Exhibit 99
BEST BUY CO., INC.
2004 OMNIBUS STOCK AND INCENTIVE
PLAN
(As amended June 24,
2009)
Table of Contents
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Section 1.
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Purpose
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Section 2.
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Definitions
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Section 3.
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Administration
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(a)
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Power and Authority of the
Committee
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(b)
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Power and Authority of the
Board
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Section 4.
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Shares Available for
Awards
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(a)
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Shares Available
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(b)
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Accounting for Awards
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(c)
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Adjustments
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(d)
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Award Limitations Under the
Plan
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Section 5.
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Eligibility
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Section 6.
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Awards
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(a)
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Options
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(b)
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Stock Appreciation Rights
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(c)
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Restricted Stock and Restricted
Stock Units
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(d)
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Performance Awards
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(e)
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Dividend Equivalents
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(f)
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Other Stock Grants
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(g)
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General
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Section 7.
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Amendment and Termination;
Adjustments
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(a)
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Amendments to the Plan
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(b)
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Amendments to Awards
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(c)
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Correction of Defects, Omissions and
Inconsistencies
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Section 8.
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Income Tax
Withholding
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Section 9.
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General Provisions
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(a)
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No Rights to Awards
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(b)
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Award Agreements
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(c)
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Plan Provisions Control
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(d)
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No Rights of Shareholders
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(e)
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No Limit on Other Compensation
Arrangements
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(f)
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No Right to Employment
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(g)
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Governing Law
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(h)
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Severability
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(i)
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No Trust or Fund Created
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(j)
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No Fractional Shares
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(k)
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Headings
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Section 10.
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Effective Date of the
Plan
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Section 11.
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Term of the Plan
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BEST BUY CO., INC.
2004 OMNIBUS STOCK AND INCENTIVE
PLAN
Section 1.
Purpose and Background
The purpose of the Plan is to
promote the interests of the Company and its shareholders by aiding
the Company in attracting and retaining employees, officers,
consultants, advisors and directors capable of assuring the future
success of the Company, to offer such persons incentives to put
forth maximum efforts for the success of the Company’s
business and to compensate such persons through various stock-based
arrangements and provide them with opportunities for stock
ownership in the Company, thereby aligning the interests of such
persons with the Company’s shareholders.
Section 2.
Definitions
As used in the Plan, the following
terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
(a) “Affiliate”
shall mean (i) any entity that, directly or indirectly through
one or more intermediaries, is controlled by the Company and
(ii) any entity in which the Company has a significant equity
interest, in each case as determined by the Committee.
(b) “Award” shall
mean any Option, Stock Appreciation Right, Restricted Stock,
Restricted Stock Unit, Performance Award, Dividend Equivalent or
Other Stock Grant granted under the Plan.
(c) “Award
Agreement” shall mean any written agreement, contract or
other instrument or document evidencing an Award granted under the
Plan. Each Award Agreement shall be subject to the applicable terms
and conditions of the Plan and any other terms and conditions (not
inconsistent with the Plan) determined by the Committee.
(d) “Board” shall
mean the Board of Directors of the Company.
(e) “Change in
Control” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in an
Award Agreement, or any other applicable employment or change in
control agreement between the Participant and the
Company.
(f) “Code” shall
mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
time, and any regulations promulgated thereunder.
(g) “Committee”
shall mean the Compensation and Human Resources Committee of the
Board or any other committee of the Board designated by the Board
to administer the Plan. The Committee shall be comprised of not
less than such number of Directors as shall be required to permit
Awards granted under the Plan to qualify under Rule 16b-3 and
Section 162(m), and each member of the Committee shall be a
“Non-Employee Director.”
(h) “Company”
shall mean Best Buy Co., Inc., a Minnesota corporation, and
any successor corporation.
(i) “Director”
shall mean a member of the Board, including any Non-Employee
Director.
(j) “Dividend
Equivalent” shall mean any right granted under
Section 6(e) of the Plan.
(k) “Eligible
Person” shall mean any employee, officer, consultant, advisor
or director providing services to the Company or any Affiliate who
the Committee determines to be an Eligible Person. An Eligible
Person must be a natural person.
