{"id":24931,"date":"2012-10-11T18:26:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T08:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=24931"},"modified":"2012-10-11T18:26:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T08:26:38","slug":"thq-appoints-all-interactive-entertainment-as-distributor-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=24931","title":{"rendered":"THQ APPOINTS ALL INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT AS DISTRIBUTOR IN AUSTRALIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA<\/strong>, Oct. 11, 2012 &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thq.com\/us\/\">THQ Inc.<\/a> (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced that the company has signed a new distribution agreement with All Interactive Entertainment (AIE), a subsidiary of All Interactive Distribution (AID).\u00a0 Through this agreement, AIE will distribute THQ\u2019s product line through its established retailer channel in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Curran, THQ\u2019s EVP, Global Publishing, said, \u201cThe evolution of our distribution model in the Asia Pacific region will allow us to increase our reach with a lower cost model.\u00a0 AIE is a trusted business partner with whom we have worked with for many years as our distributor in New Zealand. We believe the company will benefit from AIE\u2019s backing and comprehensive distribution network across Australia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to broaden our relationship with a top publisher such as THQ,\u201d said Robert Kingston, Director of AIE.\u00a0 \u201cWe look forward to bringing THQ\u2019s highly-anticipated new video game releases and existing game portfolio to our retail network in the territory.\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a part of the new distribution strategy, THQ will close its publishing office in Melbourne in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, Oct. 11, 2012 &#8212; THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced that the company has signed a new distribution agreement with All Interactive Entertainment (AIE), a subsidiary of All Interactive Distribution (AID).\u00a0 Through this agreement, AIE will distribute THQ\u2019s product line through its established retailer channel in Australia. Ian Curran, THQ\u2019s EVP, Global Publishing,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=24931\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24936,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24931\/revisions\/24936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}