The Prime 100 Retailers are ranked by previous 52/53-week annual retail gross sales. In nearly all cases, gross sales used to rank corporations are for retail exercise in the USA solely; footnotes are supplied when this isn’t the case.
To reach at U.S. retail gross sales figures, a wide range of estimation strategies are utilized primarily based on publicly disclosed data. For that reason, the figures introduced don’t at all times match the businesses’ official public submitting experiences.
Firm revenues from non-retailing working segments are eliminated until in any other case famous; system-wide gross sales are supplied when the operation is a franchise. Consistent with the methodology utilized in earlier years, rankings get rid of gasoline gross sales at places designated as having a gasoline/fueling station as its major enterprise.
What constitutes a section Energy Participant? Any retailer on this Prime 100 listing with 2022 U.S. gross sales equal to or better than 10 p.c of the gross sales of the class chief.
Choice standards for the U.S. Prime 100 listing relies on Kantar’s Retail IQ built-in analysis methodology:
Retail protection : Greater than 1,000 retail accounts the world over with gross sales and retailer progress by banner forecast out 5 years utilizing firm experiences and Kantar’s projection fashions and analysis strategies that embrace insights developed by Kantar via analysis on the most important retailers and discussions with many trade leaders.
: Greater than 1,000 retail accounts the world over with gross sales and retailer progress by banner forecast out 5 years utilizing firm experiences and Kantar’s projection fashions and analysis strategies that embrace insights developed by Kantar via analysis on the most important retailers and discussions with many trade leaders. Depth of protection : Every main retail account analyzed on the banner and format degree and summarized within the combination for a complete of greater than 4,000 banners.
: Every main retail account analyzed on the banner and format degree and summarized within the combination for a complete of greater than 4,000 banners. Retailer protection : All retailers with $2 billion in annual retail gross sales quantity and key format leaders for Kantar’s core 50 international locations, plus exceptions for impactful retailers with as little as $1 billion annual retail gross sales quantity.
: All retailers with $2 billion in annual retail gross sales quantity and key format leaders for Kantar’s core 50 international locations, plus exceptions for impactful retailers with as little as $1 billion annual retail gross sales quantity. Kantar at present tracks over 1,000 retailers with gross sales in extra of $2 billion yearly. We glean data from retailer and market visits, retailer web sites, trade web sites, information searches in a number of languages, regulatory our bodies, annual experiences, and analyst and retailer convention calls.
This data is streamlined and entered into our database, which permits for environment friendly presentation of solely probably the most related data. Kantar buildings its gross sales estimates across the ROY-BCMF precept — Retailer-Possession-Yr and Banner-Chain Sort-Market-Format — which permits us to current extremely detailed and explanatory evaluation. For every retailer that we enter into the database, we escape gross sales, shops and sq. footage.
Kantar is at all times increasing chain protection to incorporate retailers which might be influential or essential at a rustic degree. When added, these retailers comply with the identical normal because the others — our estimates are finished on a banner-by-banner foundation.
NRF’s Prime 100 contains a number of noteworthy departures from Kantar’s established methodology:
