BUYERS FACTFILE
GAMES RETAIL GUIDE
MCV’s annual High Street directory provides an overview of every buying team for each key UK video games retailer, as well as up-to-date store counts, company profiles and contact details
GAME AND GAMESTATION
Number of UK stores: 622 (371 GAME, 241 Gamestation and 10 GAME concession stores)
Address: GAME Stores Group, Unity House, Telford Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6YJ
Websites:
www.gamegroup.plc.uk www.game.co.uk www.gamestation.co.uk www.gameplay.co.uk
Contact number: 01256 784000
GAME Group views online as its key growth area, and has launched a new Gamestation site this year
THE UK’S leading specialist games retailer has had a tough year, with sales falling by 9.8 per cent for its last financial year. But the firm has a plan – one that was outlined in detail in February this year – to grow its digital and online business. Already sales from digital product has grown 28 per cent
KEY PERSONNEL
year-on-year, and GAME has plans to be more active with its loyalty card customers, all 17.3m of them. GAME also collected the
MCV Award for specialist retailer in April. There’s been a few changes at the group over the last year, namely the recent news that UK chief Martyn Gibbs is to depart
and be replaced by former Vodafone man Tom Devine. In the buying team Charlotte Knight has been promoted from head of format buying to head of category management, while former head of buying for third-party Kathryn Jarvis has moved to the retailer’s Sydney office as commercial manager.
2011
A number of new account managers and category managers have joined, including former Sainsbury’s man Nick Arran. Mandip Bhachoo and Alison Fraser are key account managers, while Ross Thompson has the role of senior category manager for Microsoft, PC and peripherals.
Charlotte Knight Head of Category Management
18 July 8th 2011
Nick Arran Senior Account Manager
Mandip Bhachoo Alison Fraser Key Account Manager Key Account Manager
Lorna Simpson Account Manager
Ross Thompson Senior Category Manager (Microsoft, PC and peripherals)
Rachel Dearsley Category Manager (Sony)
Iain Johnson Category Manager (Nintendo)
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