Target Australia

Target Australia Pty Ltd
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryRetail
Founded1926; 98 years ago (1926)
(as Lindsay's)
FounderGeorge Lindsay
Alex McKenzie
Headquarters,
Number of locations
124 (2023)
Key people
Richard Pearson (Managing Director)[1]
RevenueDecrease A$2.68 billion (2020)[2]
Number of employees
10,000 (2023)
ParentWesfarmers
Websitetarget.com.au

Target Australia Pty Ltd (formerly Lindsay's and Lindsay's Target, formerly stylised as Target. and doing business as Target and Target Australia) is a department store chain owned by Australian retail conglomerate Wesfarmers. Target stocks clothing, cosmetics, homewares, electronics, books, and toys selling both in-store and online.[3] The company's head office is located in the Melbourne suburb of Williams Landing which the company moved to in 2018.[4] Despite the identical logo, name and similar type of outlets, Target Australia carries no direct relation or affiliation to the American retailer Target Corporation.[5]

  1. ^ Bailey, Imogen (12 November 2020). "Target welcomes new MD as Marina Joanou moves on". Ragtrader. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  2. ^ "2020 Full-year results briefing presentation" (PDF). Wesfarmers. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  3. ^ English, Carrigan (8 September 2019). "There's an Australian store called Target that has nothing to do with the American one — and the Australian one is way better". Business Insider Australia. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Target Australia Headquarters". Cedar Woods. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Target has a twin in Australia, but they're not related". Star Tribune. Retrieved 26 April 2016.