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MINNEAPOLIS, November 19, 2009 – Best Buy (NYSE:BBY), is bringing the excitement of Black Friday a week early this holiday season. Starting today, Best Buy will offer Black Friday pricing on certain models of flat panel televisions as well as other top brand home theater products.
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MINNEAPOLIS, November 11, 2009 – Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) announced today that Robert A. Willett, 63, CEO of Best Buy International, will retire effective Dec. 31, 2009. The company does not plan to name a successor to the specific role of International CEO. Brian J. Dunn, Chief Executive of Best Buy Co., Inc., is working with Willett on a smooth transition. The company has strong local leaders and teams in every country in which it operates and is confident in their abilities. Best Buy’s evolving global growth strategy creates opportunities to approach the work in new ways. The company remains fully committed to its global growth strategy, and it continues to be one of the company’s four strategic priorities.
Minneapolis, MN (November 3, 2009) - Best Buy Co., Inc (NYSE: BBY) and Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC) today announced a strategic relationship that will result in a new Best Buy customer offering in its growing line-up of digital entertainment products. The new on-demand movie and entertainment service will be powered by Sonic's Roxio CinemaNow™ and will allow consumers to have access to buy or rent a vast library of premium content.
Second Annual Best Buy Black Friday VIP Contest; Opportunity to Win a $1,000 Gift Card, Early Entry into the Store, Full VIP Treatment on the morning after Thanksgiving.
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MINNEAPOLIS, October 8, 2009 – Whether it’s the latest eReader, the world’s smartest pen or the next generation of brain games, “must have “ tech gadgets are at the top of everyone’s holiday entertainment wish list. That’s why Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY), the nation’s largest consumer electronics retailer, has launched a Gadgets and eReaders collection spanning a wide array of products for customers to entertain their minds. Beginning Sunday, Oct. 11, customers can see, play and interact with these devices in a new shopping space launching at Best Buy stores nationwide.
MINNEAPOLIS, October 7, 2009 – Trapped in a house haunted by once useful, but now useless, gadgets and gizmos? Is your outdated technology truly scary – maybe a VCR that eats tapes, a screeching dial-up modem, a dryer that devours socks, or a laptop that could double as a headstone? Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) can help! Today, with a little help from Poltergeist’s Zelda Rubenstein (Tangina), the nation’s largest consumer electronics retailer launches “Scary Technology,” a photo contest for consumers to show us their outdated home technology for a chance to win a complete home theater makeover.
MINNEAPOLIS, September 28 – Along with leaders from Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) and Minnesota’s electronics recycling industry, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) unveiled proposed federal legislation Sunday at the Richfield, Minn. Best Buy store that seeks to improve the recycling of electronics across the U.S.
MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, Minn. – Best Buy and the Minnesota Twins today announced a new seven-year partnership that includes a founding partner designation for Target Field, the new world-class home of the Twins opening in April 2010.
