Friday, March 16, 2012

Game taken back to the brink as creditors shun rescue plan

1:51 PM | Posted by ProJ | | Edit Post

video game company must obtain new financial support later this month to avoid a painful restructuring

game game specialist is on the brink of collapse on Friday after a bailout plan proposed by the private sector capital firm OpCapita seemed to have been given the coldness of lenders that are due to more 100 billion pounds.

earlier this week, OpCapita, the turnaround specialist who recently bought the chain Comet Electricals, submitted a proposal for retail banks - led by state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland - to take in charge of debt and settle accounts with suppliers who are owed 40 million pounds.

The plan proposes a path back to the retailer, officially warned investors earlier this week when he was about to administration. A spokesman for RBS, which is due £ 45m, said the discussions with all parties continued, but sources suggest further discussions have taken place even if time is short.

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need to quickly get new donors so you can pay the bill for quarterly rental, from March 25 and avoid a painful restructuring that is likely to cause significant job losses in the group, which has about 6,000 employees in the UK.

The situation is complex because a number of banks are involved in rescue talks with Barclays, HSBC and La Caixa all understood to be owed about 30 million pounds each. Another banking source also suggested that the OpCapita agreement was still a viable option.
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  • crisis was launched earlier this year, when lenders worried reduces retail lending facilities. This means that the management team, led by chief executive Ian Shepherd, was forced to ask suppliers for discounts. But the major industry players such as Electronic Arts and Nintendo refused to leave the store without stock new titles like Mass Effect Mario Party 3 and 9.
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came to a low point for the industry which has suffered declining sales for the last three years due to the lack of a killer console again to whet the appetite of consumers . Sales of physical games, cash decreased 7% to 1.4 billion pounds last year. And HMV, and national music chain latest DVD on the main street, was beaten by the increase in Internet sales, downloads and competition from supermarkets, the game is that players with the man cut the environment. Industry, Trade UKIE body recognizes almost £ 680 000 000 was spent on downloads of games last year.

"People buy more games, but they are looking increasingly to digital methods of buying," said Dan Wood UKIE, pointing to games like Angry Birds, which has been downloaded 500 million times.



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