Investor Presentaiton
Reactive Not Proactive to Shareholder Concerns
Over the last two years, many of the significant changes from the Board came after shareholder pressure
Date of demand
GameStop response
Shareholder(s)
Shareholder demand
Date of response
May 16, 2018
Tiger Management
Sell the noncore Tech Brands division
January 16, 2019
Spring Mobile was sold for $700 million
February 12, 2019
Hestia
Implement significant SG&A cost savings
April 2, 2019
Announced plan to reduce SG&A by $100
million
February 12, 2019
Hestia
Initiate tender offer to repurchase
undervalued shares
June 10, 2019
March 13, 2019
Permit and Hestia
Add new directors with the ability to lead a
turnaround effort
April 24, 2019
July 22, 2019
Permit and Hestia
Sell the 22-seat luxury Bombardier CL-604
private jet
December 11, 2019
August 16, 2019
Scion Asset Management
Utilize the remaining $237.6mm share
buyback authorization
December 11, 2019
September 12, 2019
Permit and Hestia
Individual members of the Board should
personally purchase shares
Late September 2019
Announced tender offer of up to 12 million
shares
Appointment of Raul Fernandez and Liz Dunn
to the Board of Directors
Reported the jet as an asset held for sale in
Q3 2019 10-Q
Repurchased 22.6 million shares at an
average price of $5.11
Five Directors purchased almost 96,268
shares, at a total value of $483,286
restore
GameStop
Source: Press releases, March 12, 2020 Investor Group letter to GameStop Board of Directors.
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