GameStop Raises $2.8 Million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®
08 January 2016 - 3:05AM
Business Wire
GameStop and its family of retail brands
sets new record for in-store donations, while helping advance
research and treatment of childhood cancer and other
life-threatening diseases
GameStop (NYSE: GME), a family of specialty retail brands that
makes the most popular technologies affordable and simple,
announced today that it collected $2.8 million as part of its
support of the annual St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® Thanks
and Giving® campaign to help advance research and treatment of
childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
During November and December, GameStop along with its Spring
Mobile AT&T, Simply Mac, ThinkGeek, Kongregate and Game
Informer brands, invited customers and associates to donate to this
important cause through its annual in-store and online donation
program. Collectively, GameStop and its family of brands far
exceeded its $1 million 2015 fund raising goal for the children of
St. Jude.
“Our customers are truly amazing,” said Matt Hodges, vice
president of Public and Investor Relations for GameStop. “Thanks to
each customer that donated. Because of their generosity and the
incredible support of our associates, we collected $2.8 million for
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Together we are all making a
difference in helping the patients and families of St. Jude.”
Since first joining the annual holiday fundraising event in
2013, GameStop and its family of specialty retail brands has raised
a combined total of more than $4.2 million thanks to the donations
and support of its customers and associates. 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.
“The support of our amazing corporate partners, like GameStop,
allows our doctors and scientists to continue our lifesaving work,”
said Marlo Thomas, National Outreach Director for St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital. “Their unwavering commitment to St.
Jude also helps us to keep my father’s founding promise that no
family ever pays St. Jude for anything. At St. Jude, we will never
stop searching for the cures that will save the lives of children
everywhere.”
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 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. It is the only National Cancer
Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to
children. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the
overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80
percent since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago. St.
Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood
cancer to 90 percent, and we won’t stop until no child dies from
cancer. St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, 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,
liking St. Jude on Facebook (facebook.com/stjude) and following us
on Twitter (@stjude).
About GameStop
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 6,900 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 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 76
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 857
AT&T branded stores and offers pre-paid wireless services,
devices and related accessories through its 71 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 @
www.twitter.com/GameStop and find GameStop on Facebook @
www.facebook.com/GameStop.
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