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The Top 25 Mobile Electronics Retailers

By Staff On May 17 2004 - 6:00am

RANK 2003	RANK 2002	Store Type (a)	Store Name	2003	EST. 2002	% Change 2003/2002	2003	EST. 2002
				Estimated CE Sales (b) in $ millions			Number of Stores (c)
1	1	EA/N	Best Buy Richfield, Minn.	$490	$458	7.0%	608	548
2	2	EO/L	Circuit City Seattle, Wash.	350	378	-7.4	604	626
3	3	MM	Wal-Mart Bentonville, Ark.	240	185	29.7	1,471*	1,258*
4	4	MS/ME/AO	Audio Express Scottsdale, Ariz.	120	117	2.6	46	46
5	5	MS/ME/AO	Car Toys Seattle, Wash.	110	99	11.1	59	57
6	6	EO/L	Tweeter Home Entertainment Canton, Mass.	91	96	-5.2	161	158
7	7	CD/MO	Crutchfield Charlottesville, Va.	84	82	2.4	2	2
8	9	EO/L	Ultimate Electronics Thornton, Colo.	64	63	1.1	65	58
9	8	EO/L	Good Guys Alamida, Calif.	57	68	-15.1	72	71
10	11	EA/N	Fry's Electronics San Jose, Calif.	48	45	5.6	25	22
11	10	MM	Sears Hoffman Estates, Ill.	47	63	-25.4	1,663	1,632
12	12	MM	Target Minneapolis, Minn.	38	37	2.7	1,225	1,147
13	13	MS/ME/AO	Mickey Shorr Pontiac, Mich.	36	33	9.1	10	16
14	15	WC	Costco Wholesale Issaquah, Wash.	31	29	6.9	317	304
15	16	EA/R	ABC Appliance Pontiac, Mich.	25	23	8.7	47	38
16	14	MM	Kmart Troy, Mich.	24	31	-22.6	1,511	1,827
17	18	HF	American TV & Appliance Madison, Wis.	22	22	2.5	11	10
18	19	MS/ME/AO	Al & Ed's Autosound Van Nuys, Calif.	21	21	0.0	30	30
19	20	EA/N	Rex Stores Dayton, Ohio	19	19	-0.3	248	255
20	21	EA/R	H.H. Gregg Indianapolis, Ind.	17	17	1.3	54	47
21	22	EA/M	J&R Computer World New York, N.Y.	14	16	-8.0	1	1
22	23	CD/TV	QVC West Chester, Pa.	12	14	-12.7	1	1
23	24	MS/ME/AO	Custom Sounds Austin, Texas	11	12	-5.2	16	16
24	17	MS/ME/AO	Mobile-One Auto Sound Metairie, La.	11	22	-50.0	5	10
25	NR	HF	Nebraska Furniture Mart Omaha, Neb.	9	7	22.0	2	1
			Total Top 25	1,992	1,956	1.8%	8,254	8,181
NR = Not ranked last year. NA = Not applicable. (a) Most store type codes were developed jointly by TWICE and the Consumer Electronics Association. (b) All sales information, except for that supplied by publicly held companies that break out line-of-business sales for consumer electronics, is based on TWICE estimates. (c) Represents only stores carrying consumer electronics. * Mobile Electronics are predominantly sold at Wal-Mart Supercenters (discount + grocery) vs. the smaller Wal-Mart (discount, non-grocery) stores. Sam's Club is a separate entity and excluded. In 2003, the split was 1,471 Supercenters to 1,478 Wal-Mart stores. In 2002, the split was 1,258 Supercenters to 1,568 Wal-Mart stores. CD/MO = Consumer direct/Mail order CD/TV = Consumer direct/TV shopping EA/M = Electronics/Appliance stores/One-market EA/N = Electronics/Appliance stores/Multi-regional EA/R = Electronics/Appliance stores/Regional EO/L = Electronics-only stores/Chains with five or more stores HF = Home furnishings stores MM = Mass merchants MS/ME/AO = Miscellaneous/Mobile electronics store/Auto only WC = Warehouse clubs Source: TWICE Market Research © TWICE 2004