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Asda/Wal-MartAsda Wal*Mart is one of the UK's leading retailers, operating 350 supermarkets and hypermarkets selling fresh food, grocery, clothing, home, leisure and entertainment goods. Part of the Wal*Mart group since 1999, Asda Wal*Mart employs 160,000 colleagues and has a turnover of around €18 billion.
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C & AC&A is the well-known fashion retailer, with operations throughout Europe. It sells clothes under the C&A label and a number of exclusive brands, such as Yessica, Angelo Litrico, Canda and Westbury. C&A operates over 1,260 stores in 16 European countries and employs approximately 35,000 people. Recent annual turnover figures are €6.1 billion. -
CarrefourCarrefour Group is one of Europe's largest retailers and is a leading global player operating 14,991 stores in over 30 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Its three main formats are hypermarkets, supermarkets and discount stores. Carrefour's annual sales are €97 billion and the group employs 490,000 co-workers. -
Delhaize GroupDelhaize Group is a Belgian international food retailer with activities in 7 countries (United States, Belgium, Greece, Romania, Indonesia, Luxembourg, Germany) on 3 continents. Delhaize Group's sales network consists of 2,545 stores. It has over €19 billion in revenues and employs approximately 138,000 people. -
El Corte InglésEl Corte Inglés is a leading retailer in the Spanish market with a highly developed network of more than 1,770 stores in different formats and brands: department stores, hypermarkets (Hipercor), supermarkets (Supercor), fashion shops (Sphera) convenience stores (Opencor), DIY (Bricor) and phone articles (Telecor), plus travel agency business (Viajes El Corte Inglés) and insurance services. The department stores offer a full range of goods including foods, fashions, furniture and cars are also present in the Portuguese market. Its subsidiaries Sphera and Viajes El Corte Inglés operates in many European and American countries. The Group has a turnover of €17.8 billion and employs more than 109,000 people. -
H & MH&M offers fashion in more than 1,700 stores in 34 countries and through online and mail-order in the Nordics plus Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Germany is H&M's biggest market followed by France and Sweden. H&M has more than 68,000 employees and turnover in 2007 was SEK 92 billion. -
IKEAIKEA is the world's largest retailer in furniture and home furnishing with 288 stores in 36 countries. Its sales for 2008 were approximately €21.2 billion. It has 135,000 coworkers and its stores are visited by approximately 565 million visitors per year. -
InditexInditex is one of the world's largest fashion distributors, with nine sales formats - Zara, Pull and Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Zara Home and Uterqüe - boasting 4,165 stores in 71 countries, with 79,517 employees. Its turnover in 2007 was €9.4 billion. -
KingfisherKingfisher is Europe's leading home improvement retail group and the third largest in the world, with leading market positions in the UK, France, Poland, Turkey and China. Sales for the year ended February 2008 were €13.1bn, over 50% of which was generated outside the UK. Adjusted pre-tax profit for the year was €520m. Kingfisher operates over 800 stores in 8 countries in Europe and Asia. Its main retail brands are B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt and Screwfix. Kingfisher also has a 21% interest in, and strategic alliance with, Hornbach, Germany's leading DIY warehouse retailer, with over 120 stores across Europe. -
Marks & SpencerMarks and Spencer operates 665 stores in the UK selling clothing, food and home products. Its international business continues to expand with 291 stores in 40 countries. It also has a growing e-commerce business. M&S employs over 75,000 people and has a turnover of over £9 billion. -
MercadonaMercadona is a family-owned company based in Spain. In 2009, the company had a turnover of € 15.5 billion, with 4.3 million households shopping at their supermarkets. The company has a network of 1,264 shops throughout Spain, with 62,000 employees.
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METRO GroupMETRO Group is one of the largest and most important international retailing companies. In 2008 the Group reached sales of € 68 billion. The company has a headcount of some 300,000 employees and operates more than 2,100 stores in 33 countries. The performance of METRO Group is based on the strength of its sales divisions which operate independently in their respective market segment: Metro/Makro Cash & Carry - the international leader in self-service wholesale, Real hypermarkets, Media Markt and Saturn - European market leader in consumer electronics retailing, and Galeria-Kaufhof department stores.
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Royal AholdRoyal Ahold, with its headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is a value-oriented food retailing operator. Ahold focuses on food retail companies, specialising in format differentiation (hypermarkets to convenience stores) and private label. Ahold operates in 11 countries, with two continental platforms: Europe and the United States. It owns 3,500 stores and 3,000 through joint venture partners, and has over 140,000 employees. In 2007, net sales were €28.2 billion -
TescoTesco is the UK's largest retailer, with revenues of over ₤51 billion. It operates supermarkets (including an expanding non-food business), convenience stores and retailing services - including Tesco Personal Finance and Tesco Mobile - in its core UK market. Tesco has growing overseas operations in Europe, Asia and the USA. It operates over 3,728 stores and employs over 440,000 worldwide.