GameStop to build on the $1 million raised last year for the
treatment and research of childhood cancer
GRAPEVINE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2014--
GameStop (NYSE: GME), a family of specialty retail brands that makes the
most popular technologies affordable and simple, is again joining forces
with St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital® to ask the public to,
“Give thanks for the healthy kids in your life, and give to those who
are not.” For the second year, GameStop will participate in the annual St.
Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign, inviting
consumers to donate while they shop during the holiday season and join
GameStop and St. Jude in finding cures and saving children.
“Community involvement is a way of life at GameStop, and the St. Jude Thanks
and Giving campaign is one of many ways we offer support,” said Tony
Bartel, president of GameStop. “Clearly meaningful to our associates and
customers, we raised more than $1 million for St. Jude in 2013 through
this initiative and I am confident we will exceed our goal again this
year.”
Customers who shop at GameStop beginning November 3 until December 24,
2014, will have the opportunity to donate in stores or online to help
the children battling cancer and other life-threatening diseases at St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital. As a thank-you, customers who make
donations at any GameStop location will receive a coupon for 10 percent
off the future purchase of a pre-owned game.
In addition, because of the enthusiastic support of the campaign at the
more than 4,200 U.S. GameStop locations in 2013, this year the company
has expanded participation to its family of specialty retail brands. “It
is gratifying to be able to give our associates and customers at
BuyMyTronics.com, Game Informer, Kongregate.com and Spring Mobile, an
AT&T authorized retailer, the opportunity to be part of this incredibly
worthwhile program,” added Bartel.
“We are blessed to have the support from GameStop and their customers,”
said Marlo Thomas, national outreach director for St. Jude. “Their
dedication to the St. Jude Thanks and Giving campaign will help
raise awareness and funds that support the research that leads to
lifesaving treatments for children across the country and around the
world. Their support will also help us stay true to my father's promise
that no family pays St. Jude for anything. I am so grateful for
GameStop’s loyal friendship to the children of St. Jude.”
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world
understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other
life-threatening diseases. Created by Marlo, Terre and Tony Thomas –
children of St. Jude founder Danny Thomas – the St. Jude Thanks and
Giving campaign is an unprecedented union of celebrities, media,
retail and corporate brands, that asks consumers to donate while they
shop during the holiday season to support the lifesaving research and
treatment at St. Jude. What began as a holiday-focused fundraising
effort has grown into an annual tradition that has raised more than $487
million during the past 10 years.
To find your local GameStop, please visit www.GameStop.com.
To learn more about the St. Jude Thanks and Giving campaign or to
make a donation, visit stjude.org
or call 1-800-4STJUDE.
About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital:
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world
understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other
life-threatening diseases. St. Jude has the world’s best survival rates
for some of the most aggressive childhood cancers, and treatments
invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer
survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since we opened more than 50
years ago. St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for
childhood cancer to 90 percent in the next decade. St. Jude freely
shares the breakthroughs we make, and every child saved at St. Jude
means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save
thousands more children. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for
treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry
about is helping their child live. Join the St. Jude mission by visiting
stjude.org or following St. Jude on facebook.com/stjude and
twitter.com/stjude.
About GameStop Corp.
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company
headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, is a global, multichannel video game,
consumer electronics and wireless services retailer. GameStop operates
more than 6,600 stores across 15 countries. The company’s consumer
product network also includes www.gamestop.com;
www.Kongregate.com,
a leading browser-based game site; Game Informer® magazine, the world’s
leading print and digital video game publication; and www.buymytronics.com,
an online consumer electronics trade-in platform. In addition, our
Technology Brands segment includes our Simply Mac, Spring Mobile and
Cricket stores. Simply Mac, www.simplymac.com,
operates 33 stores, selling the full line of Apple products, including
laptops, tablets, smartphones and offering Apple certified warranty and
repair services. Spring Mobile, http://springmobile.com,
sells post-paid AT&T services and wireless products through its 298 AT&T
branded stores. Cricket Wireless, www.cricketwireless.com,
is a new AT&T brand offering pre-paid wireless services, devices and
related accessories. We operate 48 Cricket stores in select markets
throughout the United States.
General information about GameStop Corp. can be obtained at the
company's corporate website. Follow GameStop on Twitter @ www.twitter.com/GameStop and
find GameStop on Facebook @ www.facebook.com/GameStop.
Source: GameStop Corp.
Sarah Trigg
GameStop Corp.
817-722-7938
SarahTrigg@GameStop.com
