Top 200 largest retailers Global全球最大的200家零售企业.pdf

Top 200 Retailers Worldwide, 2009 Inspired by January/2011 / Point of View The list of the Top 200 largest retailers was shadowed by the weak global economy which dampened retail sales, especially for softgoods, homegoods and non-store retailers. Changes in the strength of currencies also significantly affected the rankings. The faltering U.S. housing market dragged The Home Depot down to the bottom of the Top 10 retailers. European retailers, especially those based in the United Kingdom, struggled to hold their ground due to a weaker currency relative to the United States and Japan. This is part of the reason why U.S. and Japanese retailers made up a majority of the five new retailers entering the Top 200. Value-focused consumers lifted sales growth at TJX, pushing it into the second spot on the list of the Top 10 largest softgoods retailers. Fast-growing A took the top spot among non-store retailers from PPR. Best Buy moved up to become the second-largest homegoods retailer in 2009 next only to The Home Depot, but other U.S.–based homegoods retailers struggled to keep their same position on the list of the Top 10 largest homegoods retailers. Among the Top 10 Food Drug Mass (FDM) retailers, Metro, Seven I, and Costco each moved up one spot. ● The Top 10. Wal-Mart continues to hold the top spot on the list of Top 10 retailers worldwide by posting improved sales of $405 billion (Figure 1). That is more than three times that of Carrefour, the next-biggest retailer. Due to the tough global economic environment, the majority of the Top 10