According to the Kantar Retail ranking of the top 50 global retailers, Walmart, Carrefour (despite a reduction in the CAGR – compound annual growth rate – of 3% for the period 2009-2014) and Costco are reconfirmed at the top, while Tesco exits the select group of the top five. The distance between Walmart, which recorded sales of over 512 billion, and the other two leaders whose sales amounted to just over 115 billion dollars, is significant.
Kantar sticks its neck out by providing an annual growth forecast for the period 2014-2019: while for Carrefour it is of the order of 3%, for Costco it is 7%. An exchange of positions, therefore, could be imminent.
As for the other highlights, the Russian Magnit and Canada’s Loblaw’s record the highest increase in position in the ranking, while Sears, Morrisons and Safeway are the retailers who fall most significantly.
Analysing the data, rather striking is the presence of Amazon which, with more than 87 billion in turnover, recorded an annual growth of 30% between 2009 and 2014, destined, according to the Kantar forecasts, to fall to 13%.
To stay in Europe, Tesco is feeling the pinch and exits the select group of the big five, replaced by the German Schwarz Group (Lidl), along with the Metro Group which, during the five years in question, suffered a decrease CAGR of 1%, and the Dutch Ahold with an annual decrease of 4% per year and which is in negotiations with Delhaize for a possible merger.
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