Best Buy 2004 Annual Report Download - page 25

General Information
Shareholders may obtain a copy of the most
recent quarter’s financial results by visiting our
corporate Web site, www.BestBuy.com.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, select
“For Our Investors” and then “SEC Filings.”
A Web-based e-mail notification system also
is available under “E-mail Alerts” to alert
subscribers to new financial releases, SEC
filings, upcoming events and other
significant postings.
You also may visit our Web site,
www.BestBuy.com, to obtain product infor-
mation, company background information,
current news and financial information.
Or, write to:
Best Buy Co., Inc.
Investor Relations Department
7601 Penn Avenue South
Richfield, MN 55423-3645
Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
General Counsel
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.
Independent Auditors
Ernst & Young LLP
Annual Shareholders’ Meeting
June 24, 2004, at 10 a.m. (CDT)
Best Buy Corporate Campus - Theater
7601 Penn Avenue South
Richfield, MN 55423-3645
If you have a proposal for a future meeting,
please send it to the Investor Relations
Department at our corporate campus in
Richfield. The deadline for proposals to be
considered at the 2005 regular meeting of
shareholders is Jan. 18, 2005.
Transfer Agent
For questions regarding your stock certificates
—such as lost certificates, name changes and
transfers of ownership—please contact our
transfer agent:
EquiServe Trust Company, N.A.
P.O. Box 43069, Providence, RI 02940-3069
Phone: [phone]
Hearing impaired: [phone]
or [phone]
www.equiserve.com
Dividend Policy
Best Buy in fiscal 2004 initiated a quarterly
cash dividend to holders of common shares.
The quarterly rate was 10 cents per common
share at the end of fiscal 2004.
Financial Releases for Fiscal 2005
Revenue Earnings
First quarter 06/03/2004 06/16/2004
Second quarter 09/02/2004 09/15/2004
Third quarter 12/02/2004 12/15/2004
December 01/06/2005 NA
Fourth quarter 03/03/2005 03/30/2005
Conference calls normally are scheduled
at 10 a.m., eastern time, for quarterly
earnings and for December revenue
releases. All dates are subject to change
without notice.
Shareholders at a Glance
As of February 28, 2004, the percentage of
shares beneficially held by directors and
executive officers (24 people) was 19 percent,
and Founder and Chairman Richard M. Schulze
held 53 million shares beneficially (16 percent
of shares outstanding).
As of December 31, 2003, the number of
institutional shareholders was 861. The
percentage of shares held by institutional
shareholders was 69 percent. The top
institutional shareholders were:
Fidelity Management & Research
24.8 million shares (7.6 percent of
shares outstanding)
Barclays Global Investors, N.A.
9.0 million shares
State Street Global Advisors
8.4 million shares
Vanguard Group, Inc.
6.5 million shares
T. Rowe Price
5.2 million shares.
Shareholder Information
Visit www.BestBuy.com
and click on ”For Our
Investors” to down-
load digital files of
this and previous
annual reports.
More information
about store counts
and locations also
can be found online.
We value and
appreciate your
feedback on this
report and look
forward to reading
your comments
on the attached
investor survey card.
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