BMI Gaming
Company News | 2004
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BMI Gaming is the #1 most visited commercial arcade gaming website
in
the world for
coin-operated
games, gameroom products and other related products and information,
and is ranked within the Top 50,000 of over 20,000,000
websites tracked by
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Current BMI Gaming News
12/17/04
- BMI Gaming
announced that was recently featured in full page article about the growing
national
popularity of classic arcade games and home gamerooms in
The New York Times, which
was released
for nationwide publication on Sunday, January 2nd, 2005
Click to see the online
article | Click to see the
paper edition (coming soon)
12/10/04
- BMI Gaming
announced that was recently mentioned in a short article featuring the
"Arcade Legends" multi-game video machine in
The Kiplinger Personal Finance Magazine
in the December 2005 edition.
Click to see the online
article | Click to see the
paper edition (coming soon)
12/04/04
- BMI Gaming
announces that its Founder and CEO, David Young, was the focus of a
recent
radio interview yesterday on "The Business Shrink" radio show, simulcast on
both WRTN
FM in Chicago and WBIG-AM in New York, discussing BMI Gaming's
rapid growth and success.
11/05/04 -
BMI Gaming announces it launched
two new gaming product categories on its
its website recently, Casino / Gaming Products
and Food / Soda Vending Machines
11/03/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that its record sales revenues for October 2004 has
made it
the # 1 top-selling distributor of arcade games for homes /
offices in the entire nation.
11/01/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that its company website has just been awarded the
distinguished "AAWM
Gold Award
"
for Excellence In Website Design, Layout and Content,
for
its main e-commerce site, www.bmigaming.com, by the
American Association Of Webmasters
10/29/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that it will be a sponsor supplying gifts and games
for the16th Annual Miami Dolphins Super Bowl Of Fashion Black Tie Event for
the benefit of
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at the Broward County Convention Center
on November 9th.
10/27/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that it has signed an agreement to be the
official
gaming sponsor of the new upcoming
Discovery Channel series "Dude
Room",
and will have
a ongoing, on-screen role in introducing new games to show
recipients. This brand new series,
with 40 episodes planned to air this season, will be the lead-in
show for the two
top-rated
Discovery Channel TV hits,
Monster Garage and
American Chopper.
10/26/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that it will be mentioned in a upcoming
national promotion for the popular past television hit series "21 Jump
Street".
10/15/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that it will be the first in the industry to take
its message to the airways - the internet airwaves, with a targeted
campaign to air
on
Club977.com Radio,
Shoutcast's
# 2 rated internet radio station in the world,
which
reaches on average over two million
listeners per month.
10/07/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that its Founder and CEO, David L. Young,
will be the subject of a feature article in a upcoming edition of
Florida Trend Magazine,
scheduled to be released on newsstands early November 2004.
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article | Click to see the
paper edition (coming soon)
09/27/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that it is now holds title to the "web links leader"
in the coin-operated gaming market on Yahoo! with over
29,500 indexed links pointing
directly
back to the main BMI Gaming web site, www.bmigaming.com
09/24/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that the company, along with its Founder / CEO,
David L. Young, will be the subject of featured business article in the
upcoming November
2004 edition of FORTUNE Magazine's
FORTUNE Small
Business.
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article | Click to see the
paper edition (coming soon)
09/23/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that it will be featured in a upcoming national
spotlight article
appearing the current Sept 24, 2004 edition of both the
South Florida
Business Journal
and many of the 41 other BizJournals.com print
publications and
online web sites in
most major business
markets across the nation.
Click to see the online
article | Click to see the
paper edition
09/21/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that it will be mentioned in a upcoming article in
Kiplinger Personal Finance Magazine, a
1.2 million circulation financial interests magazine.
09/01/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that it will be mentioned in a upcoming article in
TDMonthly Magazine, a
national publication for
the toy, hobby, gift and game industries.
09/01/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that the internet tracking website
Alexa.com has
now included BMI Gaming in its
list of the
"Top
5 Most Visited Coin-Op Sites In The World"
08/27/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that in partnership with
Incredible Technologies,
and in conjunction with WCW, it has developed the first factory authorized " Home Edition "
of the famed
Golden Tee
® Fore! 2005 Video Golf
Arcade Game
to come with a factory
warranty, and is now accepting orders
for the first release to be shipped by Oct 1, 2004.
08/15/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that its Founder and CEO, David Young will be
the focus of a televised business show "Profile of Success", which
features interviews with
nationally recognized business achievers, which will be
produced by a local PBS affiliate.
08/23/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that it has been factory authorized to carry the
entire JVL Corporation line of touchscreen
countertop and upright video arcade
games.
08/16/04 - BMI Gaming
announced today that it has been factory authorized to carry the
famous
Champion Shuffleboard ™ line of
quality shuffleboard tables and accessories.
08/16/04 - BMI Gaming
announced today that it has been factory authorized to carry the
Design Plus Industries™ line of
professional coin-op bowling alleys and table games.
08/15/04 - BMI Gaming
announced today that its Founder and CEO, David Young was
the focus of a recent business article in the
Palm Beach Post about BMI Gaming and the
the rapid sales growth of the firm.
