{"id":5360,"date":"2015-09-21T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T09:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=5360"},"modified":"2015-09-21T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T09:40:11","slug":"company-snapshot-gamestop-holdings-corp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/09\/company-snapshot-gamestop-holdings-corp\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: GameStop Holdings Corp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can\u2019t Stop GameStop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address<\/strong><br \/>\n625\u00a0Westport Parkway<br \/>\nGrapevine, TX 76051-6740<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telephone<\/strong><br \/>\n(817)\u00a0424-2000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internet Homepage<\/strong><br \/>\nwww.gamestop.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Founded<\/strong><br \/>\n1994<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Stores<\/strong><br \/>\n7,174<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Annual Sales<\/strong><br \/>\n$9,296,000,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executives<\/strong><br \/>\nDaniel A. \u00a0DeMatteo- Chairman<br \/>\nJ. Paul\u00a0Raines- CEO<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As popular as video games and gaming are now, at the beginning of GameStop\u2019s founding this industry was seen as one with a great, though uncertain potential for growth.\u00a0 Personal computers were similarly at an early stage of household ownership. Apple seemed to be surviving after struggling for its very existence.<\/p>\n<p>Through its first two decades, GameStop has been quick to anticipate trends and jump on opportunities for growth.\u00a0 The company was not assuming that the success of its corporate focus on the growth of its branding of electronic games was inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>GameStop acquired its greatest competitor EB Games (formerly Electronics Boutique) in 2005 for $1.44 billion. More recently the company has grown its competitive games tournament segment, as these competitions gain worldwide stature and are viewed and increasingly financed similarly to major sporting events.<\/p>\n<p>On the retailing front, the company has decided not to place all of its eggs in one gaming basket.\u00a0 The company is eagerly investing in the growth of its Technology Brands segment which includes Spring Mobile stores.\u00a0 Since its acquisition by GameStop, Spring Mobile has become AT&amp;T\u2019s largest authorized reseller.<\/p>\n<p>Always looking for opportunities which seem a natural fit for the company\u2019s increasingly diverse portfolio, GameStop recently won a bidding war to acquire Geeknet, owner of the apparel website ThinkGeek, for $140 million.\u00a0 GameStop now plans to open notably modern brick and mortar retail locations offering collectibles under the ThinkGeek brand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can\u2019t Stop GameStop &nbsp; Address 625\u00a0Westport Parkway Grapevine, TX 76051-6740 Telephone (817)\u00a0424-2000 Internet Homepage www.gamestop.com Year Founded 1994 Total Stores 7,174 Total Annual Sales $9,296,000,000 Senior Executives Daniel A. \u00a0DeMatteo- Chairman J. Paul\u00a0Raines- CEO &nbsp; As popular as video games and gaming are now, at the beginning of GameStop\u2019s founding this industry was seen as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/09\/company-snapshot-gamestop-holdings-corp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Company Snapshot: GameStop Holdings Corp.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-5360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discount-specialty","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}