Bed, Bath and Beyond 2007 Annual Report Download - page 4

CORPORATE PROFILE
Founded in 1971, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is a chain of retail stores that sell a wide assortment of merchandise principally
including domestics merchandise and home furnishings as well as food, giftware, health and beauty care items and infant and
toddler merchandise. The Company’s stores combine superior service and a broad selection of items at everyday low prices.
Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. are traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol BBBY and are included in the
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and the NASDAQ-100 Index. The Company is counted among the Fortune 500 and the Forbes 2000.
PLEASE VOTE YOUR PROXY!
ELECTRONIC VOTING SAVES YOUR COMPANY MONEY
For the last few years, many of our shareholders have saved the Company money by voting their proxies via internet or tele-
phone, rather than by return mail. This year, we again encourage all of our shareholders to take advantage of electronic voting.
Most Bed Bath & Beyond shareholders hold their shares through a stockbroker, bank or other nominee rather than directly in
their own name. If you hold your shares in one of these ways, you are considered a beneficial owner. Your broker or nominee has
enclosed a voting instruction form for you to use in directing them in how to vote your shares. Most institutions make internet or
telephone voting options available to their beneficial owners, so please see the voting instruction form for specific information.
If your shares are registered directly in your name with Bed Bath & Beyond’s transfer agent, you are considered the shareholder
of record with respect to those shares, and these proxy materials are being sent directly to you. If you hold restricted stock under
the Company’s 2004 Incentive Compensation Plan, you are also considered the shareholder of record with respect to those shares.
As the shareholder of record, you have the right to vote by proxy. We encourage our registered shareholders to vote:
By internet - www.proxyvote.com or
By touch-tone phone - 1-800-690-6903
Have your proxy card in hand when you access the website or call the toll-free number. Then you can follow the directions
provided.
BED BATH& BEYOND ANNUAL REPORT 2007
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To be able to do so much in difficult times, and to maintain focus on our customer while doing it, is a credit to our Company
and the 39,000 associates who breathe life into Bed Bath & Beyond, Christmas Tree Shops, Harmon/Harmon Face Values and
buybuy BABY every day. Through their efforts, we believe we will look back at 2008 as a time in which our Company relied on
its strengths to improve its relative position in the marketplace. Among those strengths are also the relationships the Company
enjoys with its many vendors and business partners, and we continue to be grateful for their contributions to our ongoing
growth and success.
Thank you for your continued support of our Company, and we look forward to reporting to you in a year’s time regarding
the continued strengthening of our Company in the long-term interests of our shareholders through attention to the everyday
interests of our customers.
WARREN EISENBERG LEONARD FEINSTEIN STEVEN H. TEMARES
Co-Chairman Co-Chairman Chief Executive Officer
and Director and Director and Director
June 4, 2008
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