Bed, Bath and Beyond 2014 Annual Report Download - page 6

CORPORATE PROFILE
Founded in 1971, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries is a retailer which operates under the names of Bed Bath & Beyond,
Christmas Tree Shops, Christmas Tree Shops andThat! or andThat!, Harmon or Harmon Face Values, buybuy BABY and World
Market, Cost Plus World Market or Cost Plus. The Company also operates Linen Holdings, a provider of a variety of textile
products, amenities and other goods to institutional customers in the hospitality, cruise line, healthcare and other industries.
Additionally, the Company is a partner in a joint venture which operates five retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath
& Beyond.
The Company sells a wide assortment of domestics merchandise and home furnishings. Domestics merchandise includes
categories such as bed linens and related items, bath items and kitchen textiles. Home furnishings include categories such as
kitchen and tabletop items, fine tabletop, basic housewares, general home furnishings, consumables and certain juvenile
products. Customers can purchase products from the Company either in-store, online or through a mobile device. The
Company has the developing ability to have customer purchases picked up in-store or shipped direct to the customer from
the Company’s distribution facilities, stores or vendors.
The Company strives to do more for and with its customers by: offering an extensive breadth, depth and differentiated
assortment of merchandise at the right value; presenting merchandise in a distinctive manner designed to maximize
customer convenience and reinforce customer perception of a wide selection; and providing excellent customer service,
including new ideas and solutions. The Company continues to grow, differentiate and leverage its assortment across all
channels, concepts and countries in which it operates, to better engage with its customers wherever, whenever and however
they express their life interests and travel through their life stages. Through its growing analytic capabilities and
omnichannel marketing approaches, the Company strives to more efficiently and effectively understand and satisfy its
customers’ needs. The Company is also enhancing its ability to achieve this objective through an ongoing commitment to
world class information and interactive technology, comprehensive analytics and targeted marketing and communications.
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 and Global 1200 Indices 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 several years, many of our shareholders have saved the Company money by voting their proxies via internet or
telephone, 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 2012 Incentive Compensation Plan (formerly known as the 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 2014 ANNUAL REPORT
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