The United Kingdom’s GAME Group PLC, a corporate entity that has roots in over 800 establishments in 9 different areas located in Europe and Australia, announced their yearly marketing report today. According to the company the GAME Group has enjoyed a “ continued strong sales performance” since the last time it issued an update on it’s financial earnings and continues to expect increased performance from now until the 31st of January. The analysis performed by the GAME Group has lead to expectations of earnings to increase over current marking earnings and which will result in a sum no less then seventy million pounds. This forecast will represent a substantial increase in the GAME Group’s earnings as, according to the last marketing report issued by the group, the earnings accumulated by January 31st of 2007 were roughly twenty-nine million pounds.

In addition the GAME Group has reported of costs upwards of roughly four million pounds due to the needs imposed on them as a result of an inquiry imposed on them by the Competition Commission. The GAME Group became the focus of the inquiry in August 07 when the GAME Group attempted to acquire Games Station Limited which, at the time of this writing, has been “provisionally cleared’ by the Competition Commission. The acquisition of Game Station Limited’s corporate assets themselves will result in another three million pounds due to the need to successfully combine the companies to ensure continued smooth operation in the months and years to come.

The GAME Group also stated that it is currently preparing a more complete report regarding it’s six week holiday earning period, which official ends on January the twelfth, after which the report will be made available on the GAME Group’s website on Tuesday the fifteenth of January.