GameStop Once Again Participates in Annual St. Jude Thanks and Giving® Campaign
October 28 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
GameStop and its family of retail brands aim
to raise $1 million to help advance research and treatment of
childhood cancer and other life threatening diseases
The specialty retailer invites customers and
associates to “give thanks” this holiday season by participating in
the annual in-store and online donation effort
GameStop, a family of specialty retail brands that makes the
most popular technologies affordable and simple, announced today
that it will again partner with St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital® for the St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign to help
advance research and treatment of childhood cancer. As part of the
annual fundraising effort, GameStop will invite their customers and
associates to donate to this important cause while shopping
in-store and online this holiday season.
This is GameStop’s third consecutive year participating in the
campaign. Since first joining the annual holiday fundraising event,
the company has raised more than $1.5 million thanks to the
donations and support of its customers and associates. This year,
GameStop aims to raise another $1 million for St. Jude. These funds
are crucial given that no family ever receives a bill from St. Jude
for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family
should worry about is helping their child live.
“What better way to help spread the holiday cheer this year than
to donate to such an amazing charity as St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital,” said Matt Hodges, Vice President of Public and
Investor Relations for GameStop. “Since first partnering with St.
Jude three years ago, our team of passionate associates has
continued to demonstrate the giving spirit of GameStop by inviting
customers to contribute to St. Jude. Through the generous donations
given each year by our customers, we have been able to help the
patients and families of St. Jude.”
Beginning November 1 and running through the end of the year,
customers can stop by any GameStop, Simply Mac, or Spring Mobile
AT&T stores to make a donation. Customers can also donate at
the newly opened ThinkGeek store located in The Florida Mall, in
Orlando, Florida. Additionally, customers may donate online at
www.gamestop.com, or can learn more about the St. Jude Thanks and
Giving® campaign by visiting GameStop’s mobile game publishing
subsidiary Kongregate’s website at www.kongregate.com, or its Game
Informer magazine website at www.gameinformer.com.
As a ‘thank you’ to customers who donate $1 or more, this year
GameStop is offering triple PowerUp Reward points, an extra 10%
trade-in value for all Xbox One and PlayStation 4 games traded in
and a 25% discount on a custom Skin-It sleeve design.
“I am so grateful for GameStop’s continued dedication to helping
the children and families of St. Jude,” said Marlo Thomas, National
Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
“GameStop’s participation in the St. Jude Thanks and Giving
campaign makes it easy for its customers to help our doctors and
scientists continue the research and treatment that leads to cures
and gives these children the chance to enjoy many more holidays for
years to come.”
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the
world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other
life-threatening diseases. Treatments invented at St. Jude have
helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20
percent to more than 80 percent since it opened more than 50 years
ago, and they won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. The
hospital freely shares the breakthroughs it makes, so every child
saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use
that knowledge to save thousands more children.
Created by Marlo, Terre and Tony Thomas – children of St. Jude
founder Danny Thomas – the St. Jude Thanks and Giving campaign asks
people to “Give thanks for the healthy kids in your life, and give
to those who are not” in order to help St. Jude continue its
mission of finding cures and saving children.
To find your local GameStop, Simply Mac, or Spring Mobile
AT&T stores, visit www.gamestop.com, www.simplymac.com, or
www.springmobile.com. To learn more about the St. Jude Thanks and
Giving campaign or to make a donation, visit www.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 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 6,800 stores across 14
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 the recently acquired Geeknet,
Inc., parent company of ThinkGeek, www.thinkgeek.com, the premier
retailer for the global geek community featuring exclusive and
unique video game and pop culture products. In addition, our
Technology Brands segment includes Simply Mac and Spring Mobile
stores. Simply Mac, www.simplymac.com, operates 72 stores, selling
the full line of Apple products, including laptops, tablets, and
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 590 AT&T
branded stores and offers pre-paid wireless services, devices and
related accessories through its 69 Cricket branded stores in select
markets in the U.S.
General information about GameStop Corp. can be obtained at the
company’s corporate website. Follow @GameStop on Twitter and find
GameStop on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GameStop.
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