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MINNEAPOLIS - November 14, 2007 - As Best Buy continues to enhance the holiday shopping experience for its Spanish speaking customers, the company launched a transactional bilingual website. Best Buy has listened to their growing Hispanic customer base and in an effort to further address their unmet needs, has made numerous changes. Some changes include: Adding bilingual signage at more than 220 stores, hiring more sales associates and call center operators fluent in multiple languages and developing Spanish advertising materials, including the popular weekly insert.

MINNEAPOLIS - November 12, 2007 - Best Buy, determined to make the holidays brighter for teenagers, today announced its seventh annual Toys for Teens campaign. For more than a decade Best Buy has supported the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation. In 2001, Best Buy partnered with them to create the Toys for Teens charitable program to address the needs of older children. To date, Best Buy, together with its partners and customers, has raised more than $3.2 million through the Toys for Teens program to benefit older children across the U.S.

Best Buy Canada announces the availability of Justin Timberlake Releases.

MINNEAPOLIS – October 17, 2007 – As the end of the analog broadcast era draws near, Best Buy, the nation’s largest consumer electronics retailer, is taking steps to create a smooth transition to digital television (DTV) for all consumers.  That’s why Best Buy today announced that it has pulled all remaining analog television products from store shelves and will only sell digital video tuners in the future.  The company also announced that it will participate in the NTIA DTV Converter Box Coupon Program to help people purchase digital converter boxes for their analog televisions.  Coupon-eligible converter boxes will be available in Best Buy stores beginning in early 2008.