TARGET

TARGET. The Target Corporation, originally the Dayton Dry Goods Company and later the Dayton Hudson Corporation, is an American retailing company, founded in 1902 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2013 it was the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, Walmart being the largest. The company was ranked 36th on the Fortune 500 as of 2013 and was a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Its bullseye trademark is licensed to Wesfarmers, owners of the separate Target Australia chain which is unrelated to Target Corporation.

The first Target store was opened in 1962 in Roseville, Minnesota. Target grew and eventually became the largest division of Dayton Hudson Corporation, culminating in the company being renamed as Target Corporation in August 2000. In 2013, Target expanded into Canada and now operates nearly 100 locations through its Canadian subsidiary.

In 1993 the Dubuque Target store reduced the amount of waste it sent to the landfill by 85%. This earned the store the Governor's Waste Reduction Award of 1993 in the non-manufacturing category. Among the ways the store achieved the honor was to donate damaged cans of pet food to the DUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY, reusing anti-theft cassette and compact disc devices, and buying a baler for packaging materials. The last activity brought the store an economic payback in six months. (1)

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1. Bergstrom, Kathy. "Target Honored for Reducing Waste," Telegraph Herald, September 7, 1993, p. 3A

"Target," Wikipedia

The 1985 through 2014 Dubuque City Directory listed 3500 Dodge.