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Costco
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Costco Wholesale Corporation is an active company and funder based in Issaquah, Washington, United States. It is also known by the aliases Costco and Costco Wholesale. The organization was established on January 1, 1983.
The entity is recognized in the Sp 500 collection. Its legal name is COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION, and it operates under the jurisdiction of US-WA. The company employs 316000 people.
Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, ROR, GLEIF, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Costco Wholesale Corporation
- Company.logo
- Costco Wholesale logo 2010-10-26.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 260px
- Company.logo_caption
- Logo since 1997
- Company.image
- Costcoheadquarters.jpg
- Company.image_size
- 250px
- Company.image_caption
- Building 1 at Costco's headquarters campus in Issaquah, Washington
- Company.type
- Public company
- Company.foundation
- in Seattle
- Company.location_city
- Issaquah, Washington
- Company.location_country
- United States
- Company.num_locations
- 924
- Company.num_locations_year
- 2026
- Company.area_served
- North America: Rest of the world:
- Company.industry
- Retail
- Company.brands
- Kirkland Signature
- Company.revenue
- billion
- Company.revenue_year
- 2025
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Location
- Issaquah, United States
- Also known as
- Costco, Costco Wholesale Corporation
- Status
- Active
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Part of
- S&P 500
- Official name
- Costco Wholesale Corporation
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Jeffrey Brotman
- Headquarters
- Issaquah
- Industry
- retail
- Employees
- 316000
- Revenue
- 275235000000
- Stock exchange
- Nasdaq
- Country of origin
- United States
- Official website
- mobility.costco.ca
- Image
- Costcoheadquarters.jpg
- Has parts of class
- warehouse club
Show 15 more facts
- Commons category
- Costco
- inception
- 1983-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Costco
- location of formation
- Kirkland
- operating income
- 10383000000
- different from
- China Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd.
- net profit
- 8099000000
- total assets
- 68994000000
- product or material produced
- cash and carry
- social media followers
- 62460
- market capitalization
- 225200000000
- location information URL
- www.costco.com/w/-/locations
- total equity
- 25058000000
- operating area
- Canada
- external auditor
- KPMG
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
50 sectionsContents
- History
- Price Club
- Costco opens
- The "PriceCostco" merger
- Other company milestones
- Costco today
- Locations
- Warehouses in mixed-use development
- Largest and smallest warehouses
- Costco Business Centers
- Locations
- Costco Home Showroom
- Finances
- Sales volume
- Ownership
- Business model
- Sales model
- Management model
- Online shopping
- Products
- Alcohol
- Books
- Gold and platinum bullion products
- Kirkland Signature
- Publications
- ''Costco Connection''
- Services
- Concierge service
- Costco Auto and Home Insurance
- Costco Optical
- Costco Travel
- Food service
- Costco credit card
- Costco Audiobook App
- Labor relations
- Employee rights
- Contractors
- Discontinued concepts
- Costco Home
- Costco Fresh
- Controversies
- Animal welfare
- Environmental standards
- Labor standards
- Pharmacies
- Product quality
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
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Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American multinational corporation that operates a chain of membership-only big-box warehouse club retail stores. As of 2021, Costco is the third-largest retailer in the world, and as of August 2024, the world's largest retailer of beef, poultry, organic produce, and wine, with just under a third of American consumers regularly shopping at Costco warehouses. , Costco is ranked 12th on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Costco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.