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FY2023 acquired-entity profile / published 3-digit NAICS

44544-45Retail trade

Food and Beverage Stores

This release row records 3 adjusted HSR transactions, 2 agency clearances, and 1 Second Request. It describes acquired-entity classification inside one federal report, not an industry merger rate or a legal antitrust market.

Locate in atlas Compare releases Exact row
Position in FY2023 Table XIRank 37 of 79
Highest adjusted countLowest
Published share
0.2%
-0.1 pp from FY2022
Sector position
7 / 10
3.3% of sector transactions
Food and Beverage Stores3.3%
3 row92 sector
Adjusted transactions
3
0.2% published share
Agency clearances
2
2 FTC / 0 DOJ
Second Requests
1
33.3% of row count
Intra-industry flags
0
0.0% of row count
Release continuity
2 / 2
Stable code and label
Position in FY2023 Table XI

Rank 37 of 79

Transactions
3
0.2% share
Clearances
2
2 FTC / 0 DOJ
Second Requests
1
33.3% of row
Intra-industry
0
0.0% of row
Continuity
2 / 2
Stable code and label

Adjacent official releases

Same-code release continuity

Stable code and label

The same 3-digit code and published label appear in FY2023 and FY2024.

FY2023445Food and Beverage Stores3 transactions / 0.2%FY2024445Food and Beverage Stores3 transactions / 0.2%
Adjusted transactions
FY20233FY20243
0
Published share
FY20230.2%FY20240.2%
0 pp
Agency clearances
FY20232FY20240
-2
Second Requests
FY20231FY20240
-1
Intra-industry flags
FY20230FY20240
0

Release-to-release sector shifts aggregate each edition's exact published rows inside stable broad NAICS sectors. They are descriptive changes in the federal review pipeline, not merger rates, market-power measures, or causal estimates. Industry codes and labels that enter, exit, or change between tables remain explicit rather than being silently crosswalked.

Published review-stage record

Agency lanes stay separate

FY2023 / exact Table XI fields

Clearances and Second Requests are administrative review stages. Their counts and row-level rates do not indicate liability, remedy, competitive harm, or agency effectiveness.

Agency clearances2Rank 11 of 79
Federal Trade Commission
2
Department of Justice
0
66.7% clearances / row count
Second Requests1Rank 4 of 79
Federal Trade Commission
1
Department of Justice
0
33.3% Second Requests / row count
Intra-industry flags0Rank 7 of 79
Flagged transactions
0
Other row transactions
3
0.0% of row count

An intra-industry transaction means the acquiring and acquired persons both reported revenue in the same 3-digit NAICS code. It does not establish a horizontal overlap, relevant antitrust market, or competitive effect.

Sector peer field

Retail trade

10 published rows / common count scale

Peers share this report's broad NAICS sector. Ordering uses adjusted transaction count within FY2023; it is not a ranking of market power, importance, or enforcement priority.

  1. 01454Nonstore Retailers231.3%
  2. 02441Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers221.3%
  3. 03446Health and Personal Care Stores140.8%
  4. 04447Gasoline Stations110.6%
  5. 05448Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores80.5%
  6. 06452General Merchandise Stores40.2%
  7. 07444Electronics and Appliance Stores30.2%
  8. 08445Food and Beverage Stores30.2%
  9. 09453Miscellaneous Store Retailers30.2%
  10. 10442Furniture and Home Furnishing Stores10.1%
Open the complete sector in the composition atlasPreserve FY2023, sector 44-45, and selected NAICS 445.

Classification passport

Exact labels before analytical joins

Code identity is not a silent crosswalk

The release label, adjacent-release label, and Census 2022 label are shown independently. A matching code supports navigation; it does not prove statistical continuity when labels or source universes differ.

Selected HSR releaseFY2023 / 445

Food and Beverage Stores

46th Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Report (FY 2023)
Adjacent HSR releaseFY2024 / 445

Food and Beverage Stores

Stable code and label
2022 Economic Census2022 / 445

Food and beverage retailers

Same code / different label or source wording
Economy-wide structure context

Food and beverage retailers

Open Census industry profile
Firms
126,254
Employees
3,463,100
Revenue
$972.3B
CR4
32.7%
HHI
352.1
A NAICS industry is a statistical classification, not a legally defined antitrust market. Use these national revenue concentration measures to screen where deeper product and geographic market analysis may be warranted, not to infer market power or liability.

Evidence custody

One official row, reproducible handoffs

Source checked Aug 14, 2026
Official source

46th Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Report (FY 2023)

Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice

Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, 46th Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2023, October 2024.Open source dossier

The FY2023 and FY2024 acquired-entity tables classify adjusted HSR transactions by 3-digit NAICS. They describe the federal review pipeline, not industry-wide merger rates, market definitions, competitive harm, or agency performance. Published row shares are independently rounded to one decimal place and therefore sum to 100.3% and 101.5%, respectively, while each official table total remains 100.0%.