Dallas Business Journal

GameStop taps former Playboy executive

August 06, 2009

John Barrett, director of research at the Dallas market-research firm Parks Associates, compares GameStop with another Dallas firm, Blockbuster Inc., which rents video games and movies both online and in bricks-and-mortar stores.

From the article, "GameStop taps former Playboy executive" by Jeff Bounds

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