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At the end of fiscal 2007, we operated 822 U.S. Best Buy
stores, 20 Magnolia Audio Video stores, 14 Pacific Sales
stores and 12 Geek Squad stores, totaling approximately
34.0 million retail square feet.
The operations of the Domestic segment are serviced by the
following major distribution centers:
Location Square
FootageOwned
or Leased
Dinuba, California 1,028,000 Owned
Findlay, Ohio 1,010,000 Leased
Nichols, New York 720,000 Owned
Ardmore, Oklahoma 720,000 Owned
Franklin, Indiana 714,000 Owned
Staunton, Virginia 709,000 Leased
Dublin, Georgia 700,000 Leased
Bloomington, Minnesota 425,000 Leased
Whittier, California 305,000 Leased
Total 6,331,000
We also lease approximately 2.9 million square feet of
space in 13 satellite warehouses in major metropolitan
markets for home delivery of major appliances and
large-screen televisions.
Our principal corporate office is located in Richfield,
Minnesota, and is an owned facility consisting of four
interconnected buildings totaling approximately 1.5 million
square feet. Accenture, who manages our information
technology and human resources operations, and certain
other of our vendors who provide us with a variety of
additional corporate services, occupy a portion of our
principal corporate office.
International Segment
The following table summarizes the geographic location of our International segment stores at the end of fiscal 2007:
Canada China
Canada Best Buy
Stores
Future Shop
Stores
China Best Buy
Stores
Five Star
Stores
Alberta 715
British Columbia 6 21
Manitoba 2 5
New Brunswick — 3
Newfoundland — 1
Nova Scotia — 2
Ontario 23 48
Prince Edward Island — 1
Quebec 8 22
Saskatchewan 1 3
Anhui —14
Henan —7
Jiangsu —86
Shandong —8
Shanghai 1—
Sichuan —4
Yunnan —3
Zhejiang —13
Total 47 121 1 135
Note: At the end of fiscal 2007, we owned three of our Canada Best Buy stores, six of our Five Star stores and our China Best Buy store. All
other stores in the International segment at the end of fiscal 2007 were leased.