Deadline January 31, 2025: GameStop closes in Germany, sales begin 248 comments
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The American group GameStop, which sells video games, consoles, accessories and related products in its stores, will close all its branches in Germany on January 31, 2025. This is what Games Wirtschaft reported, citing people close to it. of the file. There is no official statement yet.
According to information from summer 2024, around 500 affected employees across Germany were informed on Thursday. Suppliers have also already been informed.
A farewell in several installments
The closure of GameStop branches in Germany was a staggered end. As of 2023, the group has sold more than half of the 200 agencies that the company then had.
This number is also decreasing internationally: while there were 5,700 stores in 14 countries in 2019, at the start of 2024 there were just under 4,200 in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, France and Germany.
Retired in Europe
GameStop currently operates 69 branches in this country and a temporary pop-up store in Bikini Berlin. The German headquarters in Tannheim, Baden-Württemberg, also serves as the European headquarters.
After the group closed its branches in Austria in 2023 and sold the branches in Switzerland and Italy to Cidiverte (Gamelife) of Italy in 2022 and last week respectively, from February 2025, the only remaining European location is the France.
Updated November 30, 2024 at 10:37 a.m.
GameStop or the GameStop account has now confirmed the closure of all German branches at the end of January 2025 with a brief “yes” to a user’s question on Instagram.
Topics: Gaming Economics Source: Gaming Economics
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