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Best Buy Management Discusses Q2 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

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Best Buy (BBY)

Q2 2013 Earnings Call

August 21, 2012 9:00 am ET

Executives

Bill Seymour - Vice President of Investor Relations

George L. Mikan - Interim Chief Executive Officer, Director, Member of Audit Committee and Member of Compensation & Human Resources Committee

James L. Muehlbauer - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial officer of Best Buy U S

Michael A. Vitelli - Executive Vice President and President of US Operations

Analysts

Alan M. Rifkin - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Eric Hiller - RBS Research

David A. Schick - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division

Scot Ciccarelli - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division

Michael Baker - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division

Michael Lasser - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division

David S. Strasser - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Research Division

Matthew J. Fassler - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division

Peter J. Keith - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division

David G. Magee - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Research Division

Presentation

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Best Buy's conference call for the second quarter of fiscal 2013. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this call is being recorded for playback and will be available by 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time today. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to turn the conference call over to Bill Seymour, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Bill Seymour

[indiscernible] conference call. We have 2 speakers today, Mike Mikan, our Interim CEO; and Jim Muehlbauer, our CFO. And after our prepared remarks, we'll be happy to take Q&A.

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