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20 Aug: Best Buy CEO Statement On Boca Raton Event

One of our customers in the Boca Raton, Florida area was tragically attacked yesterday and has since passed away. We are profoundly sorry and offer our deepest sympathies to her family. Out of respect for them, we have closed our Boca Raton store today.

Beyond working with law enforcement in any way we can, we have suspended our relationship with the small, local company that was subcontracted to deliver to the customer’s home. In the hours after we initially learned what happened, we immediately revisited our delivery and installation programs and, in the coming days, will do two things: 1) ensure all our processes were followed and 2) work with our delivery partners to do anything more we can to help ensure that this type of tragedy will not happen again.

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15 Aug: Best Buy Acquires GreatCall, A Leading Connected Health Services Provider

Acquisition is in line with Best Buy 2020 strategy

Strengthens company’s position and growth opportunities in the
fast-changing health space, with a focus on the growing needs
of the aging population

 

Minneapolis, August 15, 2018 – Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY), a leading technology products and services provider, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GreatCall, Inc. for $800 million in cash.  

GreatCall is a leading provider of connected health and personal emergency response services to the aging population, with more than 900,000 paying subscribers.

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25 Oct: Nation’s Job Readiness Deficit to Get Big Boost from Best Buy Support

By 2020, Best Buy will prepare one million youth annually for tech-reliant careers through a vastly expanded Teen Tech Center network, new Career Pathways program and heightened community-based efforts

MINNEAPOLIS — Best Buy today announced that the company will substantially increase its commitment to under-served young people over the next three years. By 2020, the leading technology products and services provider will prepare one million youth a year for tech-reliant jobs through intensified training and career readiness programs.

Best Buy’s accelerated, multi-million-dollar commitment comes as the U.S.