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shareholder information
Corporate campus
Best Buy Co., Inc.
7601 Penn Avenue South
Richfield, MN 55423-3645
Phone: (612) 291-1000
Independent registered public
accounting firm
Deloitte & Touche LLP (fiscal 2007 and 2006)
Ernst & Young LLP (prior to fiscal 2006)
General counsel
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.
Annual shareholders’ meeting
June 27, 2007, 9:30 a.m. (CDT)
Best Buy Corporate Campus –Theater
If you have a proposal for a future meeting,
please send it to Joseph M. Joyce, senior
vice president –general counsel and assistant
secretary, at the company’s corporate cam-
pus in Richfield, Minn. The deadline for pro-
posals to be considered at the 2008
regular meeting of shareholders is Jan. 17,
2008. More details are included in
our proxy statement.
General information
Shareholders may access our SEC
filings, annual reports and quarterly finan-
cial results by visiting the company’s Web
site, www.BestBuy.com. Scroll toward the
bottom of the page and select “For Our
Investors.” 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 to obtain
product information, company background
information, current news, financial informa-
tion and our corporate responsibility report.
Or, contact:
Best Buy Co., Inc.–Investor Relations
Jennifer Driscoll, Vice President
Charles Marentette, Senior Director
Carla Haugen, Director
7601 Penn Avenue South
Richfield, MN 55423-3645
Phone: (612) 291- 6147
Transfer agent
For questions regarding your stock
certificates–such as lost certificates, name
changes and transfers of ownership–
please contact our transfer agent:
Computershare Trust Company, N.A.
P.O. Box 43078
Providence, RI 02940-3078
Phone: (877) 498-8861 or
(781) 575-2879
Hearing impaired: (800) 952-9245
www.computershare.com
Dividend policy
We pay a quarterly cash dividend to holders
of common shares. The quarterly rate was
10 cents per common share at the end of
fiscal 2007.
Stock split history
Our stock has split eight times in the
company’s history.
Date Split
4/1/1986 Two for one
2/23/1987 Three for two
9/2/1993 Three for two
4/29/1994 Two for one
5/27/1998 Two for one
3/19/1999 Two for one
5/13/2002 Three for two
8/3/2005 Three for two
Direct stock purchase and
dividend reinvestment plan
You may purchase our common stock
and/or elect to reinvest your dividend
directly through our transfer agent. To
obtain information on the plan
or to enroll:
By Mail: Computershare Investment Plan
for Best Buy
c/o Computershare
P.O. Box 43081
Providence, RI 02940-3081
By Phone: (877) 498-8861
By Internet: Go to www.BestBuy.com. Scroll
toward the bottom of the page, select “For
Our Investors” and then “Direct Stock
Purchase Plans.”
Financial releases
for fiscal 2008
Quarterly earnings releases normally are
distributed before the market opens.
Quarterly earnings conference calls normally
are scheduled at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time.
We do not expect to host a conference call
in conjunction with the release of December
revenue results.
Disclosure Date
First-Quarter Earnings 6/19/2007
Second-Quarter Earnings 9/18/2007
Third-Quarter Earnings 12/18/2007
December Revenue 1/11/2008
Fourth-Quarter Earnings 4/2/2008
Shareholders at a glance
As of March 3, 2007, the percentage of
shares beneficially held by directors and
executive officers (26 people) was 17 per-
cent. Founder and Chairman Richard M.
Schulze held 74 million shares beneficially
(15 percent of shares outstanding).
As of Dec. 31, 2006, the number of institu-
tional investors was 623. The percentage of
shares held by institutions was 70.6 percent.
The top institutional shareholders were:*
+Capital Research &
Management Company
73.5 million shares
+Fidelity Management &
Research Company
20.6 million shares
+Barclays Global Investors
12.1 million shares
+State Street Global Advisors
11.0 million shares
+Vanguard Group
10.7 million shares
*Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.
The Nancekivell Group www.nancekivell.com
Best Buy 2007 Annual Report
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