Costco & GameStop Join Activision Blizzard to Support Veteran Hiring with Special Call of Duty®: Black Ops III Holiday Seaso...
November 05 2015 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
All Profits from Limited Edition Merchandise
Will Support the Call of Duty Endowment’s Work to Connect Veterans
with Quality Employment
Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced merchandising
partnerships with Costco Wholesale
Corporation and GameStop Corp.
to support the Call of Duty Endowment’s nationwide work to help
veterans find high-quality careers after military service. Costco
will sell exclusive, limited edition dog tags packaged with the
highly-anticipated Call of Duty®: Black Ops III in its U.S.
stores, and GameStop will offer an exclusive limited edition
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III challenge coin—sold separately
from the game—in its stores. These unique items will be available
on November 6, 2015, in conjunction with the Call of Duty®:
Black Ops III launch. All profits from sales of the dog tags
and challenge coins will go towards the Call of Duty Endowment’s
support for organizations that prepare veterans to reenter the job
market.
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops III Dog Tags
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Since its creation in 2009, the Call of Duty Endowment has made
significant progress towards its mission to identify and fund the
best and most effective veterans serving organizations. With
an ambitious goal of placing 25,000 veterans in jobs by the end of
2018, the Endowment is well on its way to beating this target,
having funded more than 17,000 placements to date. Participation by
GameStop and Costco in previous years has directly funded the
placement of over 2,600 veterans into jobs. The Call of Duty
Endowment is a non-profit, public benefit corporation.
“More than 500,000 veterans are unemployed in the United States
today, and young veterans are out of work at a rate three times
greater than the national average,” said Brian Hodous, Chief
Customer Officer of Activision Blizzard. “As we approach Veterans
Day and the holiday season, we believe we can best honor those who
have served by helping them find high-quality careers. GameStop and
Costco are incredible partners and I thank them for joining us
again to fight veteran unemployment. Together, we’ve already funded
the placement of over 17,000 veterans and are committed to doing
more.”
“GameStop is proud to support the men and women who serve in our
military by participating in the Call of Duty Endowment program,”
said Bob Puzon, Senior Vice President of Merchandising for
GameStop. “With so many of our customers and GameStop associates
serving our country, partnering with Activision Blizzard in this
great program is our way of saying ‘thank you’ to the brave men and
women who protect and defend our great country every day and the
freedoms we hold dear.”
In a statement, Costco Wholesale Corporation said, “Costco is
pleased to participate in this program, which helps open doors for
our veterans.”
About Activision BlizzardActivision Blizzard, Inc.,
a member of the S&P 500, is the world’s most successful
standalone interactive entertainment company. It develops and
publishes games based on some of the most beloved entertainment
franchises, including Call of Duty®, Destiny®,
Skylanders®, Guitar Hero®, World of Warcraft®, StarCraft®,
Diablo®, and Hearthstone®: Heroes of Warcraft™. The
company is one of the FORTUNE “100 Best Companies To Work For®”
2015. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, it has operations
throughout the world, and its games are played in 196 countries.
Activision Blizzard makes games for leading interactive platforms.
More information about Activision Blizzard and its products can be
found on the company's
website, www.activisionblizzard.com.
About the Call of Duty EndowmentThe Call of Duty
Endowment is a non-profit organization founded by Bobby Kotick, CEO
of Activision Blizzard. The organization seeks to help veterans
find high-quality careers by supporting groups that prepare them
for the job market and by raising awareness of the value vets bring
to the workplace. For more information about the Call of Duty
Endowment, please visit www.callofdutyendowment.org.
About Costco Wholesale CorporationCostco Wholesale
Corporation operates an international chain of Costco membership
warehouses that carry quality, name-brand and related private-label
merchandise at substantially lower prices than are typically found
at conventional wholesale or retail sources. The warehouses are
designed to help small-to-medium-sized businesses reduce costs in
purchasing for resale and for everyday business use. Qualified
individuals also are allowed to purchase for their personal needs.
The company has been recognized throughout the country for
providing its employees with real living wages–the highest in the
industry–and for its ethical business practices.
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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