(l) “Exchange Act”
shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
(m) “Fair Market
Value” shall mean, with respect to any property (including,
without limitation, any Shares or other securities), the fair
market value of such property determined by such methods or
procedures as shall be established from time to time by the
Committee. Notwithstanding the foregoing and unless otherwise
determined by the Committee, the Fair Market Value of a Share as of
a given date shall be, if the Shares are then listed on the New
York Stock Exchange, the closing price of one Share as reported on
the New York Stock Exchange on such date or, if the New York Stock
Exchange is
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not open for trading on such date,
on the most recent preceding date when it is open for
trading.
(n) “Incentive Stock
Option” shall mean an option granted under
Section 6(a) of the Plan that is intended to qualify as
an “incentive stock option” in accordance with the
terms of Section 422 of the Code or any successor
provision.
(o) “Non-Employee
Director” shall mean any Director who is a
“non-employee director” as defined under subparagraph
(b)(3) of Rule 16b-3 and is an “outside
director” within the meaning of
Section 162(m).
(p) “Non-Qualified Stock
Option” shall mean an option granted under
Section 6(a) of the Plan that is not an Incentive Stock
Option.
(q) “Option” shall
mean an Incentive Stock Option or a Non-Qualified Stock
Option.
(r) “Other Stock
Grant” shall mean any right granted under
Section 6(f) of the Plan.
(s) “Participant”
shall mean an Eligible Person designated to be granted an Award
under the Plan.
(t) “Performance
Award” shall mean any right granted under
Section 6(d) of the Plan.
(u) “Performance
Goal” shall mean one or more of the following performance
goals, either individually, alternatively or in any combination,
applied on a corporate, subsidiary or business unit basis: revenue,
cash flow, gross profit, earnings before interest and taxes,
earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and
net earnings, earnings per share, margins (including one or more of
gross, operating and net income margins), returns (including one or
more of return on assets, equity, investment, capital and revenue
and total stockholder return), stock price, economic value added,
working capital, market share, cost reductions, workforce
satisfaction and diversity goals, employee retention, customer
satisfaction, completion of key projects, and strategic plan
development and implementation. Such goals may reflect an absolute
standard of entity or business unit performance or a relative
comparison to the performance of a peer group of entities or other
external measure of the selected performance criteria. Pursuant to
rules and conditions adopted by the Committee on or before the
90th day of the applicable performance period for which Performance
Goals are established, the Committee may appropriately adjust any
evaluation of performance under such goals to exclude the effect of
certain events, including any of the following events: asset
write-downs; litigation or claim judgments or settlements; changes
in tax law, accounting principles or other such laws or provisions
affecting reported results; severance, contract termination and
other costs related to exiting certain business activities; and
gains or losses from the disposition of businesses or assets or
from the early extinguishment of debt.
(v) “Person” shall
mean any individual or entity, including a corporation,
partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture
or trust.
(w) “Plan” shall
mean the Best Buy Co., Inc. 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive
Plan, as amended from time to time, the provisions of which are set
forth herein.
(x) “Restricted
Stock” shall mean any Share granted under
Section 6(c) of the Plan.
(y) “Restricted Stock
Unit” shall mean any unit granted under
Section 6(c) of the Plan evidencing the right to receive
a Share (or a cash payment equal to the Fair Market Value of a
Share) at some future date.
(z)
“Rule 16b-3” shall mean Rule 16b-3
promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under the
Exchange Act, or any successor rule or regulation.
(aa)
“Section 162(m)” shall mean
Section 162(m) of the Code and the applicable Treasury
Regulations promulgated thereunder.
(bb) “Share” or
“Shares” shall mean a share or shares of common stock,
$.10 par value per share, of the Company or such other securities
or property as may become subject to Awards pursuant to an
adjustment made under Section 4(c) of the
Plan.
(cc) “Specified
Employee” shall mean a specified employee as defined in
Section 409A(a)(2)(B) of the Code.
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(dd) “Stock Appreciation
Right” shall mean any right granted under
Section 6(b) of the Plan.
Section 3.
