About Target Corporation Common Stock
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Target operates small-format and large-format retail stores and hypermarkets. It is the eighth-largest retailer in the U.S. and a component of the S&P 500 Index. The original Target retail store was co-founded as a discount retailer by John Geisse and Douglas Dayton in 1962 for department store Dayton's in Roseville, Minnesota. Dayton's was renamed Target Corporation in 2000. Target is notable for its focus on upscale, trend-forward merchandise at lower costs.