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| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 12/12/2003 | GAME & NINTENDO official magazine partner with exclusive playable disc In stores from today, Friday 12th December, the latest issue of Nintendo Official Magazine UK (NOM UK) is proving to be a big hit with fans of Nintendo, Pokémon and innovative, new GameCube games. |
| 21/11/2003 | GAME seek new stores in France for scoregame GAME, Europe’s leading video games retailer, is starting the hunt for a significant number of new retail sites in France to expand its French business ScoreGAME. |
| 12/11/2003 | GAME “honoured and delighted” to receive first Business Oscar The passionate focus on excellent customer service at The GAME Group Plc was praised last night at the National Business Awards. The company was presented with the prestigious ‘Customer Focus Award’ in London during the ceremony and gala dinner. |
| 12/11/2003 | GAME continues London expansion GAME, Europe’s leading video games chain, will open its first City of London store on Thursday 13th November at 86 Cheapside. |
| 07/11/2003 | Games promoted directly to women - for the first time The first nationwide marketing campaign to promote video games specifically to women has been unveiled by GAME, Europe’s leading specialist video games chain – with the Company assigning around 20% of its UK Christmas marketing spend on the campaign. |
| 31/10/2003 | ITV Game Stars goes live as ExCeL sets site on biggest ever consumer games event The collaboration of a number of major video and computer games industry organisations and media owners is announced today, with the news that Game Stars Live, a new public event targeting around 100,000 consumers, is to be held in London at ExCeL. |
| 30/10/2003 | GAME’s 24 hour online bonanza returns for Halloween GAME will launch another online 24 hour ‘stock ticker’ promotion this week to celebrate Halloween, it is announced today. |
| 10/10/2003 | 2,000 new Christmas jobs at GAME GAME, the UK’s largest chain of video games stores, is recruiting over 2,000 temporary staff for the Christmas period – increasing its workforce by some 50% – following a massive escalation in competition between electronics giants Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. |
| 03/10/2003 | GAME shortlisted for "Business Oscars" |
| 23/09/2003 | THE GAME GROUP PLC - Interim Results for the six months ended 31 July 2003 |
| 12/09/2003 | Pro Evolution Soccer 3: The League Konami of Europe, GAME and Dennis Publishing expand hugely successful pre-release partnership in run up to November launch |
| 12/09/2003 | GAME signs up its first promotions agency GAME has signed an exclusive agreement with Parallel Promotions to be its retained agency for all promotional third party opportunities. |
| 02/09/2003 | GAME opens in Omagh GAME, Europe's leading specialist computer software and video game retailer opens in Omagh on Saturday 6 September. |
| 22/08/2003 | GAME heads out of town GAME’s second out of town store will open in the first week of September 2003, on the Gallions Reach shopping park in Beckton, East London. |
| 15/08/2003 | Comic book fan? Judge for yourself….. A rare special edition Judge Dredd comic strip has been penned exclusively for GAME.uk.com customers, to promote the new Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death computer game release, due out in September. |
| 08/08/2003 | GAME to open in revitalised Bullring GAME is today announcing an addition to its 340+ store portfolio in the UK & Eire – GAME in Bullring, Birmingham will open at the unveiling of the centre in September. |
| 08/08/2003 | GAME move into Neighbourhood stores GAME is significantly expanding its trial of a new concept of ‘Neighbourhood’ stores designed to cater for customers locally in urban residential areas. |
| 29/07/2003 | Internet shopping day roaring success for GAME GAME.uk.com today announces that the 24x7 campaign to mark Internet Shopping Day on 24 July 2003 was a staggering success for the on-line retailer. |
| 14/07/2003 | Game returns to Sheffield GAME, Europe’s leading specialist retailer of video games and computer software is opening a new look store in Sheffield city centre on Friday 18th July, after a four year absence. |
| 11/07/2003 | GAME Executive appointed trustee of ESC Lisa Morgan, Deputy Chief Executive Designate of GAME is today appointed as a Trustee of the games industry charity, The Entertainment Software Charity (ESC). |
| 03/07/2003 | AGM Trading Statement At the Annual General Meeting, held today, the Chairman Peter Lewis gave the following update to shareholders... |
| 02/07/2003 | GAME to open first outlet store Specialist video game retailer GAME is to launch the first concept GAME Outlet store at Freeport Outlet Village near Castleford this weekend. |
| 27/06/2003 | Game host Charity Ball in aid of ESC GAME will host its first industry Charity Ball this year with all proceeds going to the Entertainment Software Charity (esc), it is announced today. |
| 25/06/2003 | Norfolk's gardeners most obsessive in the UK Garden envy is so strong in Norfolk that hundreds of obsessed gardeners are now secretly using their home computers to ensure their blooms will grow to be the best. |
| 13/06/2003 | GAME Aims to Double Site Traffic with TradeDoubler GAME, Europe’s leading specialist retailer of video games and computer software has joined forces with TradeDoubler on a new affiliate scheme named ‘Get Into GAME Partnership Programme’. |
| 30/04/2003 | Record profits - unaudited preliminary results for the year ended 31 January 2003 The strength of GAME’s position in its markets can be measured by this achievement of record sales, record profits and record cash in the bank of £37.4m in a difficult year for UK retailers. |
| 28/03/2003 | GAME to deploy Tiscali IP-VPN Retail Solution across 330+ stores Tiscali Business Services UK, a subsidiary of Tiscali, the Internet communications company, today announces it will supply a broadband enabled IP-VPN (Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network) solution to GAME, Europe’s largest specialist retailer of computer software and video games. |
| 28/02/2003 | Martin Long to take over as Chief Executive from John Steinbrecher in February 2004 The Game Group plc (“Game”), Europe’s largest retailer of video games, announces that last November’s decision by the High Court to maintain the Services Agreement between Game and EBI has today been upheld by the Court of Appeal. |
| 10/01/2003 | Christmas trading statement - record sales and profits expected The GAME Group PLC ('GAME') today announces like for like sales growth of 3.8% and overall sales growth of 7.5% for the 5 week period ending 4th January 2003 in our core UK market. |
