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Reportlinker Adds Global Top 10 Food Retailers Industry, Financial and SWOT Analysis


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NEW YORK, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Global Top 10 Food Retailers Industry, Financial and SWOT Analysis

http://www.reportlinker.com/p0201798/Global-Top-10-Food-Retailers--Industry-Financial-and-SWOT-Analysis.html

Introduction

The food retail industry consists of revenues generated through food sales from supermarkets, hypermarkets, cooperatives, discounters, convenience stores, independent grocers, bakers, butchers, fishmongers and all other retailers of food and drink.

Scope

*Performance of the global food retail market on the basis of sales, volume and respective growth patterns over the past five years

*Obtain descriptive profiles of the top ten leading players including strategic initiatives undertaken in the last 12 months

*Analysis of the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of the top 10 food retail companies along with business overview and financials

*Benchmark the performance of the top 10 players for the past five years; includes revenue comparison, profitability analysis, industry-specific ratios

Highlights

The global food retail industry generated total revenues of $3,657.6 billion in 2008, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.6% for the period spanning 200408.

Supermarket sales proved the most lucrative for the global food retail industry in 2008, generating total revenues of $1,335 billion, equivalent to 36.5% of the industry's overall value.

The performance of the industry is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 4.7% for the five-year period 200813, which is expected to drive the industry to a value of $4,602.6 billion by the end of 2013.

Reasons to Purchase

*Save time, money and resources on analyzing the top 10 food retail companies using this report

*Analyze the global food retail market with key industry metrics including market value, market volume, and growth forecasts

*Assess the intensity of competition based on the 5-forces model including degree of rivalry, substitutes, new entrants, buyer power and supplier power

