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In 2003 Qubica acquired the Mendes company, a maker of pinsetters, ball returns, and automated scoring systems. [ 3 ] QubicaAMF Worldwide was formed in July 2005 when AMF Bowling Worldwide contributed the assets of its Bowling Products Division and Qubica Lux S.à r.l. (successor owner of Qubica) contributed Qubica S.p.A. to a new joint venture ...
[4] In 2005, AMF Bowling's products division and Italian-based Qubica Worldwide formed a 50/50 joint venture, QubicaAMF Worldwide. [5] AMF Bowling went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in November 2012. In its filing the company cited the challenge of adjusting to “the marked shift in the average bowling customer”. [3]
The company's main bowling center brands in the United States include the namesake Lucky Strike Lanes (which the then-Bowlero Corporation acquired in 2023) [5], Bowlero, the upscale Bowlmor Lanes, and the legacy AMF Bowling brand. The company's U.S. centers represent 7% of the country's 4,200 commercial bowling centers. [6]
The Bowling World Cup was created by AMF's European Promotions Director at the time, Victor Kalman, and Gordon Caie, AMF's Promotions Manager in the UK at the time. [2] Dublin, Ireland in 1965 hosted the first-ever Bowling World Cup, then called the International Masters. 20 bowlers, all men, participated.
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The United States company AMF Bowling opened its first centre in the United Kingdom in Stamford Hill, North London on 20 January 1960. Between 1967 and 1970, AMF Bowling UK acquired its first 15 centres. After Goldman Sachs purchased AMF Bowling in 1996, the number of centres owned and operated by AMF Bowling in the UK rose in 1997 from 15 to ...
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A 5-pin bowling pinsetter in use at a bowling alley in Toronto Pinsetters in operation at a bowling alley as seen from behind the lanes. In bowling, a pinsetter or pinspotter is an automated mechanical device that sets bowling pins back in their original positions, returns bowling balls to the front of the alley, and clears fallen pins on the pin deck.