For more than 80 years, Chain Store Guide (CSG) has been the leading provider of comprehensive and definitive retail and foodservice intelligence to businesses around the world.
The effort, commitment and dedication to quality demonstrated by the founders of Chain Store Guide have served as the model for continued excellence.
As retail channels and industries developed, Chain Store Guide was there to define the markets. Today, Chain Store Guide continues to be a primary source of information that business professionals rely on for timely and accurate data on the evolving retail and foodservice industries.
Chain Store Guides are available in the following formats:
Printed Directory
On Line Read Only - One year unlimited access to all data in read only format.
Online Pro - One year unlimited online access to all data with the ability to download into reports, spreadsheets and mail labels. Online Pro contains the entire database for each guide and is updated weekly to ensure its accuracy.
Online Pro PLUS – All the great functionality of Online Pro with personal email addresses for key decision-makers, Rapid Reports and Fastest Growing Companies report.
The Apparel Specialty Stores database uncovers the facts on more than 5,200 retailers operating more than 70,700 stores - all involved in the sale of women's, men's, family and children's wear. This database includes 15,000 key buyers and executives.
The Department Stores database is the most comprehensive database of its kind featuring detailed information on 1,800 headquarter listings including 1,500 shoe retailers and more than 100 product lines. Chain Store Guide gives you access to 6,800 buyer and key personnel names covering six retail markets including department stores, shoe, jewelry, optical and resident buyers in the United States and Canada.
Chain Store Guide's Online Pro allows you to sort by more than 100 product lines.
The Home Furnishings Retailers database features detailed information on more than 2,900 headquarters in the U.S. and Canada, with contact information for over 8,600 key executives and buyers
The Dollar Stores database includes comprehensive coverage of the Dollar Store Industry - the hottest retail market segment today. Gain access to nearly 1,100 qualified company listings.
Tap into the lucrative drug industry with 1,500 U.S. and Canadian headquarters operating two or more retail drug stores, deep discount stores, health and beauty care (HBC) stores or vitamin stores that have industry sales of at least $250,000.
CSG has uncovered the facts on 5,000 company headquarters and subsidiaries operating almost 23,500 units in the vast Home Improvement Building Material Industry. Also included are 19 major buying/marketing groups and co-ops that contribute approximately $30 billion and serve 103,243 accounts.
Grow Your Business with U.S. and Canadian supermarket chains, each with at least $2 million in annual sales. The companies in this database operate over 23,000 individual supermarkets, superstores, club stores, gourmet supermarkets and combo-store units. A special convenience store section profiles the headquarters of 1,400 convenience store chains operating 71,000 stores. Connect to more than 19,500 key personnel.
Target New Prospects at more than 5,700 companies with minimum annual retail sales volume of $250,000. This database makes it easy to reach 17,000 key executives and buyers, plus their primary wholesalers.
Grow your business with 6,000 chain restaurant headquarters and franchisees and more than 28,500 unique decision-making personnel within the Restaurant Chain, Foodservice Management and Hotel/Motel Operator markets in the U.S. and Canada.
Each company must have at least $1 million in annual sales (either systemwide or industry) and have two or more units
The Database of Leading Chain Tenants provides information on more than 9,000 retailers and foodservice operators with five or more units across the U.S. and Canada with more than 42,000 personnel contacts.
If you sell to the food service industry don't miss out on the most profitable niche - high volume independent restaurants! Target over 5,100 independent restaurants featuring casual, fine dining and family restaurants in the U.S. and Canada.
Identify sales leads with 5,400 foodservice distributors operating in the U.S. and Canada. Contact information for 25,700 key executives is included, along with each company's distribution centers, restaurant/institution sales, product lines and trading areas.