Administration
(a) Power and Authority of the
Committee. The Plan shall be administered by the Committee. Subject
to the express provisions of the Plan and to applicable law, the
Committee shall have full power and authority to:
(i) designate Participants; (ii) determine the type or
types of Awards to be granted to each Participant under the Plan;
(iii) determine the number of Shares to be covered by (or the
method by which payments or other rights are to be determined in
connection with) each Award; (iv) determine the terms and
conditions of any Award or Award Agreement; (v) amend the
terms and conditions of any Award or Award Agreement and accelerate
the exercisability of any Option or waive any restrictions relating
to any Award; (vi) determine whether, to what extent and under
what circumstances Awards may be exercised in cash, Shares, other
securities, other Awards or other property, or canceled, forfeited
or suspended; (vii) determine whether, to what extent and
under what circumstances cash, Shares, other securities, other
Awards, other property and other amounts payable with respect to an
Award under the Plan shall be deferred either automatically or at
the election of the holder thereof or the Committee;
(viii) interpret and administer the Plan and any instrument or
agreement, including any Award Agreement, relating to the Plan;
(ix) establish, amend, suspend or waive such rules and
regulations and appoint such agents as it shall deem appropriate
for the proper administration of the Plan; and (x) make any
other determination and take any other action that the Committee
deems necessary or desirable for the administration of the Plan.
Unless otherwise expressly provided in the Plan, all designations,
determinations, interpretations and other decisions under or with
respect to the Plan or any Award or Award Agreement shall be within
the sole discretion of the Committee, may be made at any time and
shall be final, conclusive and binding upon any Eligible Person and
any holder or beneficiary of any Award.
(b) Power and Authority of the
Board. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
(i) the Board may, at any time and from time to time, exercise
the powers and duties of the Committee under the Plan without any
further action of the Committee, unless the exercise of such powers
and duties by the Board would cause the Plan not to comply with the
requirements of Section 162(m); and (ii) only the
Committee (or another committee of the Board comprised of directors
who qualify as independent directors within the meaning of the
independence rules of the New York Stock Exchange or any other
securities exchange applicable to the Company) may grant Awards to
Directors who are not also employees of the Company or an
Affiliate.
Section 4.
Shares Available for Awards
(a) Shares Available. Subject
to adjustment as provided in Section 4(c) of the Plan,
the aggregate number of Shares that may be issued under the Plan
shall be 51,500,000.
(b) Accounting for Awards. For
purposes of this Section 4, if an Award entitles the holder
thereof to receive or purchase Shares, the number of Shares covered
by such Award or to which such Award relates shall be counted on
the date of grant of such Award against the aggregate number of
Shares available for granting Awards under the Plan. If an Award
terminates or is forfeited or cancelled without the issuance of any
Shares, or if any Shares covered by an Award or to which an Award
relates are not issued for any other reason, then the number of
Shares counted against the aggregate number of Shares available
under the Plan with respect to such Award, to the extent of any
such termination, forfeiture, cancellation or other event, shall
again be available for granting Awards under the Plan. If
Shares of Restricted Stock are forfeited or otherwise reacquired by
the Company prior to vesting, whether or not dividends have been
paid on such Shares, then the number of Shares counted against the
aggregate number of Shares available under the Plan with respect to
such Award of Restricted Stock, to the extent of any such
forfeiture or reacquisition by the Company, shall again be
available for granting Awards under the Plan. Shares that are
withheld in full or partial payment to the Company of the purchase
or exercise price relating to an Award or in connection with the
satisfaction of tax obligations relating to an Award (other than an
Incentive Stock Option) shall again be available for granting
Awards under the Plan. Any previously issued Shares that are used
by a Participant as full or partial payment to the Company of the
purchase or exercise price relating to an Award or in connection
with the satisfaction of tax obligations relating to an Award shall
again be available for granting Awards under the Plan.
