Best Buy customers and employees donated $20.8 million in stores
and online to help end childhood cancer and other life-threatening
diseases

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–For the third consecutive year, Best Buy finished as the top fundraising
partner in St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s® annual Thanks and Giving^®
campaign. Best Buy set a new record for itself, raising $20.8 million
over the holiday season to help in the fight against childhood cancer
and other life-threatening diseases.

“What makes Best Buy so special is that we are a company with a great
big heart. When we ask our people to help those in need, everyone shows
up,” said Ray Sliva, Best Buy’s senior vice president of retail
operations. “I’m proud of our customers and employees. Their generosity
will make a big difference in the lives of so many families served by
St. Jude.”

Funds raised are critical given that families never receive a bill from
St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food—because all a family
should worry about is helping their child live.

“We are blessed to have the extraordinary support of Best Buy, its
employees and its customers during the St. Jude Thanks and Giving
campaign,” said Marlo Thomas, national outreach director for St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital. “I am truly inspired by their passion and
commitment to the children. Their amazing dedication allows St. Jude to
focus on what matters most, saving the lives of precious children around
the world.”

For six holiday seasons, Best Buy has partnered with St. Jude in the
hospital’s mission to find cures and save children. We are proud to say
that we have raised more than $80 million for St. Jude.

To learn more about Best Buy, please visit BestBuy.com.

To learn more about St. Jude, please visit www.stjude.org.

About Best Buy
We at Best Buy
work hard every day to enrich the lives of consumers through technology,
whether they come to us online, visit our stores or invite us into their
homes. We do this by solving technology problems and addressing key
human needs across a range of areas, including entertainment,
productivity, communication, food, security and health.

About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital:
St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world
understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other
life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving
children.^® It is the only National Cancer
Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to
children. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall
childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent
since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude won’t stop
until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude freely shares the discoveries
it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists
worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.
Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel,
housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping
their child live. Join the St. Jude mission by visiting stjude.org,
liking St. Jude on Facebook,
following St. Jude on Twitter
and Instagram
and subscribing to its YouTube
channel.

Contacts

Best Buy
Boua Xiong, 612-231-5146, [email protected]

ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Sarah Clark,
901-229-8726, [email protected]