This article is about the American retailer. For the Australian retailer and flagship brand of Wesfarmers's Kmart Group, see Kmart Australia. For other uses, see Kmart (disambiguation).
Before 2018 Kmart owned and operated a much larger chain of Kmart stores. The company is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States.
The company was incorporated in 1899 as S. S. Kresge Corporation and renamed Kmart Corporation in 1977.[11] The first store with the Kmart name opened in 1962 in Garden City, Michigan.[12] At its peak in 1994, Kmart operated 2,486 stores globally, including 2,323 discount stores and Super Kmart Center locations in the United States.[13][14][15][16] From 2005 through 2019, Kmart was a subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation, which owns Sears.[17] Since 2019, Kmart has been a subsidiary of Transform SR Brands LLC, a privately held company that was formed in 2019 to acquire assets from Sears Holdings.
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