I am looking for a listing of the Top Convenience Stores/Chains in
Europe overall as well as a breakdown of the Top 5 stores for each of
the following countries: Germany, France, Italy & the U.K. Need
listings to be ranked by sales.

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Clarification of Question by love2research-ga on 09 Aug 2002 13:49 PDT

To clarify question, I am looking for an overall Top 20 listing for
Europe and at least the Top 5 listings for the above mentioned
countries.
I know there are companies that have a variety of classifications, ie:
some Discount Stores and Grocery stores can have a Convenience Stores
as well. That fine, as long as the lists are ranked by Convenience
Store sales, not overall company sales.
I have the Top 200 Global Retailers ranking, but that's overall sales.
I would like a more specific ranking by just Convenience Store sales,
if possible. Would also prefer that for the Top 5 listings that the
company's are based from that country, but if that's not the case,
then that's fine.

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Request for Question Clarification by claudietta-ga on 05 Sep 2002 03:11 PDT

Dear Love2Research,

I can find the top listing of those that own and operate convenience
stores, but cannot find the direct convenience store sales.

For example, these are the top participants of convenience store sales
(by gross revenues)
1. Kroger Co.  (Cincinnati, OH )  
2. Ito-Yokado Co Ltd  (Japan)  
3. Daiei Inc (Japan)
4. Aeon Co Ltd (Japan)
5. VEBA Oel AG (Germany)

If this interests you, let me know ASAP,
Claudietta

Dear love2research:

Seedy-ga pointed out that these figures do not break down the sales
revenue by country. I realize now that you probably wanted the rank by
sales within a single country. I have written to ask the Google to
pull all my answers, if they have not done so already by the time you
read this. I have found reports that can answer your question,
unfortunately they ask a couple of hundred Euros altogether, so I'll
just point them your way:

http://www.planetretail.net

Best Regards,
blader-ga 

PS. If Google has already pulled my answer by the time you read this,
just ask and I'll post my original answer as a comment.

Please also note that these are not "convenience stores" as such, but
are mostly grocery stores.

alex_p:

These are actually companies who are known to run "convenience
stores", in addition to other formats.

Best Regards,
blader-ga

blader:
I just wanted to point out to love2research that this is not "a
listing of the Top Convenience Stores/Chains". The question sounds
like it asked for the store names, rather than the companies, and I
wanted to clarify that.
alex_p