Tuesday, April 5, 2005
"The planet's sole surviving pinball-machine manufacturer"
Business Week profiles Gary Stern, president of the world's only pinball machine maker.
In 1932, there were an estimated 150 pinball-machine makers worldwide ... Although sales have remained stable at about 10,000 units a year, the coin-op business has been on a downward trajectory for years. As recently as the early 1990s, the industry churned out more than 100,000 machines annually.
Link (Thanks, Belle!)
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