Top Retail Industry Competitors

Cooperative Tradeka Corporation

Retail and hospitality group Cooperative Tradeka operates through two primary subsidiaries: Tradeka Ltd. (grocery, convenience, and other retail stores) and Restel Oy Ltd. (hotels, bars, and restaurants)....

Finatis

Finatis finesses its way through a variety of operations. Finatis leases shopping malls in France and Poland through Fonciere Euris. That subsidiary also has a significant interest in RALLYE. Through Euristates, Finatis has interests in US property investment funds....

Fingerhut Direct Marketing, Inc.

You might say this company lets your fingers do the shopping. Fingerhut Direct Marketing is a leading catalog retailer offering a broad line of private-label and brand-name merchandise, including apparel, appliances, electronics, health and beauty products, home furnishings, jewelry, toys, kitchen wares, luggage, and sporting goods....

Gmarket Inc.

GMARKET is in the market to make some G's. The company primarily runs an online auction marketplace that allows sellers and buyers to hook up. GMARKET's marketplace boasts some 13.7 million users. The company offers more than 4 million items for sale among some 37 product categories, including apparel, computers, consumer electronics, furniture, jewelry, and personal care products....

Home Shopping Network, Inc.

There's no need to worry about normal business hours when shopping from this retailer. HSN (known to night owls and from-the-couch shoppers as Home Shopping Network) operates a home shopping television network that reaches more than 90 million US homes. HSN offers computers; electronics; fashion items; home and kitchen goods; jewelry; and health, beauty, and fitness products....

IAC/InterActiveCorp

IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC) satisfies inquisitive minds who want to explore local hot spots, meet the right partner, find a contractor, and maybe even host a party or two. The Internet conglomerate owns more than 35 Web companies, including search engine Ask.com, local guide Citysearch, dating site Match.com, home service provider network ServiceMagic, and online-invitation firm Evite....

Kintetsu Corporation

Kintetsu is best known for its railroad operations, but the company's businesses run on multiple tracks. Its nearly 2,000 railcars run on about 500 km of track and transport more than 1,600 people daily. Kintetsu shuttles commuters and tourists between Osaka, Nara, Kyoto, and Nagoya....

Meikles Africa Limited

Meikles Africa provides some nice accommodations in "stone building." The company is a hospitality and retail group operating properties in several major cities across Zimbabwe (which means "stone building" in the Shona language) and in South Africa. The group's businesses include department-stores operating as Meikles, Barbours, and Greatermans; the TM Supermarkets chain; and the Zimbabwean franchise for Clicks Store pharmacies....

Mitiska NV

Mitiska, a holding company, wants its customers to have more fun and adventure through retail. Mitiska's portfolio of companies includes Fun Belgium NV, a retail chain that sells toys, seasonal items, and baby products, as well as the Brantano Group, which focuses on adult and children's shoes and accessories....

PPR SA

PPR has transformed itself from a conglomerate to the world's third-largest luxury group. PPR's stable of luxury brands includes a 99% stake in Italian luxury goods company Gucci Group, and luxury brands Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Boucheron, Bottega Veneta, Stella McCartney, and the Yves Saint Laurent, among others....

SHOP.COM

SHOP.COM lets Web browsers do it till they drop. The company pulls together more than 10 million products from hundreds of merchants (including Macy's, PETCO, and Harry and David), making them available to consumers in a single, convenient Internet-based location....

SourceForge, Inc.

This company is fanning the flames of the open source software movement. SourceForge (formerly VA Software) produces Web sites aimed primarily at open source software developers and other technology enthusiasts. The company's Web sites include SourceForge.net (an online collaborative development site), Slashdot.org (technology news), and Freshmeat.net (open source software directory)....

Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta

Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta (SOK Corporation) knows a thing or two (or 1,400) about retail. The Finnish group is active in grocery, service station store, fuel, department store,

specialty goods, hotel and restaurant, auto trade, and hardware services via 1,400 locations in its home country and throughout the Baltic nations....

Dunelm Group Limited

Dunelm Group provides Britons with finishing touches for the loos and lounges of their bungalows, bedsits, and flats. The company sells a broad selection of household goods and furnishings from its more than 80 Dunelm Mill retail stores located across the UK....

Federation of Migros Cooperatives

The Swiss have a name for diversification: Federation of Migros Cooperatives (Migros or FCM). Composed of 10 regional cooperatives, the company owns 18 food and beverage manufacturing operations, is the #1 retailer (ahead of Coop), and is the largest employer in Switzerland....

Orchard Brands

Orchard Brands (formerly Appleseed's Topco) is a regular garden grove of retail. The direct-to-consumer retailer owns 10 mail-order businesses that target the 55+ senior demographic. Its catalogs offer apparel, accessories, and shoes, as well as home and garden products....

Pet Valu, Inc.

Pet Valu wants you to admit to yourself how much you value the companionship of Fido, Precious, Rex, Princess, and every thoroughbred and mutt pet in between, through your purchase of food and other supplies at its stores. The company operates pet product retail stores (some 355 company-owned stores, of those 205 are franchised) in Canada and the US....

Tokyu Corporation

Retail and transportation are the driving engines powering Tokyu Corporation's revenues. Tokyu's retail operations, including Tokyu Department Store, generate most of its sales, and its railway company carries some 2.5 million passengers daily on about 100 km of track, mainly across south-central Japan....