(c) Adjustments. In the event
that any dividend or other distribution (whether in the form of
cash, Shares, other securities or other property),
recapitalization, stock split, reverse stock split, reorganization,
merger, consolidation, split-up, spin-off, combination, repurchase
or exchange of Shares or other securities of the Company, issuance
of warrants or other rights to purchase Shares or other securities
of the Company or other similar corporate transaction or event
affects the Shares such that
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an adjustment is necessary in order
to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential
benefits intended to be made available under the Plan, then the
Committee shall adjust any or all of (i) the number and type
of Shares (or other securities or other property) that thereafter
may be made the subject of Awards, (ii) the number and type of
Shares (or other securities or other property) subject to
outstanding Awards, (iii) the purchase price or exercise price
with respect to any Award and (iv) the limitations contained
in Section 4(d) of the Plan.
(d) Award Limitations Under
the Plan.
(i)
Section 162(m) Limitation for Certain Types of Awards. No
Eligible Person may be granted Options, Stock Appreciation Rights
or any other Award or Awards under the Plan, the value of which
Award or Awards is based solely on an increase in the value of the
Shares after the date of grant of such Award or Awards, for more
than 1,500,000 Shares (subject to adjustment as provided in
Section 4(c) of the Plan) in the aggregate in any taxable
year.
(ii)
Section 162(m) Limitation for Performance Awards. If a
Participant is a “covered employee” as defined under
Section 162(m) (a “Covered Employee”) for any
taxable year of the Participant in which a Performance Award (or
portion thereof) is payable to the Participant, the maximum amount
payable in the aggregate to the Participant during that year
pursuant to all Performance Awards, shall be $5,000,000 in value,
whether payable in cash, Shares or other property; and such amount
shall be increased annually (as of each January 1
st after the date of the Plan amendment in
2009) at a fixed percentage rate of 5% (the “Annual
Performance Award Limit”). The Annual Performance Award Limit
does not apply to any Award subject to the limitation contained in
Section 4(d)(i) of the Plan. Further, the Annual
Performance Award Limit applies only to Performance Awards granted
under this Plan; and shall apply to any Performance Award that was
granted under this Plan before the effective date of this
Section 4(d)(ii), as amended in 2009, only to the extent
provided in the Award Agreement evidencing that Performance Award.
Any limitations on awards granted to the Participant under any
other executive incentive plan maintained by the Company (a
“Non-Plan Award”) will be governed solely by the terms
of such other plan; provided, however, that, if any amount is
payable to the Participant during a given year under a Non-Plan
Award that is subject to Code Section 409A, and the terms of
the Non-Plan Award permit or require the Company or any Affiliate
(or its delegate) to delay beyond that year the payment of any
portion of such Non-Plan Award to comply with Section 162(m),
the Company shall cause payment of such portion to be delayed for
that purpose.
If the Committee reasonably
anticipates, on or before any date on which a Performance Award (or
portion thereof) is payable to a Participant, that the Participant
will be a Covered Employee for the taxable year in which that
amount is payable, the Committee will apply the Annual Performance
Award Limit to that amount and any other Performance Award amount
otherwise payable to the Participant during that year; provided,
however, that if the Committee determines at any later time during
the year that the Participant is not a Covered Employee for that
year, due to a termination of employment or for any other reason,
the Committee will direct payment to the Participant of any portion
of a Performance Award or Performance Awards that would have been
payable during that year or any prior year, but was deferred to
comply with the Annual Performance Award Limit, as set forth in
this Section 4(d)(ii); and such payment of deferred
Performance Award amounts shall be made no later than the last day
of the Participant’s first taxable year for which the
Participant is not a Covered Employee, unless that payment is
delayed beyond that year under Section 7(b) of this Plan,
to the extent permitted by or as required to comply with Code
Section 409A.
(iii)
Plan Limitation on Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units,
Dividend Equivalents and Other Stock Grants. No more than
21,000,000 Shares, subject to adjustment as provided in
Section 4(c) of the Plan, shall be available under the
Plan for issuance pursuant to grants of Restricted Stock,
Restricted Stock Units, Dividend Equivalents paid in Shares and
Other Stock Grants; provided, however, that if any Awards of
Restricted Stock Units terminate or are forfeited or cancelled
without the issuance of any Shares or if Shares of Restricted Stock
are forfeited or otherwise reacquired by the Company prior to
vesting, whether or not dividends have been paid on such Shares,
then the Shares subject to such termina