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Target Corporation
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American retailer and supermarket chain
OverviewAI-generated
Target Corporation is an active company and funder based in Minneapolis, United States. The organization was established in 1902, with an inception date also recorded as 1962. Its stylized name appears as "TARGET" or "target". The company employs 400,000 people and reported a total revenue of 109,120,000,000. Its operating income was 8,946,000,000, while net profit figures include 2,488,000,000, 2,920,000,000, 2,929,000,000, and 2,999,000,000.
The corporation maintains an official website at target.com and a corporate blog at tech.target.com. It has 2,154,099 social media followers and holds an Alexa rank of 380. Target is referenced by 4,202 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Formerly
- Goodfellow Dry Goods (1902–1903) Dayton's Dry Goods Company (1903–1910) Dayton Company (1910–1962) Dayton Corporation (1962–1969) Dayton-Hudson Corporation (1969–2000)
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- NYSE : TGT S&P 500 component
- Industry
- Retail
- Founded
- June 24, 1902 ; 123 years ago ( 1902-06-24 ) (corporation) May 1, 1962 ; 64 years ago ( 1962-05-01 ) (store)
- Founders
- George Dayton (corporation) Douglas Dayton and John Geisse (store)
- Headquarters
- Target Plaza Minneapolis , Minnesota, U.S.
- Number of locations
- 1,995 stores (2026)
- Area served
- United States, Canada (formerly, see Target Canada )
- Key people
- Brian Cornell (executive chairman) Michael Fiddelke (CEO)
- Revenue
- US$104.8 billion (2025)
- Operating income
- US$5.117 billion (2025)
- Net income
- US$3.705 billion (2025)
- Total assets
- US$59.49 billion (2025)
- Total equity
- US$16.17 billion (2025)
- Number of employees
- 415,000 (2025)
- Parent
- Dayton Corporation (1962–1969) Dayton-Hudson Corporation (1969–2000)
- Subsidiaries
- Shipt
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1902
- Location
- Minneapolis, United States
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- S&P 100
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- George Dayton
- Headquarters
- Minneapolis
- Industry
- big-box store
- Employees
- 400000
- Revenue
- 109120000000
- Stock exchange
- New York Stock Exchange
- Official website
- www.target.com
- Image
- Target2398.jpg
Show 17 more facts
- inception
- 1902-06-24
- Commons category
- Target Corporation
- topic's main category
- Category:Target Corporation
- web feed URL
- corporate.target.com/article/all/feed
- Alexa rank
- 360
- different from
- Target Australia
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- member of
- Linux Foundation
- social media followers
- 662000
- official jobs URL
- corporate.target.com/careers
- official blog URL
- tech.target.com
- official shop URL
- www.target.com
- stylized name
- target
- contact page URL
- contactus.target.com
- net profit
- 2780000000
- nickname
- Taj-jay
- operating income
- 3848000000
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Encyclopedic overview
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Target operates retail stores. It is the eighth-largest retailer in the United States and is a component of the S&P 500 Index.
The original Target retail store was co-founded by John Geisse and Douglas Dayton in 1962 for Dayton's in Roseville, Minnesota. Dayton's was renamed the Target Corporation in 2000. Target is notable for its focus on upscale, trend-forward merchandise at lower costs. Its stores typically sell general merchandise. Target's logo refers to the center of a shooting target, and its canine mascot is named Bullseye. The corporation also operates two criminal forensics laboratories.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Target Corporation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.