COPAG, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of playing cards, has been chosen by PokerStars.com, the biggest and most innovative international online poker website, to produce the 100% Plastic range of playing cards with the Pokerstars.com, Pokerstars.net, LAPT- Latin American Poker Tour and EPT - European Poker Tour brand names.

Developed from surveys of professional players, dealers and croupiers, Copag’s 100% plastic playing cards are manufactured from special raw materials which afford easy handling and dealing of the cards, as well as flexibility appropriate to the players’ needs. Perfect for dealing the cards, they do not easily crumple and are difficult to mark.

“Copag values highly the partnership with PokerStars, as it underscores the excellence of our playing cards”, stresses Mariana Lopes, the company’s marketing director. PokerStars is a global force in the world of poker, with over 13 million players all over the world who use these websites and interact with the brands. The site hosts the largest online tournament in the world, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and sponsors the sport’s main tournaments and also players like Daniel Negreanu, a poker legend.

Founded in 1908 by Albino Gonçalves in the city of Sao Paulo, COPAG is the absolute leader of the Brazilian playing card market and completes its 100th anniversary in 2008. The company is able to call on an extensive product portfolio that includes cards for playing and customized cards, and since 2005, has been a member of the Cartamundi group, the largest in the world in the segment which includes playing cards and other card games. The Copag factory is located in the Manaus Industrial Zone and the company exports its products to the USA and a variety of countries in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. (E-12.15.08)

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