Some letters sent to GameStop employees that have surfaced on the Internet say that the company is going through a collective dismissal and closing of all of its shops. They will try to transfer some stores to another retailer, so some of the jobs can be kept. No official information has been released, though. Here are the letters. The first one is a formal letter announcing the collective dismissal to the employees. The second letter is more personal and will be translated (roughly) below.
Consider Game has 266 stores in Spain, while GameStop has a little more than 100.
MAIL SENT IN THE NAME OF ANTONIO GONZALEZ (Managing Director Gamestop Iberia)
To all the workers,
Gamestop has taken the hard decision of leaving the spanish market.
After nine years supporting and investing in Spain in order to build a profitable business and despite all of your efforts, we couldn't make it.
Right now we are working on the posibility of transfering a group of stores to another retailer, thereby achieving that the jobs of the employees of this shops can be kept.
In the next days you'll recieve more information on the process, and I ask you that, within the delicate situation this assumes, among all get that the control of the business and the product be an added value to use in the negotiation of the trespassing of some of your stores.
I attach the formal communication letter of the start of the process, and I'm yours to clear up your doubts.
Regards,
Antonio Gonzalez
Manager Director
Gamespot Iberia.
Consider Game has 266 stores in Spain, while GameStop has a little more than 100.