Target Corporation is an American retail corporation. It is the 8th-largest retailer in the United States, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. It is unrelated to Target Australia.
Target established itself as the day time division of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation in the 1970s; it began expanding the store nationwide in the 1980s and introduced new store formats under the Target brand in the 1990s. The company has found success as a cheap-chic player in the industry. The parent company was renamed the Target Corporation in 2000 and divested itself of its last department store chains in 2004.
(source: wikipedia.org)
| Main color | #E50024 |
| Current version year | 2004 |
| Country | Minnesota, USA |
| Market | NYSE: TGT, S&P 500 |
| Brand Site | www.target.com |