Notable Australian coin-op specialist Mark Robins has died suddenly at the age of only 58.
He was the principal of CoinOpSolutions, in Bentleigh East, Victoria, a significant distributor of games and also the largest operator of crane machines in Austrlia.
Robins died suddenly of a heart attack at the weekend at his home. He leaves a wife, Paul, daughter Amy and son Aaron.
He set the company up in 1999 with Lindsay Clark after they were given the chance to buy a crane machine at the back of a 24-hour takeaway shop in Perth, Western Australia. That led to them setting up the business.
Robins moved to Melbourne, Victoria, and his company became the dominant supplier of cranes to the Australian industry, with contracts for service with the major shopping centre groups.
The company was joined by Michael Jarjoura, today’s managing director, in 2008 who used commercial expertise to advance the company still further until it today operates over 800 cranes across the country.
