Year after year the International Bowl Expo has delivered a great show and this year was no exception. This little show has turned into one of the hottest shows on the AAMA Location Trade Show Program. The pavilion began with only 5 booths, this past pavilion was made up of 9,000 sq. ft. And Growing!

AAMA Member companies that were able to reserve their booth spaces early within the pavilion were, AAMA, AMOA, Benchmark, Merit Industries, Namco America, Stern Pinball, Team Play and Tsunami Visual Technologies. Other AAMA members that were present included, Bay-Tek, Fun Industries, Happ Controls, Ideal Software Systems, Rhode Island Novelty, Sammy USA and Theisen Vending.

Your association walked away with a total of 60 leads from attendees interested in coin-op products. As part of your member benefits, the AAMA distributes leads acquired from every location trade show to the entire membership! How's that for service! If you have not received these leads, please contact the AAMA at vcabrera@coin-op.org and we will be happy to e-mail them to you.

At press time, numbers from the International Bowl Expo were not available. But the two-day show had remarkable traffic throughout both days. On behalf of the AAMA, we'd like to thank all of our members for joining us this year, we hope our program served you well. Next stop is IAAPA, where the AAMA pavilion will be bigger and better than ever! The 2005-2006 AAMA Location Trade Show Calendar is due out in August, please look for your registration forms in the mail and on-line. Booths sell out rather quickly so be sure to register for your favorite shows as soon as possible.