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QubicaAMF Worldwide
Company type	Private
Predecessor	AMF Bowling, Qubica Worldwide
Founded	June 14, 2005
Headquarters	Mechanicsville, Virginia and Bologna, Italy
Website	www.qubicaamf.com

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]

In 2003 Qubica acquired the Mendes company, a maker of pinsetters, ball returns, and automated scoring systems.^[3]

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	10 pin Bowling only