By Christopher Daniel and Dr. Tony Hernandez

This report provides insight into the trends and strategies of Canada’s Top 130 retail corporations for Fiscal 2012. This twelfth edition of ‘Canada’s Leading Retailers’ is structured by the retail categories of the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) and reflects the CSCA’s on-going focus on corporate strategy. The report details the varying levels of corporate concentration across retail sectors in Canada, provides contrasts between indigenous and foreign retail strategies, and comments on the resulting impact upon the retail landscape. It provides profiles of the major retail corporations by sector with information on market share. The report is made possible by the CSCA’s corporate data collection activities. The resulting data resource, the CSCA Major Retail Chain Database, provides unique insight into the locational strategies of major retail chains operating across Canada. Through the longitudinal collection of such data the CSCA will continue to monitor, track and report on the changes in Canadian corporate concentration and retail store segmentation.