Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Kroger, Macy's Among Nation's Top 20 Retailers - Check Out The List




The top 20 retailers ranked by 2012 U.S. sales were Wal-Mart, Kroger, Target, Walgreen, Costco, The Home Depot, CVS Caremark, Lowe's, Best Buy, Safeway, McDonald's, Sears Holdings, SUPERVALU, Publix, Amazon.com, Macy's, Rite Aid, Ahold USA/Royal Ahold, Delhaize America, and Kohl's.




Two Cincinnati-based companies – The Kroger Co. and Macy’s Inc. – remain entrenched on a list of the nation’s largest retailers for U.S. sales.

The National Retail Federation’s STORES magazine lists Kroger as the nation’s No. 2 retailer reporting more than $92 billion in sales last year and Macy’s was the No. 14 retailer with $26.3 billion in sales.

London-based Kantar Retail compiled the data.

Kroger remained No. 2 on the list from a year ago while Macy’s jumped two spots on the list.

Sales for Kroger rose 6.6 percent and its store count dipped 1 percent to 3,538 from 2011.

Sales for Macy’s rose 4.9 percent from 2011 while it gained one store to stand at 841.

Based on 2013 projections, Kroger is expected to maintain its position as the nation’s No. 2 retailer and Macy’s is expected to rise to No. 13 in the country.

Kroger could rise to be the world’s fifth largest retailer based on sales projections for the 2013 calendar year, based on data provided by Kantar Retail.

Walmart remains the nation’s and the world’s largest retailer as it generated $467.9 billion of sales worldwide. An estimated 70.3 percent of company’s sales were in the United States.

(Original article written by Bowdeya Tweh for cincinnati.com and can be located here)

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