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help the Illinois based manufacturer
with " additional expanding activity ."
Ken Anderson, vice president ,
marketing . o f Game Plan . noted
that. " M s. Belarmino brings with her
many years of experience in the coin -
operated amusement business . She
will support the con tinuing increase
of sales activity with additional export
and traffic exp erti se."
Belarmino, form erly with Williams
Electronics , Inc . , will play a key role
in the expanded company marketing
acti vities in coordinatio n and plannig
both domestic and international
sa les .
Kindler appointed
Tom Kindler has been appointed
operations manager of Shaffer Dis-
tributing
Company's
Columbus ,
Ohio home offic e .
Kindler formerly was the northern
Ohio branch manager since Septem-
ber l , 1976 . Prior to that, he se rved
as Shaffer representative in the
northern Ohio area. He has been
with the company for the past seven
years .
Neville named
John Neville was named director
of marketing for Empire Distributing,
Inc., of Chicago recentl y .
Neville , who has a long record in
sales and marketing in the local area,
will be working with Ben Roch etti ,
general sales manager, and Jack
Burns , vice pr~sident of branch
offices.
Empire is the midwest regional
division of the Ball y Group which
includes Advan ce Automatic Sales in
the west and Bally Northeast in the
east .
Belarmino
Murnane will report directly to
Edward M . ( Ted) Lloyd , national
sales manager .
Nickerson elevated
Frank Nickerson . who rec ently
served as sales manager , eastern
region o f WICO C orporation , has
been appointed natio nal sales mana -
ger of the sa me firm .
Nickerson , who joined the firm in
1972 as N ew England territ o ry
manager . will direct th e activities of
the 40 member sales tea m .
In making the announcement,
Steve Parks , WICO executive vice
president. stat ed " [ am pleased to
have Frank Nickerson lead our sales
team as WICO enters its fifth decade
of servi ce to the amusement and
vending industries ."
H e will be relocating to Chicago
with his wife , Robe rta , and their two
chi ldren .
Murnane
Murnane moves
Bela rm lno tapped
Game Plan , Inc . , recently tapped
Andee Belarmino in the capacity of
marketing and sales coordinator to
John F. Murnane has been
appointed sales manager for the
midwest zone of Rowe International ,
Inc . H e previously had been national
sa les manager for Micro-Magnetic
Industries , Inc.
Nickerson
Anglin
Anglin named veep
FAIRMONT HOTEL -
MARCH 20 -
NEW ORLEANS
22 , 1980
Noah Anglin has been named to
the newly created post of vice
presiden t of engineering and manu -
facturing for Atari 's coin -operated
games division , according to Gene
Lipkin. president of the division .
In his new position, A nglin will
have overall responsibility for all
facets of engineering , manufacturing ,
materials control, and quality for the
division which designs and manufac-
tures coin -operated video amuse-
ment games.
Anglin had been director of
engineering for the division for the
past two years.
Prior to joining Atari , he worked
for IBM in engineering management ;
he was a founder and vice president
of Office Communications , Inc ., now
a division of Savin Corportaion ,
where he helped develop word
processing systems; and he was
director of research for new techno-
logy at Memorex Corporation.