TJX Logo — TJX Companies is a North American and UK acting retailer based in Framingham / Massachusetts in the United States . The Group is in the stock index S & P 500 (Standard & Poor’s 500) listed.
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Gained international attention to the group when it was announced that 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers have been stolen from customers by breaking into the computer systems of the Group. More
Safeway Inc Logo — Safeway, Inc is the third largest retailer in the U.S. Headquartered in Pleasanton , California . The company is in the stock index S & P 500 listed in 2008 and had a turnover of 44.1 billion dollars. Safeway was founded in 1915th.
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Besides the name Safeway , the company operates under other brands supermarkets: More
Publix Logo — Publix Super Markets, Inc. (commonly known as Publix ) is a chain of supermarkets U.S. . The first settlement was founded by George W. Jenkins in 1930 in Winter Haven ( Florida ). Today its headquarters are based in Lakeland , also in Florida.
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As of October 2008 employing over 140,500 people in its 1,029 retail stores, cooking schools, corporate offices, eight grocery distribution centers, and nine manufacturing plants that produce their own brand dairy products, delicatessen, a bakery and other food products. Is set in 5 states: Florida, Georgia , Alabama , Tennessee and South Carolina .Publix operates “Publix Sabor,” four supermarkets that offer products for Hispanics. It has three stores “Publix Sabor” in Miami-Dade County in Greater Miami , including the store, “Hialeah Market” in Hialeah , the store, “Miller Square Shopping Center” in Kendale Lakes , and the store “Publix Sabor Coral Way Shopping Center “in Westchester . has a Publix Sabor store, “Ventura Downs,” in Buenaventura Lakes , Osceola County in Greater Orlando . More
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
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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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
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