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About Best Buy
At Best Buy, our purpose is to enrich lives through technology. We do that by leveraging our unique combination of tech expertise and human touch to meet our customers’ everyday needs, whether they come to us online, visit our stores or invite us into their homes. We have more than 1,000 stores and about 100,000 employees in the United States and Canada.
History
The company was founded by Richard Schulze in 1966 and called Sound of Music before the name changed to Best Buy in 1983.
Leadership
Corie Barry is CEO of Best Buy Co. Inc., the leading provider of consumer technology products and services, with approximately 125,000 employees in North America and nearly $43 billion in annual revenue. She also serves on the company’s board of directors.