American export specialist Belam Distributing has closed down. The company announced on November 26 that it was ending 50 years of coin-op equipment sales to the export market under the Belam name. The company also had a US domestic market distribution business.

Belam was based at Garden City, Long Island, New York, but its president, Marc Haim said that he intended to restart the business number a new name from fresh offices at Great Neck, also in New York.