08/07/04 - BMI Gaming
announced today that it will have another industry first by being the
first retailer in the gaming industry to deploy fully interactive,
portable wireless internet kiosk
technology for online ordering and catalog information at its headquarters
location, with plans
to expand the program to various malls, high-traffic national events and
planned retail locations
to be opened in the near future in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas
and Washington, DC
08/05/04 - BMI Gaming
announced today that is has partnered with the PBS
Network
and
WXEL-TV
in conjunction with the stations fundraising efforts by use of certain games
for
on-air
broadcasting and fundraising endeavors.
07/11/04
- BMI Gaming
announced today that its site,
www.bmigaming.com, was the most
visited retail website for arcade games in the
past four weeks, according to
online statistics
published by Alexa.com
(a unit of Amazon.com), In addition to having the world's largest
retail
arcade gaming
website, and
now the largest arcade game showroom,
it can now add the top
position for arcade
game retailing websites to its growing list of major
milestones.
07/10/04
- BMI Gaming
announced that its web site,
www.bmigaming.com, was ranked
as the # 2 web site in the world in its category (arcade games dealers), and
has earned
the # 1 spot for the highest ranked "trusted" website for online arcade game
retailers by
Ranking.com,
a internet site traffic and trust / reliability ranking service.
07/03/04
- BMI Gaming
announced that in partnership with
Eagle Rock Entertainment
and
Comedy Central, it is the
exclusive sponsor of the national rollout of "
The Man Show "
DVD
Season 2
in commercials to be aired in major DMA markets nationwide during the
months
of July and August.
Download the video clip here (LARGE FILE - 7.1MB - MOV Format -
RealPlayer Required)
06/07/04
- BMI Gaming
announced new expansion plans today to double the current size
of
its existing game showroom in South Florida, already one of the largest in
the world, to
over 6,000 sq ft of display space, which will contain over 175 + games, by late July
2004.
06/04/04
- BMI Gaming joins the
Int'l Association for the Leisure and
Entertainment Industry,
(IALEI) a leading worldwide association for Family Amusement Centers (FEC's)
&
arcades.
06/03/04 -
BMI Gaming announced today it has reached
another milestone in its campaign
to be the leading distributor of amusement
devices to the home and office by recently being
included in the
top 100,000 websites of the world
as tallied by online firm Ranking.com
05/28/04 -
BMI Gaming announces it has been
authorized to carry the world famous
Stiga™
brand Professional Table Tennis products and accessories, along with the
Murray
line of
quality Billiard Tables and the
Mizerak line of Billiard
Accessories.
05/19/04 -
BMI Gaming announces it was
recently featured in a article appearing in the
Robb Report "The Best of The Best
2004" issue entitled "For Amusement Only" with
comments about the home gaming industry from its Founder and CEO, David
Young.
05/18/04 -
BMI Gaming announces it launched
two new gaming product categories on
its website recently, Pool /
Billiard Tables and Table Tennis
/ Ping Pong Tables
05/10/04 -
BMI Gaming announces record
gross sales for the first quarter of 2004, with a
1483% increase in sales revenues for Q1/2004 compared to the same period in
Q1/2003.
05/09/04
-
BMI Gaming announces it has been
informed that the company will be featured
in an upcoming article about pinball machines and pinball collecting, to be
published in the
high-end consumer lifestyle magazine, the "Robb Report"
Best of The Best 2004 edition.
04/27/04
-
BMI Gaming reaches yet another
web milestone, with its web traffic bandwidth rate approaching the 100GB/per month mark on its main e-commerce site,
www.bmigaming.com,
which now spans over 250
+
information and product
pages containing almost 750 thousand
(742,245) words online currently, with more content and product pages to
be added shortly.
04/26/04 -
BMI Gaming
announces that its expansion into upright and large video games is
nearly complete, with total sales generated from these lines equaling
approximately 40 %
of total
gross sales in FY2004, up from zero percent sales in FY2003.
04/23/04 -
BMI Gaming
announces its third physical expansion in less than twelve months at
its current headquarters
location; this expansion will include a brand new Warehousing Center
that will
consolidate most existing storage facilities into one space, and the
movement of its
current executive offices to the new headquarters addition, with
construction scheduled to
end late May 2004 and occupancy to commence approximately mid-June 2004.
04/19/04 -
BMI Gaming announces
it has added the
Shelti™
line of commercial-quality tables
games (foosball, air hockey, dome hockey and pool tables) to its growing roster of
top-quality
game franchises it distributes to the
rapidly-growing home and office gaming markets.
03/12/04
-
BMI Gaming announced today that
is has joined the American
Amusement
Machine
Association (AAMA), the American gaming industry's premier trade organization.
03/08/04
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BMI Gaming announced today the grand
opening of its new Service & Technology
Center, and will shortly
begin research and development of new arcade games specifically
targeted to the home and office recreation markets for initial release in
mid to late 2005.
02/21/04
-
BMI Gaming announced today that
is has joined the membership of the
Amusement
and Music Operators
Association (AOMA) the
leading game and route operators association.
01/10/04
-
BMI Gaming announced today it has reached
yet another milestone in its campaign
to be the leading distributor of amusement
devices to the home and office in the USA by being
ranked in the
top
1% percentile of all websites in the world based on the 16,660,000
current
websites tracked online in December by
Alexa, a firm that publishes data on website rankings.
01/05/04 -
BMI Gaming
announces another physical expansion at its current headquarters
location to include a brand new Service and Technology Center that will
consolidate all
existing
operations into one unit, with the center scheduled to open within the next
90 Days.
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BMI Gaming News from 2003
