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COINMAN OF THE MONTH
MORRIS
NAHUM
This month's Coinman is a weU-known name in
the industry. The president and founder of Amico
Marketing International Corp., an exporting
company based in New York City, Morris Nahum
has always been interested in international
relations.
Born in Smyrne, Turkey in 1930, he came to the
United States-as he puts it- "totally out of
coincidence. .. He was attached to the Turkish
Corps as a reserve officer during the Korean War.
For services rendered, he was allowed to come to
the States in 1952.
It seems from his earliest days, Mr. Nahum was
into the business of international dealings. He
r~presented several foreign trade magazines in
New York and sold space in them for American
countries interested in doing export marketing.
Subsequently, he was approached by several people
doing export business with Cuba, and he got
involved doing that until Castro took over and he
lost everything.
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Then in 1961, Dick Haim ?f Belam Export Corp.
offered ~r.. Nahu~ the Job of organizing the
company s tnternattonal marketing for coin-oper-
ated ma,chines .. He workedfor Be lam for ten years
~ an mte.rnattonal marketing expert before he
ftnaUy d~ctded to start his own company, Amico
Internattonal Marketing Corp. t'n 1971.
His wife of t1 "~ nty-one years, Mary, a girl from
the old. country, serves as his secretary. They have
two chtldren-a boy, 19, and a gir~ 18. His son, Mr.
Nahum tells us, is very much interested in
economics and international business and wiU
proba~ly go to la'Ll! ~chool afte~ finishing college.
And hts dau:;hter tS mterested m a medical career.
A gr~uate of St. Josep'h's CoUege (A Jesuit
college m Turkey), Mr. Nahum is fluent in five
languages. After being promised that he wouldn't
stray fr.om our 'n!ltive English tongue, we launched
boldly mto the tnterview, anxious to find out how
t~e exporter fits into the overall coin industry
ptcture.
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