19 Companies in Retail

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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...

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...

Chewy

Chewy was founded by Ryan Cohen and Michael Day in 2011, when they were 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 pets, reptiles,...

CVS Health

CVS Health, a U.S. healthcare company, owns CVS Pharmacy, a retail pharmacy chain; CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager; and Aetna, a health insurance provider, among many other brands. The Woonsocket, RI-based business is the world's 7th...

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...

FedEx

FedEx was born out of a college paper written by founder Frederick W. Smith at Yale in 1965. Smith wrote a paper about the need for a new shipping industry to optimize urgent shipping needs, especially for air freight shippers. His system...

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...

Nike

While this company’s “swoosh” is now one of the most familiar symbols in the world, the Eugene, OR-based company—co-founded by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964—got its start as a distributor of Japanese running shoes;...

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...

Starbucks

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...