Editor's Note: Announcing Total Retail’s 8th Annual Top 100 Fastest-Growing Retailers List
Total Retail is excited to present its eighth annual ranking of the 100 fastest-growing publicly traded retailers. This year’s list, as in years past, is based on companies’ year-over-year net sales growth, comparing the 2017 fiscal year to the 2016 fiscal year.
For the first time in the eight years that Total Retail has complied this list, a beauty brand, Coty, took the top spot. The brand saw a 75.9 percent year-over-year sales increase, growing from $4.4 billion in FY 2016 to $7.7 billion in FY 2017. To what does Coty attribute its sales growth? According to the report, the growth is largely due to its purchase of 41 Procter & Gamble beauty brands, including Gucci fragrances, CoverGirl cosmetics and Max Factor makeup. The acquisition made Coty the world’s third-biggest cosmetics company and the largest in fragrance.
Rounding out the top 5 fastest-growing publicly traded retailers are:
- Gaiam, the seller and manufacturer of premium yoga mats, yoga props, yoga clothing and yoga accessories saw its year-over-year sales increase 64 percent, from $17.2 million in FY16 to $28.3 million in FY17
- Wayfair, the online home furnishings brand, came in third by posting a sales increase of 40 percent, from $3.4 billion to $4.7 billion between FY16 and FY17
- Floor & Décor, a multichannel specialty retailer of hard surface flooring and related accessories that was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Smyrna, Ga., took fourth with a 32 percent sales increase year-over-year, boosting revenues to $1.3 billion this year vs. $1.0 billion in FY16
- Taking fifth was Amazon.com, the online behemoth, which saw its sales increase 31 percent in FY17, growing from $136 billion in FY16 to $178 billion in FY17.
In addition to providing the rankings of the top 100 fastest-growing retailers by net sales, we’ve also chosen a select few businesses to profile in the report, including Coty. What's more, we’ve also tracked the year-over-year net earnings for these same 100 companies and ranked them accordingly. Pair this earnings research with the sales data to get a more in-depth view into not only which retailers are growing sales, but which are leading the way in driving profits as well. Dive into this resource to uncover the tactics used by these leading retailers to drive sales gains, and see what can be incorporated into your own business.
Download Total Retail's eighth annual Top 100 Fastest-Growing Retailers list here!
