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Premium Company Profile - Costco Wholesale Corp (Datamonitor)
- Market: Retail
- Published Date: 12/02/2008
- Report Title: Premium Company Profile - Costco Wholesale Corp
- Table of Contents: View Table of Contents
- Report Type: Company Profile
- Country: Global
- Number of Pages: 41
Introduction
Costco Wholesale Corporation has redesigned the home page of its website, Costco.com, and has upgraded it to make it more user friendly. The site features a new category and sub-category design, enhanced site search, better images, and zoom technology. It has added a new 'build-to-order' diamond ring program. Costco has also expanded its sporting goods, houseware, baby and gourmet food categories.
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Contains corporate strategy, value chain presence and SWOT Analysis Provides detailed business description, segment analysis, 5-year financial trends, key products and key competitors Includes information on suppliers/ partners, shareholding structure and key employees with biographies
Highlights
Costco Wholesale Corporation operates membership warehouses. As of October 2007, Costco operated about 522 warehouses of which 387 were located in the US, 71 in Canada, 19 in the UK, five in Korea, six in Japan and four in Taiwan. The company also operates about 30 warehouses in Mexico through a 50% joint venture.
Costco Wholesale Corporation also operates two other retail formats: Costco Home, and Costco Business Center. Costco Home offers a variety of furnishings and decor products. Costco Business Centers give the customer the option of either purchasing directly at the warehouse or ordering from the Business Center catalog or website.
Costco Wholesale Corporation's reportable segment is based on the geographic operations of the company. The company generates revenues primarily through three segments: the US operations (80% of the total segment revenues during fiscal year 2007), Canadian operations (13.6%), and other international operations (6.4%).
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