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TORONTO — Best Buy Canada continues to face pressure from an ongoing global decline in the consumer electronics market, but the retailer is doing a good job of controlling costs in a changing industry, its parent company’s CEO said Thursday.

Revenue in Best Buy Co. Inc.’s international division of Canada, China and Mexico fell 10.5% in the first quarter ended May 3, while sales at stores open for more than a year, a key industry barometer known as same-store sales, fell 5.8% due to weak sales.

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Best Buy Canada has grappled with two years of tepid to declining same-store sales at its more than 210 Best Buy and Future Shop stores amid industry pressure from more specialized retailers such as Apple, and ongoing price rivalry from web sites such as Amazon and eBay.

“Canada, at this point in consumer electronics, is a very, very soft market,” Hubert Joly, chief executive of Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co. Inc., told analysts on a conference call Thursday. “We’ve seen significant industry declines. We’re holding our own very well in comparison to the market.”