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MINNEAPOLIS, November 11, 2009 – Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) announced today that Robert A. Willett, 63, CEO of Best Buy International, will retire effective Dec. 31, 2009. The company does not plan to name a successor to the specific role of International CEO. Brian J. Dunn, Chief Executive of Best Buy Co., Inc., is working with Willett on a smooth transition. The company has strong local leaders and teams in every country in which it operates and is confident in their abilities. Best Buy’s evolving global growth strategy creates opportunities to approach the work in new ways. The company remains fully committed to its global growth strategy, and it continues to be one of the company’s four strategic priorities.
MINNEAPOLIS, November 11, 2009 – New technologies are emerging daily to help people plan, monitor, and enhance their health and fitness activities. Yet finding the ways and the time to stay fit and motivated can seem more complicated than ever before. Starting today, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) customers in select markets from Washington, DC to Denver can turn to the nation’s largest consumer electronics retailer for help in satisfying their health and fitness equipment and management needs.
MINNEAPOLIS, October 8, 2009 – Whether it’s the latest eReader, the world’s smartest pen or the next generation of brain games, “must have “ tech gadgets are at the top of everyone’s holiday entertainment wish list. That’s why Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY), the nation’s largest consumer electronics retailer, has launched a Gadgets and eReaders collection spanning a wide array of products for customers to entertain their minds. Beginning Sunday, Oct. 11, customers can see, play and interact with these devices in a new shopping space launching at Best Buy stores nationwide.
MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, Minn. – Best Buy and the Minnesota Twins today announced a new seven-year partnership that includes a founding partner designation for Target Field, the new world-class home of the Twins opening in April 2010.
MINNEAPOLIS, June 24, 2009 -- Brian J. Dunn, age 49, officially became the chief executive officer of Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) at the company’s annual meeting of shareholders, held at the Best Buy corporate campus this morning. Dunn, a 24-year veteran of the company, had been the president and chief operating officer of the leading consumer electronics retailer.
MINNEAPOLIS, June 5, 2009 – Best Buy today announced plans to open 13 new U.S. Best Buy stores in the second fiscal quarter 2010, including its first store in Wyoming and second in Alaska.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 26, 2009 – Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY), today announced executive changes designed to strengthen its information technology team worldwide and enhance management of its expanding international operations.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 15, 2009 – Best Buy today announced the grand opening of eight new U.S. Best Buy stores for the first fiscal quarter 2010. The new stores are set to open this month and next in the following cities:
MINNEAPOLIS, Mar. 26, 2009 -- Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) today reported net earnings of $570 million, or $1.35 per diluted share, for its fiscal fourth quarter ended on Feb. 28, 2009. The leading consumer electronic retailer’s net earnings declined by 23 percent compared with $737 million, or $1.71 per diluted share, for the prior-year period.
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) now offers its electronics recycling program at all of its 1,006 stores nationwide. Consumers can bring up to two (2) units per day, per household, for recycling at any U.S. Best Buy store.
