Company: BBY
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-016935
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Company: BEST BUY CO INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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 Pay continuation (paid leave) and caregiver pay so employees can care for themselves and their loved ones; and |

| ○ | Parental leave for U.S. employees that provides eligible birth parents 100% pay for ten weeks and eligible non-birth parents 100% pay for four weeks. |

| • | Financial assistance up to $2,500 to employees experiencing personal hardship through the HOPE Fund – Helping Our People in Emergencies – in partnership with the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation; |

| • | Mental health support, including our commitment to raise awareness by equipping employees with training to notice issues in themselves or others, and then find help; and |

| • | Tuition assistance, including the expansion of our partnership schools that give eligible employees the opportunity to earn a degree with no out-of-pocket costs. |

Public Policy As a major corporation and corporate citizen, we believe that it is important to work with policymakers on issues impacting our business, customers, employees, shareholders and communities. We know that collaboration helps bring about change that better serves our industry and the communities where we live and work. In fiscal 2025, our public policy priorities included: cybersecurity and data privacy, artificial intelligence and technology innovation, environmental sustainability, fair competition, telehealth and care at home, immigration reform, retail crime, supply chain and infrastructure, taxation, international trade and workforce issues. More information about these priorities, as well as our annual political activity reports and related policies, can be found at https://corporate.bestbuy.com/advocacy. Securities Trading Policy We have adopted a Securities Trading Policy (the “Trading Policy”) that governs the purchase, sale and/or other dispositions of the Company’s securities by our directors, officers, employees and the Company itself, and that we believe is reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations and the exchange listing standards applicable to us. A copy of our Trading Policy was filed as Exhibit 19.1 to our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Corporate Governance at Best Buy _____________________________

Communications with the Board Anyone who wishes to contact the Board, any individual director or the independent directors as a group, is welcome to do so in writing, addressed to such person(s) in care of: Mr. Todd G. Hartman Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Risk Officer and Secretary Best Buy Co., Inc. 7601 Penn Avenue South Richfield