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Archive Home > 2012 > November > 24 > The lost empire: Best Buy looks to make a comeback

The lost empire: Best Buy looks to make a comeback

By Thomas Lee, David Shaffer and Paul McEnroe / The Bulletin
November 24, 2012

Allen Lenzmeier stared hard at the numbers, trying to absorb the long line of zeros.

You want $475 million in sales? In just five years? This company barely had five months left to survive, he thought.

The 39-year-old accountant had arrived in St. Paul, Minn., in 1982 to interview for a job at....

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