TOP 5 Retailers IN

THE WORLD

 Presented by

G.Manavu karthick

M.Muthu Vijayan.

D.Bharath kumar.

P.kabil Sarath.
 INTRODOCTION
Ø In 21st century retail business have a
boom growth. They play vital roll to carry the
world selling market.
Ø Retailers are the world largest private
industries.
Ø Today's scenario even though there are
more restrictions made by the governments the
retailers growing rapidly.
 DEFINITION
“A set of activities that adds value to the
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products and services and sold to customers for

their personal or family needs.”

 Profile
Year of establishment : - 1962
Founder : - Sam Walton.
Current CEO : - Mike Duke.
Vision : - Saving people money to
help them live better .
mission : - Offers the best quality
merchandise at the lowest
prices in all their stores from schools supplies
to household item and top quality groceries

Head quarters : - U.S

 Performance
Revenue : - 405$Billion
Outlets : - 8576
Employees : - 21,00,000
Profit : - 4.11$ Billion
NO . of countries : - 15
Formats : - Discount store,
Hyper market,
One stop shopping center
&Supercenters (24hours)
 MILESTONES ( ACHIVEMENTS )
Foreign entry : - 1975
: - 1972 They offered the share
in the New York Stock
Exchange.
Mergers &Acquisition: - 1983 they purchased 123
sam’s club location.
 STRATEGY

Customer Service : Modern technologies used to

understand the customer needs and
satisfaction level.

Future Plans : Wal-mart lays out future plans to

shareholders
: The company expects to add
500,000 new jobs worldwide during the next
five years.

: Wal-Martwill continue to build large

one- stop shopping supercenters
 STRENGTHS
Ø
Ø Wal-Mart is a powerful retail brand. It has a reputation for
value for money, convenience and a wide range of
products all in one store.
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Ø The company has a core competence involving its use of

information technology to support its international
logistics system. For example, it can see how individual
products are performing country-wide, store-by-store at a
glance. IT also supports Wal-Mart's efficient procurement.
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Ø A focused strategy is in place for human resource

management and development.
 WEAKNESSES
Ø Wal-Mart is the World's largest grocery retailer and
control of its empire, despite its IT advantages,
could leave it weak in some areas due to the
huge span of control.
Ø Since Wal-Mart sell products across many sectors
(such as clothing, food, or stationary), it may not
have the flexibility of some of its more focused
competitors.
Ø The company is global, but has a presence in
relatively few countries Worldwide.
Ø
CARREFOUR
 PROFILE
Establishment : 1960
Current CEO : Daniel Benard.
Head quarters : united states.
Global HQ : France.
No of employees : 22,500.
No of retail outlets: 80,000.

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 PERFORMANCE
Revenue : 24.9 billion euros(2010)
Profit : 2.5 billion Euros
No. of countries : 25.
No. of warehouses : 2,000.
Formats : super market.
 Hyper market.
 Discount gasoline outlet.
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 MILESTONE
Ø The concept of hypermarket was invented by
Carrefour.
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Ø Introduction of gasoline outlets.
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Ø One stop shop formula.
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 STRATEGY
Ø Purchasing the item from the local markets.
Ø
Ø The private label product..
Ø
Ø Responsiveness to local needs.
Ø
Ø Location strategy.
Joint ventures:
Through joint ventures it receives 10 to percent

of interest.
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Franchises:
Carrefoure received its 0.2 percent form
franchises..
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METRO AG
 PROFILE

Year of establishment : 1964

Name of the Founder : Beisheim
Chairman : Franz Heniel
Current CEO : Olaf koch
Head Quarters : Germany
Vision : “ Made to Trade”
Mission : Goal is to provide for a long
term appreciation of its corporate value
through profitable and sustained
growth
 PERFOMENCE

Revenue : £65.53 billion

Profit : £383 million
Outlets : 2100
Employees : 300000
No. of counters : 34
No. of warehouses : 2300
Formats : Super markets, Grocery
stores, Convenience stores and
Department stores.
 MILESTONES (ACHIVEMENTS)

