NINTENDO EMPLOYEES DONATE 4 TONS OF FOOD TO NORTHWEST HARVEST
With Food Donations Down in Puget Sound Area, Nintendo Rallies to Help
REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 23, 2004 - Nintendo of America employees opened their cupboards, wallets and hearts to donate 4 tons of food to Northwest Harvest on Tuesday. The massive donation ensures that those who need food the most will have it on their tables for Thanksgiving. With video game icon Mario™ on hand, the 4 tons of food were loaded into a Northwest Harvest truck to be delivered to some of the 300 food banks the statewide organization supplies.
"Northwest Harvest tells us that food donations in the area are down 38 percent from last year, so our employees even went so far as to hold competitions to see which division could collect the most food," said Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing & corporate affairs. "During the past few weeks, it's become commonplace to see employees arrive at work with trunks loaded with pounds of pasta, huge sacks of pancake mix and so many cans of vegetables they can't carry them all."
The more than 800 employees at Nintendo's Redmond offices each donated an average of 10 pounds of food. The company also made a $5,000 donation to Northwest Harvest. For more information about Northwest Harvest, visit www.northwestharvest.org.
The worldwide leader and innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its popular home and portable video game systems. Each year, hundreds of all-new titles for the best-selling Game Boy® Advance, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems extend Nintendo's vast game library and continue the tradition of delivering a rich, diverse mix of quality video games for players of all ages. Since the release of its first home video game system in 1983, Nintendo has sold more than 1.9 billion video games and more than 170 million hardware units globally, creating enduring industry icons such as Mario™ and Donkey Kong® and launching popular culture franchise phenomena such as Metroid®, Zelda™ and Pokémon®. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere.
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