BUSINESS
MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER IN UNCERTAIN
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Chris Chartrand, president of Kegel
World Bowling’s CEO Andrew Oram
Interviews for this story were conducted amid government and private sector shutdowns and rapidly changing health reports from the U.S. and across the globe regarding the COVID19 virus pandemic.
QubicaAMF inks historic deal with World Bowling, and then COVID-19 ensues
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Pat Ciniello, chairman of QAMF
By Jim Goodwin
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new partnership, which was explained in a Memorandum of Understanding, makes QubicaAMF the exclusive supplier of capital bowling equipment, lane maintenance and technology, and event venues for all World Bowling Championships and World Bowling Tour Finals, including Zone Championships, the QubicaAMF World Cup, and the new ParaBowling World Cup (PWC) which is officially recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The PWC will run as a stand-alone event in direct relationship to the QubicaAMF World Cup; the PWC will be in the same location as the QubicaAMF World Cup each year. In 2020, these two events will be hosted in Kuwait, November 8-21, 2020. “We are very excited about our new deal with World Bowling,” said QubicaAMF chairman Pat Ciniello. “I’m sure World Bowling CEO Andrew Oram can tell you much more, but we think this will be an enormous boost toward achieving bowling’s Olympic goals. World Bowling has come close in the past, and this time we want to help them cross the finish line. Our primary business is developing and selling products, but we are also passionate about the sport, and we believe together we can get it done.”
