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GAME’S UK ASSETS have been bought by Baker Acquisitions, a move announced by PwC, administrator to The Game Group plc, and OpCapita LLP, a private investment firm.
Baker Acquisitions will acquire the UK business out of administration and will provide it with the capital it needs to trade on a normalised basis. Baker will acquire all 333 UK stores that have remained open during the period of administration, which means the jobs of nearly 3200 GAME employees, who will transfer to Baker, have been safeguarded.
However, none of the Irish stores have been acquired, which means that Irish staff will remain redundant from their jobs with the firm.
Baker Acquisitions will also seek to re-employ a small number of staff who previously worked at GAME’s head office in the UK but who received redundancy notices last week. There are no plans for any further store closures.
James Daly, District Development Manager with Game in Ireland and store manager of the Mahon Point store, told TheJournal.ie that staff are continuing their sit-ins. He said that the news about the UK stores came as no surprise to them.
“There is really not much change,” he said of the situation in Ireland.
Stores are still occupied around the country; spirits are high around the stores. The support we have gotten from everybody has kept us going. [We] are humbled by the support – people are knocking on the store windows and dropping in food.
Game managers met with PwC representatives on Friday morning, but have not heard from the company since then.
Daly described them as “left in limbo”. The meeting on Friday was to confirm the Irish Game staff’s position on the situation. Daly said:
If PwC are not going to talk to us then we will go and talk to the Minister [for Social Protection, Joan Burton] and see where we can go from there. It is sad that it is now week two, where people are sitting in stores waiting for somebody to do the right thing whereas we know legally they don’t have to [give redundancy]. It is really disappointing. There is an awful lot of people over there not happy.
“We never set out to be doing this but this is the position we are actually forced into,” concluded Daly. “It is now down to peoples’s idea of fairness – this by anyone’s standard is not fair. We’re here for the long haul.”
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You can go studs up into the chest to win the ball these days.. who knew ..
@Brian: I’m a Liverpool fan and it wasn’t a penalty
@Mick Joe: I’m pretty sure I’ve seen plenty of penalties given for less!
@Mick Joe: If that challenge is made anywhere else on the pitch its a free kick 10 times out of 10.. It was a penalty.
@Brian: Absolutely disgraceful from the ref and VAR. Anywhere else on the pitch,at any moment during the game,that’s a clear foul and a booking for a reckless challenge. Because it’s with seconds to go and in the penalty area,officials are afraid to be ‘controversial’ City goal allowed to stand despite McAllister being blocked,van Dijk goal ruled out in Carabao Cup Final. Inconsistency is shocking.
@Mick Joe: I’m a Liverpool fan and that’s a peno all day.
@James Rowan: two wrongs don’t make a right
@Mick Joe: I’m a Liverpool fan and it was a penalty
@Mick Joe: Would it have been a free kick and yellow card anywhere else on the pitch?
@Brian: Exactly,and any earlier in the game.
@Mick Joe: yes it was…that happens anywhere else on the pitch and it’s a foul…VAR bottled it.
@Brian: spot on
@Mick Joe: im a united fan and it pains me to say it, but i reckon it was a pen. High legs is still high legs even if doku tried to pull out.
@Brian: Liverpool fans always moaning. Change the record. If Diaz was any use he’d have the match ball and you wouldn’t be crying.
@marklars81: Didn’t hear any moaning last week when the ref messed up and Liverpool got a late winner against Forrest.
@marklars81: nobody is crying lad.. you seem more upset than me . Lol. It was an observation of an incident in the biggest match of the season so far.. that alright with ya ? Lol
@Denis Ryan: Forrest? Oh,it’s Mr Gump again,showing his intelligence
@Mick Joe:
Know your not…your a troll
Liverpool have been denied stonewall penalties in games v City and Arsenal. Not to mention the perfect goal chalked off in the Spurs game. How many more can be dismissed?
Hate watching these games as a man u fan. Entertaining box to box. Attacking football at its best. Great game. Title race blown wide open. Liverpool unlucky had city on the ropes. Arsenal City on 31st has a even bigger feel now.
City luckly with draw as midfield overrun in the second half. Silva and KDB poor today due to Liverpool midfield play. Ake what a mistake. City really needed a win today so the title is probably gone, but still a surprise might happen.
@did you every wonder: city are still well in this race,whatever the result between city and arsenal just throws another twist,as a pool fan I’m enjoying it,but I have me fingers chewed up to the knuckle.
Liverpool have great chance of league. City Arsenal game will hopefully be a draw also. City are under pressure for something in that now. City’s next few games are tough but their final five games are all guaranteed wins for them on paper unlike Liverpool and Arsenal who have some tricky away games in theirs. Arsenal still have united wolves Brighton Tottenham all away also. More twists to come
We were robbed!
3 teams still in it and still some detractors are saying ‘dull stuff’ in contrast to say Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1…you know, Bayern (not this year) Real/Barca/PSG.I want Liverpool to win, if not them Arsenal, and you know what that’ll be the 6th different team in 10/11 years that has won the PL..say to Bayern/PSG et al.
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