MARKETPLACE
OUR GLOBAL FINANCIAL RANKING
SHARE OF TOP 250 SALES BY REGION/COUNTRY 2006
Source: Published company data and Planet Retail.
In January 2008 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, in conjunction with STORES Magazine, published the 11th annual Global Powers of Retailing report. The report identifies the 250 largest retailers around the world based on publicly available company data for the 2006–07 financial year. Woolworths was ranked in 25th position, up from 29th in the previous year, making us the first Australian retailer to break into the top 25. We were also ranked third within the Asia-Pacific region.
To rank among the top 250 globally, each company needed to achieve retail sales of at least $2.72 billion in 2006–07, up from $2.5 billion the year before. The average retail sales volume for companies in this group was $13.0 billion.
TOP 10 ASIA/PACIFIC RETAILERS 2006 |
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| Asia/Pacific rank |
Top 250 rank |
Company | Retail sales (US$ billion) |
Country of origin |
| 1 | 15 | Seven & I Holdings | 43.8 | Japan |
| 2 | 21 | AEON | 38.1 | Japan |
| 3 | 25 | Woolworths | 32.5 | Australia |
| 4 | 31 | Coles Group | 25.6 | Australia |
| 5 | 54 | AS Watson | 12.8 | Hong Kong SAR |
| 6 | 58 | Yamada Denki | 12.4 | Japan |
| 7 | 75 | Uny | 10.2 | Japan |
| 8 | 79 | Lotte | 9.4 | South Korea |
| 9 | 87 | The Daiei | 8.9 | Japan |
| 10 | 92 | Shinsegae | 8.5 | South Korea |
THE TOP 25 RETAILERS WERE:
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (USA)
- Carrefour S.A. (France)
- The Home Depot Inc (USA)
- Tesco plc (UK)
- Metro AG (Germany)
- The Kroger Co (USA)
- Target Corp (USA)
- Costco Wholesale Corp (USA)
- Sears Holdings Corp (USA)
- Schwarz Unternehmens Treuhand KG (Germany)
- Aldi GmbH & Co. oHG (Germany)
- Walgreen Co (USA)
- Lowe’s Companies Inc (USA)
- Rewe-Zentral AG (Germany)
- Seven & I Holdings Co Ltd (Japan)
- Groupe Auchan SA (France)
- Edeka Zentrale AG & Co KG (Germany)
- CVS Corp (USA)
- Safeway Inc. (USA)
- Centres Distributeurs E Leclerc (France)
- AEON Co Ltd (Japan)
- Koninklijke Anold N.V (Netherlands)
- Best Buy Co., Inc. (USA)
- ITM Développement International (Intermarché) (France)
- Woolworths Limited (Australia)
The report ranked corporate responsibility high among the top ten trends in global retailing, noting that some retailers and their suppliers are eager to position themselves to be able to meet more stringent environmental regulations when they come into effect.
The full Global Powers of Retailing report can be viewed at www.deloitte.com/consumerbusiness.