Best Buy
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is a specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the United States, accounting for 19% of the market. It also operates in Mexico, Canada, China, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The company's subsidiaries include Geek Squad, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, and, in Canada operates under both the Best Buy and Future Shop label. Together these operate more than 1,150 stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, China, Mexico, and Turkey. In addition, the company has rolled out over 100 Best Buy Express Automated Retail stores or "ZoomShops", operated by Zoom Systems, in airports and malls around the U.S. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Richfield, Minnesota.
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Campaign Finance
Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
- only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
- contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
- corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
- organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.
For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.
Latest FEC Data
covers through committee's October 17, 2012 filing.-
Summary
overview of the committee's finances- Total Raised:
- $228,689
- Total Spent:
- $247,350
- Cash on Hand:
- $4,100
- Debts:
- $0
Standardized Donation Information
covers through June 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.-
Top Recipients
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Lobbying
$3,300,000 SpentFigures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.
For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.
Lobbying On Behalf of Best Buy
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Names of Lobbyists
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Firm Hired Amount Kountoupes Consulting $400,000 Barnes & Thornburg $115,000 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Banking,
- Taxes,
- Trade,
- Telecommunications,
- Environment & Superfund,
- Energy & Nuclear Power,
- Labor, Antitrust & Workplace,
- Transportation,
- Consumer Product Safety,
- Fed Budget & Appropriations
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title H.R.1081 Consumers Payment System Protection Act S.575 Debit Interchange Fee Study Act of 2011 H.R.3179 Marketplace Equity Act of 2011 S.1832 Marketplace Fairness Act H.R.2168 Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act S.1000 Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2011 S.1207 Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2011 S.1212 Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act S.1223 Location Privacy Protection Act of 2011 H.R.2701 Main Street Fairness Act
Regulations
16 Mentions; 4 SubmissionsAll data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.
Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.
Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.
Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.
The tables show occurrences of "Best Buy" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Documents Submitted by the Organization
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Mentions in Document Text
Advisory Committees
1 person on 1 committeeData is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.
The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.
Table shows employees of "Best Buy" that sat on federal advisory committees.
View all advisory committee data for Best Buy