Largest retailer
- Who
- Walmart Inc.
- What
- 500,343,000,000 US dollar(s)
- Where
- United States (Bentonville)
- When
- 2018
The world's largest retailer is Walmart Inc., with total global revenues of $500.3 billion - primarily comprised of net sales of $495.8 billion - for the 2018 fiscal year. The company was founded by Samuel Moore Walton and James Lawrence Walton on 2 July 1962 and is headquartered in Bentonville, Arizona, USA. By January 2018, Walmart had 11,718 outlets in 28 countries, operating under 59 different names – although 76% of sales take place in the USA – and employed over 2.3 million staff.