15 Companies in Retail

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Amazon

Ubiquitous and mammoth, yet the epitome of inexpensive convenience, this digital mall is one of the few companies that can say that it truly touches nearly every person in the U.S. Started in 1994 by Ivy League ex-hedge funder Jeff Bezos, Amazon...

Sephora

Sephora founder Dominique Mandonnaud began her now world-renowned beauty business with an idea on how to make the beauty-buying experience far better. She began a fragrance shop called Shop 8 in 1969 that offered an open layout in which...

ALDI

ALDI is a grocery store company that first opened its doors in Germany in 1961. The Albrecht family founded the grocery store with aims to simplify the grocery store experience and offer far lower prices than competitors. Today, ALDI’s...

Chewy

Chewy was founded by Ryan Cohen and Michael Day in 2011 when both entrepreneurs were just in their early twenties. The company is an online pet supply store that sells everything from toys to food to medicine for dogs, cats, fish, birds, small...

Uniqlo Co.

UNIQLO is an international clothing retailer that has a specialized knack for designing apparel that lasts. The simple, basics-inspired clothing created at UNIQLO continues to be successful trend cycle after trend cycle, season after season. The...

Starbucks Corporation

Inspired by late-1960s counterculture thinking (and named after a character in the novel Moby Dick ), Starbucks began in 1971 as a solitary niche store in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market. Today, the company’s stores are utterly...

Dick's Sporting Goods

Dick Stack was just eighteen years old when he had the first bright ideas for what would become Dick’s Sporting Goods. In 1948, Stack was working at an Army surplus store in Binghamton, New York, and suggested to his boss to include fishing...

Walmart Inc.

Founded in Arkansas in 1962 by brothers Sam and James “Bud” Walton, Walmart Inc. is a chain of stores, usually very large in size (referred to as “supercenters” or “hypermarkets” in company lingo), that sells everything: clothing, fragrance,...

Foot Locker

Foot Locker’s success as a business and company really finds origins in its success as a brand. The company began as just a single brand of the F.W. Woolworth Company in 1974. Over the next 25 years, Foot Locker became the leading brand in the...

American Eagle Outfitters

American Eagle Outfitters, commonly known as American Eagle, has been a fixture in youth fashion for nearly 50 years. The first store opened its doors in Novi, Michigan, in 1977. In its early days, American Eagle was a brand under the company...