1964: otto Beisheim founds Metro SB-Grossmarket, a

wholesale business that become Metro cash & carry.
1968: Metro cash & carry expands to the Netherlands, opening
Makro cash & carry stores.
1993: Beisheim retires from active management of metro and
erwin conradi is appointed president of the Metro holding
board.
1998: Metro Holding merges Asko, Metro cash & carry, and
Allkauf and Kreigbaum hypermarket chain.
1999: Rumors circulate that Wal-Mart will purchase all or part
of Metro and Hans-Joachim Korber is named CEO.
2002: The company’s cash & carry operations expand to
Vietnam.
 STRATEGY

Customer Service : They follow different strategies for

individual customer and commercial customers.

Future Plans:
• The metro group is looking towards expansion in asia and
Europe.
• The metro group may also be commissioned by the german
government to expand operation in to Afghanistan
economically stable north.
• They also split off and floated their Praktiker division in dec
2006
• In June 2009 it was reported that the company was looking to
purchase some of the assets of Arcandor.
 PROFILE
Year of establishment : - 1919 in East London
Name of the Founder : - Sir. John Edward Cohen.
 Born in 6 October 1898
Medway England
 Died on 24 March 1979(aged 80)
Chairman : - David Reid.
Current CEO : - Sir Terry Leahy.
Head Quarters : - Cheshunt, United Kingdom.
Vision : - “Pile it high and sell it cheap”
Mission : - Transfer Quality products &
maximized value to the customers and be
different in the market.
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 PERFOMENCE
Revenue : - £62.54 billion
Profit : - £2 billion
Outlets : - 2482
Employees : - 440,000
No. of counters : - 15 (U. K, China, Czech Republic, France,
Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Poland,
Slovakia, Slovakia, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey &
United States.)
No. of warehouses : - 2000.
Formats : - Tesco Extra,
 Tesco Superstores,
 Tesco Metro
 Tesco Express
 Tesco Home plus & One Stop stores.
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 MILESTONES (ACHIVEMENTS)
 Foreign entry : - 1950.
Mergers &Acquisition: - In May 1987 Tesco completed its hostile takeover

 of the Hillards chain of 40 supermarkets in the

 North of England For £220 million.
: - 1957 The company purchased 70 Williamsons stores, 1959 200 Harrow

Stores outlets, 1960 212 Irwin’sstores, 1964 97 Charles Phillips stores.

: - 1994 the company took over the 57 supermarket chain of William Low,

1997 took Associated British Foods.

: - 1997 Tesco and Esso(part of Exxonmobil) forged a business alliance that

included several petrol filling stations on lease from Esso. In 2002 Tesco
purchased 13 HIT hypermarkets in Poland
: - 2005/2006 they made joint venture with Samsung (Samsung-Tesco Home

plus) in South Korea and Charoen Pokphand in Thailand (Tesco Lotus).

: - In September 2005 Tesco announced that it was selling its operations in

Taiwan to Carrefour and purchasing Carrefour's stores in the Czech

Republic and Slovakia.
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 STRATEGY
Pricing
 : - Tesco have good buying power, when they buy
 direct, to buy cheaper than competitors.
 : - They put tickets on the goods and that shows
the weight, contents, price etc…

Customer Service: - Separate web site for customer service.

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Future Plans : - TESCO want to reduce the packaging price of

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own brand goods

 : - They plan to enter new populated counters.

 Strengths
Ø Strong and close Customer contacts.

Ø Well established R & D, which create new ideas.

Ø Online and of line sites of tesco.

 Weakness
Ø Undifferentiated products and services.

Ø Lack of marketing strategies.

Ø Lack of new technology.

 CONCLUSION
ØThese are the top 5 retailers in the world.
They compete each other and make
competitive advantage through product
and service differentiation.
ØThey have other areas of business and
that help them to stand in the corporate
world.
 REFERANCES
• WEB RESOURCES
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• www.wikipedia.org
• www.walmart.com
• www.carrefourgroups.com
• www.metrogroup.de
• www.tesco.com
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