Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JAPAN MAY 2019 118 G2E ASIA 2019 SOLUTIONS SHOWCASE Booth ブース : A1319 THE MATSUI GROUP is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Established in August 1980 in Tokyo, Japan, the company was started by founder Takashi Matsui as a billiard table cloth supplier serving clients in Japan. In the middle of the 1990s, Matsui became the authorized distributor in Japan and Korea for US Playing Card Company, renowned for their “Bee” and “Bicycle” brands of playing cards for casinos, poker and the retail market. In the year 2000, Matsui built a factory for gaming chips under its own brand “Matsui Chips”. Now the company has offices and subsidiaries located worldwide, including Korea, Manchester, Las Vegas, Moscow and Macau, with the Head Office still located in Tokyo. “We are very excited to have this commemorative 40th anniversary year as a group company,” said Managing Director of Matsui’s Macau subsidiary, Shigeki Machida. “After we started representing USPCC in the 1990s, we also started handling a few major slot brands and casino equipment suppliers’ products including gaming chips for our casino customers in Korea. “The big turning point for our company was that our owner made a decision to supply his own brand of gaming chips and built our factory in 2000.” At that time, there were still many chip manufacturers in the market place. Competition was tough and as a newcomer, Matsui was focused on high quality products with a fair price and excellent service. “When we started chip manufacturing, we found there were a lot of customers who were not satisfied with their