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Vintage Stock is an American entertainment retailer. The company, headquartered in Joplin, Missouri, operates 70 retail stores throughout the United States.Retail stores operate primarily under the Vintage Stock name, as well as the Movie Trading Company/ Movie Trading Co. name (MTC stores are the Dallas, Texas, division of Vintage Stock, formerly owned by Blockbuster) [1] and the V-Stock name ...
Blockbuster [5] or Blockbuster Video was an American multimedia brand which was founded by David Cook in 1985 as a single home video rental shop, but later became a public store chain featuring video game rentals, DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater. [6] The company expanded internationally throughout the 1990s.
In April 1993, Blockbuster Video invested $10.3 million (~$19.6 million in 2023) into Discovery Zone to purchase 20% of the company with an option to increase its stake to 50.1 percent in June 1994. [5] In June 1993, Discovery Zone went public on the NASDAQ exchange, raising $55 million (~$105 million in 2023) on the IPO. The stock rose 61% in ...
The agency, which had the entire Blockbuster LLC account until early 1994, came up with the slogan "Make It a Blockbuster Night". [ 1 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] May 21, 2003 was declared “Bob Bernstein Day” by the mayor of Kansas City .
Hollywood Video was the target of a hostile takeover attempt, initially announced at the end of December 2004 by competitor Blockbuster Video. Blockbuster announced an exchange offer of $14.50 per share ($11.50 cash and $3.00 in Blockbuster shares).
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This included Nintendo allowing Blockbuster to rent and sell a number of games made exclusive to the rental company's stores. [23] The video game rental market continued to grow, and by 2008, Blockbuster was earning over $200 million in annual revenue from video game rentals. [ 13 ]
B. Dalton Bookseller was an American retail bookstore chain founded in 1966 by Bruce Dayton, a member of the same family that operated the Dayton's department store chain. [1]