States, behind Walmart. Founded by George Dayton and headquartered in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Later, the first Target store opened in Roseville,
Minnesota in 1962 while the parent company was renamed the Dayton
Corporation in 1967. It became the Dayton-Hudson Corporation after merging with the J.L Hudson Company in 1969 and held ownership of several department store chains including Dayton's, Hudson's, Marshall Field's, and Mervyn's.
As of 2017, Target operates 1,834 stores throughout the United States. They are retail formats include the discount store Target, the hypermarket Super Target, and "flexible format" stores previously named City Target and Target