Departure Of Old Friends - February 2008
Bowling international are sad to see the departure of old Friends, Mr Peter Molony of Brunswick Group, was a personal friend of Terry Fawdington MD Bowling International, and although they became competitors over the recent years Terry is always sad to see departures and wishes Peter all the best for the future! Good Luck Peter.
Bowling international are sad to see the departure of old Friends, Mr Peter Molony of Brunswick Group, was a personal friend of Terry Fawdington MD Bowling International, and although they became competitors over the recent years Terry is always sad to see departures and wishes Peter all the best for the future! Good Luck Peter.
Pin Plant Closure - January 2008
Brunswick Group announce the closure of the Pin Plant in the USA, Brunswick Bowling & Billiards announced that it is shifting bowling pin production from its Antigo, Wis., facility to a contract manufacturer, resulting in the immediate closure of the Antigo facility. Brunswick Bowling & Billiards is a unit of Brunswick Corporation".
"The marketplace has evolved, and the industry has more capacity to provide pins than it can support," explained Warren N. Hardie, president of Brunswick Bowling & Billiards. "By utilizing contract manufacturing, Brunswick will be able to better focus its efforts on serving customers in the global bowling products market."
The closing of the Antigo facility will result in the elimination of approximately 70 positions. Antigo employees were informed of this action today, and will receive severance and other benefits. The company will be meeting with local union bargaining agents to determine those benefits for union members. Further, Brunswick will continue to pay employees for the next 60 days, even though the plant will be immediately closed, allowing employees to focus their energies on finding their next job, if that is what they so choose.
Closing the Antigo plant is expected to result in charges of approximately $4.5 million in 2008.
Brunswick Group announce the closure of the Pin Plant in the USA, Brunswick Bowling & Billiards announced that it is shifting bowling pin production from its Antigo, Wis., facility to a contract manufacturer, resulting in the immediate closure of the Antigo facility. Brunswick Bowling & Billiards is a unit of Brunswick Corporation".
"The marketplace has evolved, and the industry has more capacity to provide pins than it can support," explained Warren N. Hardie, president of Brunswick Bowling & Billiards. "By utilizing contract manufacturing, Brunswick will be able to better focus its efforts on serving customers in the global bowling products market."
The closing of the Antigo facility will result in the elimination of approximately 70 positions. Antigo employees were informed of this action today, and will receive severance and other benefits. The company will be meeting with local union bargaining agents to determine those benefits for union members. Further, Brunswick will continue to pay employees for the next 60 days, even though the plant will be immediately closed, allowing employees to focus their energies on finding their next job, if that is what they so choose.
Closing the Antigo plant is expected to result in charges of approximately $4.5 million in 2008.
Down Under - October 24th 2007
Switch Entertainment is pleased to announce the appointment of Switch Bowling Asia Pacific Pty Ltd, as it's new distributor for Australian and New Zealand. Principals of the company Paul Costante and Steve Jones have joined forces to market, sell and service the Switch product range in the Territory.
Paul's bowling career started in 1982. His expertise is on the technical side of things. He currently distributes parts and supplies as well as representing Kegel. He has also served as technical delegate for FIQ events in Australia. Paul will naturaly be responsible for all the technical and service side of the business.
Whereas Steve who started his bowling career in 1972, will be the director of the company and responsible for the marketing and sales side of the business. His former responsibilities ranged from Director of Marketing Australia Tenpin Bowling Congress, Regional Manager for AMF Bowling Centres Australia and General Manager Asia & Pacific for Brunswick. He has a vast experience in managing and supervising bowling centre operations.
"We are very pleased to count Steve and Paul amongst our friends and colleagues" said Alain Winterhalter of Switch. "We are sure that their experience and professionalism will not only be an advantage for Switch, but it will also be of great assistance to all the customers".
Switch Entertainment is pleased to announce the appointment of Switch Bowling Asia Pacific Pty Ltd, as it's new distributor for Australian and New Zealand. Principals of the company Paul Costante and Steve Jones have joined forces to market, sell and service the Switch product range in the Territory.
Paul's bowling career started in 1982. His expertise is on the technical side of things. He currently distributes parts and supplies as well as representing Kegel. He has also served as technical delegate for FIQ events in Australia. Paul will naturaly be responsible for all the technical and service side of the business.
Whereas Steve who started his bowling career in 1972, will be the director of the company and responsible for the marketing and sales side of the business. His former responsibilities ranged from Director of Marketing Australia Tenpin Bowling Congress, Regional Manager for AMF Bowling Centres Australia and General Manager Asia & Pacific for Brunswick. He has a vast experience in managing and supervising bowling centre operations.
"We are very pleased to count Steve and Paul amongst our friends and colleagues" said Alain Winterhalter of Switch. "We are sure that their experience and professionalism will not only be an advantage for Switch, but it will also be of great assistance to all the customers".
40th International Opens Singapore - September 30th 2007
Switch installed 2 championship lanes at the Velocity centre in Singapore. This allowed the Singapore Bowling Federation to hold their 40th international Open Championship in front of a capacity crowd of 2000 people. The step ladder finals were telecast live on ESPN.
Over 140 international bowlers from around 15 different countries joined the 300 local bowlers for this week long event.
