{"id":4593,"date":"2008-07-04T20:24:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T03:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4593"},"modified":"2013-03-13T20:34:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T03:34:30","slug":"the-gamesman-is-acquired-by-gamestop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/the-gamesman-is-acquired-by-gamestop\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamesman Acquired by GameStop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6211\" alt=\"The Gamesman-S2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/The-Gamesman-S2.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"293\" \/>JULY 4, 2008 \u2022 New Zealand&#8217;s independent The Gamesman video game retail chain is being acquired by GameStop. Adding The Gamesman&#8217;s eight locations brings GameStop&#8217;s holding in the country to 38 stores.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: GameStop continues with its steady acquisition of retailers in Europe and Oceania. The added market share should enhance the company&#8217;s dominance in selling video games. The question remains whether GameStop can be as successful in expanding into new markets on its own where it cannot buy established dealers.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 4, 2008 \u2022 New Zealand&#8217;s independent The Gamesman video game retail chain is being acquired by GameStop. Adding The Gamesman&#8217;s eight locations brings GameStop&#8217;s holding in the country to 38 stores. Impact: GameStop continues with its steady acquisition of retailers in Europe and Oceania. The added market share should enhance the company&#8217;s dominance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6214,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions\/6214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}