QubicaAMF Worldwide or QubicaAMF is a bowling equipment provider. The company has U.S. headquarters in Richmond, Virginia and European headquarters in Bologna, Italy.
The company's mascot is an animated anthropomorphic bowling pin character named Qupee. [1]
History
Qubica S.p.A. was founded in Italy in 1993 by Roberto Vaioli, Luca Drusiani, and Emanuele Govoni to "bring amusement innovations to bowlers and center proprietors worldwide."[2]
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 of which each company retained 50% interest.[4]
In March 2012 the joint venture entered into a non-binding offer with Bowltech International B.V. for the possible acquisition of the joint venture.[5]
On July 1, 2013, AMF Bowling Worldwide was reorganized out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and combined with Strike Holdings LLC (doing business as Bowlmor Lanes) to form Bowlmor AMF[6] (now known as Bowlero Corporation). On July 31, 2013, QubicaAMF Worldwide announced that it was no longer for sale, stating that, “Under the circumstances a year ago, a transaction with Bowltech presented a great opportunity for QubicaAMF. However, with the full support of our new ownership team a transaction is no longer needed.”[7]
In September 2013 the Qubica founders, as well as legacy partners Guido Sorba, Pat Ciniello, Frank Mascadri and Rich Albright, bought the remaining shares from the European private equity fund that co-owned Qubica, giving them 50% ownership of QubicaAMF. In December 2014 the Qubica founders and partners acquired the 50% owned by Bowlmor AMF (Bowlero), giving them 100% ownership of QubicaAMF.[3]
In November 2016 QubicaAMF acquired CDE Software, a major developer and marketer of software to track leagues and tournaments.[8]
Products
QubicaAMF is an American Bowling Manufacturer that provide bowling Equipment. The Bowling Equipment are pinspotters, Automatic Scoring Systems, fun bowling concepts, Bowling Lanes, MINI-bowling lanes, Ball Returns & furniture that are shown in a table.
QubicaAMF Products
Name
model
notes
Type of Bowling
BES X
Automatic Scoring System
Current state of art for automatic scoring; control desk software known as Conqueror
10 pin; 5 pin
Highway 66
Mini-Bowling
Used in Some Arcades & Big Childrens Playplace and has theming available
10 pin Bowling only
The Suite Spot
Mini-Bowling
Used in some events
Bowling Lanes
Not a Model
Used in new and renovated Bowling Allies
EDGE String
Automatic string Pinspotter (Pinsetter)
QubicaAMF only string pinsetter
EDGE Free fall
Automatic Pinspotter (Pinsetter)
Similar to EDGE string but uses the sweepbar found on AMF 82-70 (SOME)
and AMF 82-90 and is labeled QubicaAMF
Fly n ducks
Duckpin pins
some allies may use Duckpin Bowling the only duckpin bowling that QubicaAMF has.
Duckpin Bowling only
Harmony Furniture
furniture seat for other bowlers while the other bowler has a turn
ball racks are behind 2 bowling seats
all
Harmony Ball Returns
Ball Returns
It is different to most ball returns because it has a button for operational reasons
