UPDATE
EDITION
Vol. 6, No.8
May 1, 1980
staff
C ontinued from page 1
And erson had no firm figure of the
effect of the marketing marriage.
Spokesmen for T ourna m ent Interna-
tional co uld not provide details for
UPDATE by press time .
In related news , AES T echnology
Systems, Inc . , of which Game Plan is
a subsidiary com pany , announced
recently that record sales and
earnings were achieved in its second
fiscal quarter and for th e six months
ending December 31, 1979. Martin
T . Abram s. AES chairman , an -
nounced earnings of $540,000 , or
eleven cents per share , for the
quarter on revenues of approximate-
ly $5 million.
For the six months, operating
revenues for AES were up 133 per
cent from the $3,600,000 reported a
year earlier. for an $8,400 ,000 figure
in the second half of 1979 .
A brams attributed the sharp in -
crease in sales to the acquisition of
Game Plan , which manufacturers
pingames and slot machines .
Publisher and Editor:
Ralph C. Lally II
Editorial Director:
Stern pins to lure heart funds
David Pierson
Managing Editor:
Ray E. Tilley
International Editor:
David Snook
Editor, Coin Slot
Technical Editor:
Zac Oliver
Correspondents :
Pat Matthews
Roger C. Sharpe
Randy Fromm
Charles C. Ross
Art Direction :
Katey Schwark
Circulation Manager &
Classified Advertising :
Valerie Cognevich
Illustrator:
Mars Walker
Advertising Manager:
David Pierson
European Representative :
Esmay Leslie
Stern Electronics will contribute to
the Am erican Heart Association by
luring Am erica's college fraternities
and sororities to use their heads to
benefit heart research. Stern will offer
twenty Mohammed Ali flipp er games
to the " Greeks" who present the
most creative efforts to raise funds for
heart research .
The top twenty fraternities and
sor0 rities in the April competition
w ere to be announced this month by
Stern . according to a spokesperson
for TRG Communications , th e firm
handling the promotion .
The Heart Association promotion
wa s to be outlined in New Orleans at
PLAY M ETER's Amu sement Opera -
tors Expo . The next issue of PLAY
M ETER will carry more details of the
youth -orient ed Stern campaign con -
necting pingames to Heart Associa -
tio n fund s raising .
The promotion has the participa-
tion of "The National Lampoon "
humor magazin e. which will provide
" lifetim e
subscriptions"
to
fifty
runn er-up college organizations in -
volved in the effort .
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Pierre Laniel. left. president of Laniel Automatic in Montreal, and Jean
Coutu. vice president . display their pride in the silver trophy cup presented
at the Gottlieb National Distributor Sales Meeting in Oak Brook . Illinois .
Laniel Automatic was the only Gottlieb distributing ho use outside the
U.S .A. in North America to receive the cup for "more than 25 years of
outstanding service " to the Gottlieb line . Laniel Automatic has been in
business for 45 yea rs in Montreal and at Laniel branches in Canada .