Table of Contents 2

FIGURES 3

TABLES 4

Executive Summary 5

Industry analysis 5

Industry definition 5

Global top 10 food retail companies 5

Market Value 6

Market Segmentation-Category 7

Market Segmentation-Geography 8

Five Forces Analysis 9

Five Forces Analysis 9

Summary 9

Buyer power 11

Supplier power 13

New entrants 14

Substitutes 15

Rivalry 16

Global Top 10 Companies Landscape 17

Global Top 10 Companies Landscape 17

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 18

Carrefour S.A. 18

Metro AG 18

Tesco Plc 18

Kroger Co., The 19

Auchan Groupe SA 19

Aeon Co., Ltd. 19

Seven & I Holdings Co. Ltd. 19

Supervalu Inc. 19

Safeway Inc. 19

Revenue analysis 20

Financial performance analysis 21

Operating profit analysis 22

Net profit analysis 23

Ratio analysis 24

Current ratio 24

Return on assets 24

Debt equity ratio 24

Inventory turnover ratio 25

Company Reports 26

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 26

Company overview 26

Business description 26

SWOT analysis 27

Strengths 27

Weaknesses 28

Opportunities 29

Threats 29

Recent developments 30

Carrefour S.A. 31

Company overview 31

Business description 31

SWOT analysis 32

Strengths 32

Weaknesses 32

Opportunities 33

Threats 33

Recent developments 34

Metro AG 35

Company overview 35

Business description 35

SWOT analysis 35

Strengths 35

Weaknesses 36

Opportunities 36

Threats 37

Recent developments 37

Tesco Plc 38

Company overview 38

Business description 38

SWOT analysis 38

Strengths 38

Weaknesses 39

Opportunities 39

Threats 40

Recent developments 40

Kroger Co., The 41

Company overview 41

Business description 41

SWOT analysis 42

Strengths 42

Weaknesses 43

Opportunities 43

Threats 44

Recent developments 45

Auchan Groupe SA 46

Company overview 46

Business description 46

SWOT analysis 47

Strengths 47

Weaknesses 48

Opportunities 48

Threats 48

Recent developments 49

Aeon Co., Ltd. 50

Company overview 50

Business description 50

SWOT analysis 50

Strengths 50

Weaknesses 51

Opportunities 51

Threats 52

Recent developments 52

Seven & I Holdings Co. Ltd. 54

Company overview 54

Business description 54

SWOT analysis 55

Strengths 55

Weaknesses 55

Opportunities 55

Threats 56

Recent developments 57

Supervalu Inc. 58

Company overview 58

Business description 58

SWOT analysis 59

Strengths 59

Weaknesses 59

Opportunities 60

Threats 60

Recent developments 61

Safeway Inc. 62

Company overview 62

Business description 62

SWOT analysis 62

Strengths 62

Weaknesses 63

Opportunities 63

Threats 64

Recent developments 64

Financial Analysis 66

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 66

Carrefour S.A. 69

Metro AG 72

Tesco Plc 75

Kroger Co., The 78

Auchan Groupe SA 81

Aeon Co., Ltd. 84

Seven & I Holdings Co. Ltd 87

Supervalu Inc. 90

Safeway Inc. 93

Appendix 96

List of Tables

Table 1: Global food retail industry value, $ billion, 2004-08 6

Table 2: Global food retail industry segmentation-category, % share, by value, 2008 7

Table 3: Global food retail industry segmentation-geography, % share, by value, 2008 8

Table 4: Turnover of global top 10 food retailers, $ million, 2008 17

Table 5: Revenue growth of global top 10 food retailers, 2006-08 20

Table 6: Key financials of global top 10 food retailers, 2008 21

Table 7: Key industry-specific ratios, 2008 24

Table 8: Wal-Mart-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (1) 66

Table 9: Wal-Mart-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (2) 67

Table 10: Wal-Mart-Key industry specific ratios, 2005-09 68

Table 11: Carrefour-Financial and operational highlights, 2004-08 ($ million) (1) 69

Table 12: Carrefour-Financial and operational highlights, 2004-08 ($ million) (2) 70

Table 13: Carrefour-Key industry specific ratios, 2004-08 71

Table 14: Metro-Financial and operational highlights, 2004-08 ($ million) (1) 72

Table 15: Metro-Financial and operational highlights, 2004-08 ($ million) (2) 73

Table 16: Metro-Key industry specific ratios, 2004-08 74

Table 17: Tesco-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (1) 75

Table 18: Tesco-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (2) 76

Table 19: Tesco-Key industry specific ratios, 2005-09 77

Table 20: Kroger-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (1) 78

Table 21: Kroger-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (2) 79

Table 22: Kroger-Key Industry Specific Ratios, 2005-09 80

Table 23: Auchan-Financial and operational highlights, 2004-08 ($ million) (1) 81

Table 24: Auchan-Financial and operational highlights, 2004-08 ($ million) (2) 82

Table 25: Auchan-Key industry specific ratios, 2004-08 83

Table 26: Aeon-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (1) 84

Table 27: Aeon-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (2) 85

Table 28: Aeon-Key industry specific ratios, 2005-09 86

Table 29: Seven & I-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (1) 87

Table 30: Seven & I-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (2) 88

Table 31: Seven & I-Key industry specific ratios, 2005-09 89

Table 32: Supervalu-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (1) 90

Table 33: Supervalu-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (2) 91

Table 34: Supervalu-Key industry specific ratios, 2005-09 92

Table 35: Safeway-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (1) 93

Table 36: Safeway-Financial and operational highlights, 2005-09 ($ million) (2) 94

Table 37: Safeway-Key industry specific ratios, 2005-09 95

List of Figures

Figure 1: Global food retail industry value, $ billion, 2004-08 6

Figure 2: Global food retail industry segmentation-category, % share, by value, 2008 7

Figure 3: Global food retail industry segmentation-geography, % share, by value, 2008 8

Figure 4: Forces driving competition in the global food retail industry, 2008 9

Figure 5: Drivers of buyer power in the global food retail industry, 2008 11

Figure 6: Drivers of supplier power in the global food retail industry, 2008 13

Figure 7: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the global food retail industry, 2008 14

Figure 8: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the global food retail industry, 2008 15

Figure 9: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the global food retail industry, 2008 16

Figure 10: Turnover of global top 10 food retailers, $ million, 2008 18

Figure 11: Revenue growth rates of global top 10 food retailers, 2006-08 21

Figure 12: Operating profit analysis of global top 10 food retailers, 2008 22

Figure 13: Net profit analysis of global top 10 food retailers, 2008 23

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