changing its name from Coinstar.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/outerwall-celebrate-name-ticker-logo-100000881.html )〕 == History == The company was founded in 1991 as Coinstar, Inc. and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. As Coinstar began rolling out units in the mid 1990s, the US Mint and Federal Reserve were heavily affected by the return of coins into the economy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Penny Shortages in Mid-Atlantic States )〕 Outerwall, the Mint, and Federal Reserve started coordinating rollouts, and adjusted production rates of coins accordingly. Outerwall cooperated with the US Mint in the introduction of the Golden Dollar at the beginning of the millennium and encouraged people to use coins rather than notes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=U.S. Mint Announces Program To Encourage Citizens To Re-circulate Coins )〕 In February 2009, Coinstar purchased all remaining shares of DVD rental kiosk company Redbox for $175 million from McDonald's Corporation, making Outerwall the sole owner. Prior to this, Coinstar and McDonald's each owned 47% of Redbox shares with various other parties owning the remaining 6%. On June 28, 2013, shareholders voted to change the company name from Coinstar to Outerwall. On July 2, 2013, Coinstar acquired mobile phone recycling kiosk operators ecoATM, for $350 million (not including debt) and the company name was changed to Outerwall. On October 7, 2013, Barry Rosenstein's hedge fund JANA Partners filed a 13D on shares of Outerwall (OUTR) and disclosed a new 13.5% ownership stake in OUTR with 3,777,995 shares. The activist 13D filing indicated that JANA expected to talk with management—in particular, that they wanted to focus on "a review of strategic alternatives including exploring a strategic transaction, selling or discontinuing certain businesses, or pursuing a sale." Subsequently, on December 9, 2013, Outerwall CEO J. Scott Di Valerio announced it would discontinue three new ventures and lay off 8.5% of its workforce. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Outerwall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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