During the week, the Singapore Federation organised a 48 hour non stop bowling marathon on the 2 Switch lanes, breaking all records of similar events in Singapore and entering in to the certified book of records.
The lanes were completely equipped with the latest Switch Entertainment state of the art Pininfarina designed equipment. St1 pinsetters and masking units, Switch synthetic lanes and Ball return Hood & Rack, Switch scoring equipment, and Switch Pininfarina Seating. The entire equipment performed flawlessly during the entire week. Mrs Jessie Pua, President of the Singapore Bowling Federation and President elect of the FIQ wrote:
First and foremost, on behalf of SingaporeBowling I wish to extend our heartfelt appreciation and sincerest thanks for your kind support of our 40th Singapore Open.
The supply of these 2 Switch lanes certainly raised not only the status of our tournament - more importantly it put both SingaporeBowling as well as SWITCH in the forefront of the bowling world. This ultra novel way to present our event as well as your very futurist-designed bowling equipment aroused a lot of interest, awareness and its history creating feature ensured both our organisations are featured prominently by all manners of media in both Singapore and throughout Asia.
We were so fortunate to be able to showcase the above to both our Minister for Sports as well as our Minister for Defence who is also the President of the Singapore National Olympic Council as both were our Guest-of-Honour for our Opening and Closing Ceremony of the Singapore Open. Both were very impressed and recognised that there may be other potentials to bring this sport of tenpin bowling out to the people.
With best regards
Jessie Phua
President
SingaporeBowling
Switch installed 2 championship lanes at the Velocity centre in Singapore. This allowed the Singapore Bowling Federation to hold their 40th international Open Championship in front of a capacity crowd of 2000 people. The step ladder finals were telecast live on ESPN.
Over 140 international bowlers from around 15 different countries joined the 300 local bowlers for this week long event.
During the week, the Singapore Federation organised a 48 hour non stop bowling marathon on the 2 Switch lanes, breaking all records of similar events in Singapore and entering in to the certified book of records.
The lanes were completely equipped with the latest Switch Entertainment state of the art Pininfarina designed equipment. St1 pinsetters and masking units, Switch synthetic lanes and Ball return Hood & Rack, Switch scoring equipment, and Switch Pininfarina Seating. The entire equipment performed flawlessly during the entire week. Mrs Jessie Pua, President of the Singapore Bowling Federation and President elect of the FIQ wrote:
First and foremost, on behalf of SingaporeBowling I wish to extend our heartfelt appreciation and sincerest thanks for your kind support of our 40th Singapore Open.
The supply of these 2 Switch lanes certainly raised not only the status of our tournament - more importantly it put both SingaporeBowling as well as SWITCH in the forefront of the bowling world. This ultra novel way to present our event as well as your very futurist-designed bowling equipment aroused a lot of interest, awareness and its history creating feature ensured both our organisations are featured prominently by all manners of media in both Singapore and throughout Asia.
We were so fortunate to be able to showcase the above to both our Minister for Sports as well as our Minister for Defence who is also the President of the Singapore National Olympic Council as both were our Guest-of-Honour for our Opening and Closing Ceremony of the Singapore Open. Both were very impressed and recognised that there may be other potentials to bring this sport of tenpin bowling out to the people.
With best regards
Jessie Phua
President
SingaporeBowling
President Putin plays bowling - September 23rd 2007
Ahead of visit to APEC CEO Summit in Australia president Vladimir Putin visited the town of Viluchinsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the country's Far East. It's the main atomic submarine base for Russia's Pacific fleet. Russia's leader met with commanders of the fleet's nuclear submarines and inspected the vessels and crews.
After that Mr. Putin along with Russia's first deputy prime minister Sergey Ivanov and defence minister Anatoly Serdukov paid a visit to the newly built sports center called Ocean which includes a lot of sports and recreational facilities. First they went to check up the swimming pool and aquapark, then they watched the local volleyball team playing. Afterwards the President and the ministers came down to the bowling club equipped with 4 lanes of SWITCH. They took off the jackets and occupied 3 lanes. Unfortunately the Russia's leader was not lucky on strikes that day. The best results shawed first deputy prime minister.
"You play like professional", - noticed Vladimir Putin.
"No, I am just an amateur", - said. Mr. Ivanov. Vladimir Putin said he was satisfied with what he saw in Ocean center.
Ahead of visit to APEC CEO Summit in Australia president Vladimir Putin visited the town of Viluchinsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the country's Far East. It's the main atomic submarine base for Russia's Pacific fleet. Russia's leader met with commanders of the fleet's nuclear submarines and inspected the vessels and crews.After that Mr. Putin along with Russia's first deputy prime minister Sergey Ivanov and defence minister Anatoly Serdukov paid a visit to the newly built sports center called Ocean which includes a lot of sports and recreational facilities. First they went to check up the swimming pool and aquapark, then they watched the local volleyball team playing. Afterwards the President and the ministers came down to the bowling club equipped with 4 lanes of SWITCH. They took off the jackets and occupied 3 lanes. Unfortunately the Russia's leader was not lucky on strikes that day. The best results shawed first deputy prime minister.
"You play like professional", - noticed Vladimir Putin.
"No, I am just an amateur", - said. Mr. Ivanov. Vladimir Putin said he was satisfied with what he saw in Ocean center.
