Best Buy 2008 Annual Report Download - page 117

Shareholder information
Corporate campus
Best Buy Co., Inc.
7601 Penn Avenue South
Richfi eld, MN 55423-3645
Phone: [phone]
Independent registered public
accounting fi rm
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Outside general counsel
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.
Regular meeting of shareholders
June 25, 2008, 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 campus in Richfi eld, Minn.
The deadline for proposals to be included
in the proxy for the 2009 regular meeting
of shareholders is Jan. 15, 2009. More
details are included in our proxy statement.
General information
Shareholders may access our SEC fi lings,
annual reports and quarterly fi nancial
results by visiting the “For Our Investors”
section of our Web site, www.BestBuy.com.
A Web-based e-mail notifi cation system
also is available under “E-mail Alerts” to
alert subscribers to new fi nancial releases,
SEC fi lings, upcoming events and other
signifi cant postings.
You may also visit our Web site to
obtain product information, company
background information, current news,
fi nancial information and our Corporate
Responsibility Report.
Or contact:
Best Buy Co., Inc.—investor relations
Jennifer Driscoll, Vice President
Charles Marentette, Senior Director
Wade Bronson, Director
7601 Penn Avenue South
Richfi eld, MN 55423-3645
Phone: [phone]
Transfer agent
For questions regarding your stock
certifi cates—such as lost certifi cates,
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: [phone] or
[phone]
Hearing impaired: [phone]
www.computershare.com
Dividend policy
We pay a quarterly cash dividend to
holders of common shares. The quarterly
rate was 13 cents per common share
at the end of fi scal 2008.
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
8/4/2005 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 Internet: Please visit the “For Our
Investors” section of our Web site at
www.BestBuy.com and click on
“Direct Stock Purchase Plans.”
Financial releases for fi scal 2009
We normally distribute fi nancial releases
before the market opens. Quarterly earnings
conference calls typically are scheduled at
10 a.m., Eastern Time. We do not expect
to host a conference call in conjunction with
the release of December revenue results.
Disclosure Estimated date
First-quarter earnings 6/17/2008
Second-quarter earnings 9/16/2008
Third-quarter earnings 12/16/2008
December revenue 1/9/2009
Fourth-quarter earnings 4/1/2009
Shareholders at a glance
As of March 1, 2008, the percentage
of shares benefi
cially held by directors
and executive offi cers (28 people)
was 19 percent. Founder and
Chairman Richard M. Schulze held
almost 70 million shares benefi cially
(approximately 17 percent of shares
outstanding).
As of Dec. 31, 2007, the top institutional
shareholders were:*
• Capital World Investors
54.1 million shares
• Capital Research Global Investors
29.3 million shares
• The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
25.6 million shares
• State Street Global Advisors
12.2 million shares
• Vanguard Group
10.9 million shares
*Source: FactSet and SEC fi lings
Cert no. SW-COC-1865