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Metro AG Logo — The Metro AG , the public under the name Metro Group is occurring, one in Dusseldorf -based parent company of several wholesale — and retail companies . The Metro Group employed 258 029 employees as of December 2010 worldwide, of which 94 426 in Germany. With its retail brands, it is now active in 33 countries. Major international competitors of the Metro are Carrefour and Tesco , on the German market, Edeka and Rewe Group .Were at the Metro AG to August 2007, Otto Beisheim with 18.8 percent, the Franz Haniel & Cie. Ltd. with 18.4 percent and the family Schmidt-Ruthenbeck owns 13.0 percent. There was an agreement that the three ‘original owners’ need to stick together more than 50 percent of the shares.

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Early September 2007, the Franz Haniel & Cie. Ltd. announced that it has increased its stake to 15.68 percent to 34.24 percent. At the same time, the family Schmidt-Ruthenbeck has increased its stake to 15.77 percent. Thus, these two shareholders now hold 50.01 percent of the shares. Together with the 18.46 percent of the original shareholders were Otto Beisheim thus 68.47 percent of Metro AG. More

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Tesco Logo — Tesco is a British, represented worldwide supermarket chain . Tesco is the largest retailer in the UK and the fourth largest in the world behind Wal-Mart ( USA ), Carrefour ( France ) and Metro ( Germany ). The name came about after the entrepreneur Jack Cohen 1924 a large quantity of tea from TE Stockwell had bought. He designed new labels for the tea, which is the name for it from the initials of the supplier (TES), followed by the first two letters of his own surname (CO) put together.

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Tesco

In 2003 the chain was honored for having to Aldi and Lidl supermarket offers the most efficient in Europe. Particular emphasis in this study was that it, unlike many competitors, Tesco managed in all areas of price and quality scale private brands to establish. More

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Walgreens Logo — Walgreens ( Walgreen Co. ) is a US-based retail chain with headquarters in Deerfield , Illinois , the pharmaceutical products in the United States sold. Walgreens is in the stock index S & P 100 listed. The company has approximately 7,000 sales offices in the United States and Puerto Rico . About 2,000 of these stores are open 24 hours a day.

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In a typical Walgreens business employs 25-30 employees. In addition to the pharmaceutical industry , there is a photo industry , a cosmetics department and a general range of sales products . Main competitors are the companies CVS Caremark Corporation , Wal-Mart , Rite Aid and Target Corporation .Walgreens was by Charles R. Walgreen founded the first retail store in 1901 in Chicago opened, Illinois. More

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Download JC Penney Logo — JC Penney Company, Inc. ( NYSE : JCP , or commonly known as JCPenney or simply Penneys ) is a chain of department stores in the United States based in Plano, Texas , a suburb on the northern edge of Dallas . The company operates more than 1,067 department stores in all 50 states and Puerto Rico . JC Penney also operates catalog sales of goods and nationally in small markets, making it one of the major catalog stores in the United States.

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Previously operated six stores in Mexico that was purchased by Grupo Carso and were converted into Dorian’s (now closed) and Sears (store only the WTC in Mexico City was turned into Sears). He also had a presence in Chile with two stores in Santiago , but after four years of operating in the red (1995-1999), JC Penney was forced to sell its assets to its local competitor Almacenes Paris . In addition, JC Penney stores often rent as Optical , Portrait Studios , Jewelry & Watch repair, etc.. More

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Download Costco Logo — Founded by James Sinegal and Jeffrey Brotman, Costco opened its first store in Seattle , Washington , on September 15th of 1983 . Sinegal had started in retail working for “Price Sun,” both “FedMart” and “Price Club “. Brotman, an attorney from an ancient family of retail in Seattle, was also involved in retailing from an early age. In 1992 , through a partnership of Price Club and Comercial Mexicana controller opens the first branch Price Club in Mexico, Ciudad Satelite, north of Mexico City.

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In 1993 , Costco merged with Price Club (called ‘Price Club’ in the Canadian province of Quebec ). Costco in size and business model is similar to Price Club, which was founded by Sol and Robert Price in 1976 in San Diego California . Therefore, the combined company, PriceCostco, was effectively double the size of each of their parents. Just after the merger, there were 206 places PriceCostco generating $ 16 billion in annual sales. PriceCostco was initially led by executives of both companies, but then Sol and his son Robert Price founded Price companies and made ​​it 1994 . More

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Office Depot Logo — Office Depot is one of the chain stores of the world’s largest office with more than 1,000 stores worldwide in 23 countries. Their distribution channels are varied including shops and mail deliveries. It also has a strong catalog and e-commerce transactions projected the general public and corporations.

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Office Depot Inc. was founded in 1986 , in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida by three partners: Pat Sher, Stephen Dougherty, and Jack Kopkin. It currently operates under three brands: Office Depot , Viking and Guilbert . More