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ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT – REGISTRATION DOCUMENT
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Sums deposited in the employee savings plan may be invested, at each employee's option; (1) in a fund invested
exclusively in money-market instruments; or (2) in diversified mutual funds (international equities and bonds), or (3) in a
solidarity fund, as per August 4, 2008 French law.
10. CAPITAL PROJECTS – RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Information concerning the Group is disclosed in the section “General information – capital projects” of this report. The
Group does not carry out fundamental research.
11. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
For subsequent event information, refer to Note 27 to the Consolidated Financial Statements on page 90 of the present
document.
12. COMPANY PROSPECTS
For Fiscal Year 2012/2013, Atari’s strategy will again be driven by four priorities:
- To build and monetize Atari’s digital games: Atari’s will continue to expend on the fast growing digital market
segment, with a specific focus on mobile games as a core business as well as on online games on cross
platform initiatives.
- To leverage Atari’s brand and IP portfolio through licensing and strategic partnerships.
- To remaining opportunistic on the retail market to promote Atari’s IP’s: Atari will opportunistically explore
commercial partnerships in order to derive maximum benefit from its large portfolio of intellectual properties, its
brand and all of its assets.
- To continue to seek profitability improvement: Atari will again follow a strict investment and cost control
discipline,
Overall the Company expects flat to continued improvement in Current Operating Income for the full year 2012/2013.
Atari expects to continue launching new mobile and online games in FY 2012/2013 based upon its highly popular and
world renowned game brands. Announcements of such titles are done at the time of release.