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Saturn and FNAC, major hypermarket chains like Carrefour and Auchan, and online retailer Amazon.com.
Competitors in Canada include Wal-Mart, Best Buy and its subsidiary Future Shop. In Australia, competitors
include K-Mart, Target and JB HiFi stores.
Seasonality
Our business, like that of many retailers, is seasonal, with the major portion of our sales and operating profit
realized during the fourth fiscal quarter, which includes the holiday selling season. During fiscal 2012, we
generated approximately 40% of our sales during the fourth quarter. On a pro forma basis, excluding the
53rd week sales from fiscal 2012, we generated approximately 39% of our sales during the fourth quarter. Our
fiscal 2012 operating loss is impacted by $680.7 million of goodwill and asset impairments. Therefore, the
seasonality of our operating earnings (loss) is not comparable between fiscal 2012 and fiscal 2011. Excluding the
impact of the goodwill and asset impairment charges, we generated approximately 65% and 59% of our operating
earnings during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 and fiscal 2011, respectively. During fiscal 2011, we generated
approximately 37% of our sales during the fourth quarter.
Trademarks
We have a number of trademarks and servicemarks, including “GameStop,” “Game Informer,” “EB
Games,” “Electronics Boutique,” “Kongregate,” “BuyMyTronics,” “Power to the Players,” and “PowerUp
Rewards,” which have been registered by us with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. For many of
our trademarks and servicemarks, including “Micromania,” we also have registered or have registrations pending
with the trademark authorities throughout the world. We maintain a policy of pursuing registration of our
principal marks and opposing any infringement of our marks.
Employees
We have approximately 17,000 full-time salaried and hourly employees and between 30,000 and
48,000 part-time hourly employees worldwide, depending on the time of year. Fluctuation in the number of part-
time hourly employees is due to the seasonality of our business. We believe that our relationship with our
employees is excellent. Some of our international employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements,
while none of our U.S. employees are represented by a labor union or are members of a collective bargaining
unit.
Available Information
We make available on our corporate Web site (www.gamestopcorp.com), under “Investor Relations — SEC
Filings,” free of charge, our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on
Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file or
furnish such material to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). You may read and copy this
information or obtain copies of this information by mail from the Public Reference Room of the SEC,
100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549, at prescribed rates. Further information on the operation of the
SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. can be obtained by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The
SEC also maintains a Web site that contains reports, proxy statements and other information about issuers, like
GameStop, who file electronically with the SEC. The address of that site is http://www.sec.gov. In addition to
copies of our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and
amendments to those reports, the Company’s Code of Standards, Ethics and Conduct is available on our Web site
under “Investor Relations — Corporate Governance” and is available to our stockholders in print, free of charge,
upon written request to the Company’s Investor Relations Department at GameStop Corp., 625 Westport
Parkway, Grapevine, Texas 76051.
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