Retail Asia magazine and KPMG has been supporting this program as a principal partner for the eighth consecutive year. This edition’s Top 500 ranked retailers in the region based on their sales performance in 2010, a year which marked the recovery from the global economic recession in 2009. The robust positive sales growth of 10% that the Top 500 retailers achieved in 2010 bears testament to the accompanying recovery of the retail scene in the Asia-Pacific.