GameStop Plays it Forward & Partners with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® for Annual St. Jude Thanks & Giving® Cam...
November 04 2013 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
GameStop to help raise more than $500,000 for
the treatment and research of childhood cancer
GameStop (NYSE: GME), the world’s largest multichannel retailer
of video games, announced today a partnership with St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital®. As a part of the partnership,
GameStop has set a goal to raise at least $500,000 in charitable
donations for the annual St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign,
which involves an unprecedented union of celebrities, media, retail
and corporate brands, that come together to ask consumers to donate
while they shop during the holiday season and join St. Jude in
finding cures and saving children.
Joining in the fight against deadly childhood illnesses,
GameStop is excited to participate in the St. Jude Thanks and
Giving® campaign for the first time this year. “At GameStop, we are
passionate about giving back in our communities, and this is an
excellent way for us to provide children with a better quality of
life,” said Tony Bartel, president of GameStop. “Being a father of
six children, I can honestly say that the work St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital is doing is nothing short of miraculous. I have
no doubt that we will exceed our goal this year and I’m looking
forward to a long and successful partnership with St. Jude."
St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and
defeats childhood cancer and other deadly diseases. Created by
Marlo, Terre and Tony Thomas – children of St. Jude founder Danny
Thomas – the St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign began as a
holiday-focused fundraising effort and has grown into an annual
tradition that has raised more than $387 million for research and
treatment in the ongoing battle to end childhood cancer.
“We are so thrilled to welcome GameStop into our St. Jude Thanks
and Giving family,” said Marlo Thomas, national outreach director
for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “Thanks to the generous
support of partners like GameStop and its patrons, we can continue
my father Danny Thomas’ promise that no family ever pays St. Jude
for anything.”
Customers who shop at GameStop beginning November 6, 2013, until
December 24, 2013, will have the opportunity to donate $1 to the
children at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. GameStop and St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital are asking the public to, "Give
thanks for the healthy kids in your life, and give to those who are
not.”
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:
Since opening more than 50 years ago, St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital has changed the way the world treats childhood
cancer and other life-threatening diseases. No family ever pays St.
Jude for the care their child receives and, for every child treated
here, thousands more have been saved worldwide through St. Jude
discoveries. The hospital has played a pivotal role in pushing U.S.
pediatric cancer survival rates from 20 to 80 percent overall, and
is the first and only National Cancer Institute-designated
Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. It is also
a leader in the research and treatment of blood disorders and
infectious diseases in children. St. Jude was founded by the late
entertainer Danny Thomas, who believed that no child should die in
the dawn of life. Join that mission by visiting stjude.org or
following us 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 the world's largest
multichannel video game retailer. GameStop's global retail network
and family of brands include 6,505 company-operated stores in 15
countries and online at www.GameStop.com. The network also
includes: www.Kongregate.com, a leading browser-based game site;
Game Informer® magazine, the leading multi-platform video game
publication; Spawn Labs, a streaming technology company; a digital
PC game distribution platform available at www.GameStop.com/PC; and
an online consumer electronics trade-in platform available at
www.BuyMyTronics.com.
General information on 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.
Sarah TriggGameStop Corp.817-722-7938SarahTrigg@GameStop.com
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