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more than $300 million in sales and exceeding our
2015 sales goal. We now operate 35 collectibles stores
worldwide under the brand names of Zing Pop Culture
and ThinkGeek, and have plans to open even more of
these stores in 2016.
We demonstrated the giving power of our global family
of associates by giving back in the communities in
which we live, work and play. Combined, our teams
benefited those in need by contributing and helping
raise more than $6 million in both monetary and in-kind
donations. We continued supporting our charitable
partners, Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Ronald
McDonald House Charities and St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital by volunteering in their national
and local fund-raising activities. We also took care of
our GameStop family by awarding financial grants and
college scholarships through our Gamer Fund employee
assistance program.
Looking ahead, we will continue to embrace our
high rate of change to transform GameStop from
a traditional brick and mortar video game retailer
into a global family of specialty retail brands. We
will accomplish this by re-inventing our video game
business through the pursuit of innovative ideas within
our stores, like expanding our in-store collectibles
section to oer an even greater choice of products,
and creating a new Indie Game section to oer gamers
exclusive new titles and content. We will also leverage
the continued growth of our Technology Brands to
deliver higher profits to our shareholders. We will
continue to seek out investments in new businesses
in adjacent retail brands, or product categories, with
billion-dollar revenue potential. All of this will be done
by adhering to our disciplined approach to capital
allocation to reward our shareholders.
As we close out this letter, we reiterate how pleased we
are that our transformation strategy is working, but we
are still at the beginning of this journey. GameStop’s
rich heritage of change gives us unique knowledge and
experience to continue evolving, and our future is full
of new opportunities to grow. On behalf of our board
of directors, executive leadership team and 40,000
associates around the world, we thank you for your
continued support of GameStop.
Daniel A. DeMatteo
Executive Chairman
J. Paul Raines
Chief Executive Ocer
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(From Left to Right) Jerome L. Davis /
Kathy P. Vrabeck / R. Richard Fontaine /
Thomas N. Kelly / Daniel A. DeMatteo /
J. Paul Raines / Lawrence S. Zilavy /
Stephanie M. Shern / Gerald R. Szczepanski /
Steven R. Koonin / Shane S. Kim
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2015 ANNUAL REPORT