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Robert Plaza

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Navarre Corporation (NAVR) publishes and distributes a broad range of proprietary and non-proprietary home entertainment and multimedia products, including personal computer software, video titles, and interactive games. The company's customers include a wide spectrum of national and regional retailers. This customer base includes mass merchants, specialty stores, wholesalers, and e-tailers. The company operates a business-to-business web site, navarre.com, providing product fulfillment to both traditional and e-commerce retailers. Navarre's business is divided into two business segments: distribution and publishing. Its distribution business is operated through Navarre Corporation. This segment distributes non-proprietary PC software, video games, and DVD Video. It focuses on providing retailers and publishers with high-quality services for broad, efficient distribution, including vendor-managed inventory, electronic data interchange services, fulfillment services, cross docking, and assumed receipt, as well as a variety of retailer-oriented marketing services. Its publishing business manages, owns, or holds exclusive licensing rights of PC software and video game content through its majority-owned subsidiary, Encore Software, Inc. BCI Eclipse, the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, manages, owns, or holds exclusive licensing rights of DVD audio, DVD, and VHS video content. The publishing business licenses, packages, markets, and sells these products to third-party distributors, directly to retailers, as well as to Navarre's distribution business.

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