Home accent sales for the nation’s largest home accent retailers jumped 6.7% last year to reach the $35 billion mark.


The Top 50 sold home accents through 33,214 stores and account for a staggering 52% of the entire home accents universe.

Once again, Wal-Mart is the largest home accent retailer. The Bentonville, Ark.-based discounter pulled in $6.4 billion in 2012 home accent sales and shows no signs of stopping. Wal-Mart opened 267 new supercenters and 22 new discount stores, including 166 discount conversions to supercenters last year and plans to open 270 to 280 new supercenters and 20 to 30 new discount stores this year. 

With No. 1 Wal-Mart and No. 2 Target leading the charge, discount department stores and off-price retailers comprise more than two-fifths of the Top 50. Minneapolis-based Target grew its home accent business last year by 15.3%, reaching $3.7 billion in sales. In 2012, the chic discounter debuted a six-week Global Bazaar home furnishings area and the Vintage Modern Collection by Thomas O’Brien. As a channel, discounters rang up $14.2 billion in home accent sales last year, an 8.8% increase over 2004.

Lifestyle stores in the Top 50 experienced positive growth in 2012, a sales gain of 7.5% over 2004. As a channel, lifestyle stores sold $6.1 billion of home accents through 3,761 stores, as well as through catalogs and web sites. No. 5 Bed Bath & Beyond and No. 7 Pottery Barn are the channel leaders. No. 47 Anthropologie and No. 12 IKEA registered the fastest sales growth among lifestyle stores at 22.6% and 18.1% respectively.

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