The Vancouver-based Canadian subsidiary of Minneapolis' Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE:BBY) substantially outperformed its parent company for revenue growth in the most recent quarter, according to Best Buy's earnings report released Thursday.

The jolt from Canadian operations helped Best Buy surpass analysts' sales expectations even though the company's share price fell as much as 6.6 per cent earlier Thursday morning after its CEO, Corie Barry, said on a conference call that she would maintain the company's annual guidance .

Best Buy Canada employs about 10,000 people, making it one of the largest retailers based in B.C. That compares with staff counts at Lululemon Athetica Inc. (39,000), Save-On-Foods (22,000), Aritzia (more than 8,300) and London Drugs (more than 9,000).

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