GameStop & St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® Invite Consumers to Play it Forward During the Annual St. Jude Thanks & ...
October 29 2014 - 9:00AM
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GameStop to build on the $1 million raised last
year for the treatment and research of childhood cancer
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.
Sarah TriggGameStop Corp.817-722-7938SarahTrigg@GameStop.com
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