Rival businesses to merge from May 2008; Further consolidation in early ‘09
The leading games retailer can begin the integration of the two companies in earnest after the Competition Commission finally approved GAME’s £74 million acquisition of Gamestation - but that doesn’t mean a summer of major upheaval, said deputy CEO and group finance director David Thomas.
“We’ll start to implement the integration in the second full year – post May 2008,” he told MCV. “It’s a situation where once you get to September, you have to ensure that the business is in good shape and everything is ready for Christmas.
“So we have a window between now and September 2008 to undertake some elements of the integration, and then we would expect further elements of integration will roll into 2009.”
As GAME Group celebrated a phenomenal Christmas of record-breaking sales, CEO Lisa Morgan added that she has nothing but praise for the Gamestation team: “I think it’s a real credit to the Gamestation business that while all this uncertainly has been going on, they’ve put 100 per cent focus and passion into delivering record breaking results.”
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SO WHY HAVE YOU GOT RID OF CLASSIC RETRO STUFF?
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gamestation always remove retro over the xmas period so that have more to put new stock on the shelves. Then they reintroduce retro end of jan beginning of feb.
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''As GAME Group celebrated a phenomenal Christmas of record-breaking sales, CEO Lisa Morgan added that she has nothing but praise for the Gamestation team:''
Guess what we got for christmas from the management team at game because of all our hard work during the year - a small selection of ****ins, how generous - but hey, we should be happy we're just getting paid minimum wage for the stuff we put up with.
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hmm, apparently the word ****ins is filtered
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GAH! well, lets just say they were a cake that is usually eaten at breakfast and they can come in blueberry flavour.
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