• First store opened - May 19, 2001, Tyson's Corner (Virg.); second store opened the same day at the Glendale (S. Calif.) Galleria
  • Longest grand opening line - Ginza, 1,982 (individually counted by ifo)
  • Most opening day visitors - 11,000, per Apple at Regent Street
  • Number of stores - 269, of which 50 are other countries
  • Square-feet of store space - about 1.8 million square-feet
  • Number of states - 41
  • International stores in 9 countries - 50 total; 7 in Japan; 20 in the UK; 12 in Canada; 1 in Italy; 5 in Australia; 1 in China, 3 in Switzerland, 1 in Germany
  • State with most stores - California, 45; Florida: 16; Texas, 15; New York, 13
  • over 100 million people within 15 miles of an Apple store (as of late 2004)
  • Number of employees - 16,500 full-time equivalent (Q3, 2009)
  • Largest store - Regent Street, 28,000+ s.f.; North Michigan Avenue, 24,000 s.f.
  • Smallest store - Santa Rosa Plaza (N. Calif), 540 s.f.
  • Tallest store - Ginza, 4 floors of retail + 1 floor of training rooms
  • Cost of wood furniture - $315,000 per store
  • Build-out, mall store - ~$450,000; flagship ~ $5-8 million or more
  • Number of stocked products - about 500
  • Average visitors per week - about 11,600 per store (Q3, 2009)
  • Number of mini-stores - 9 / Stanford, Santa Rosa Plaza, Oakridge, Carousel, Bethesda Row, Rockaway Town Square, Bridgewater Commons, St. Louis Galleria, Southcenter
  • Employee applicant-to-hiring ratio - 17:1
  • Retail sales - $1.5 billion (Q3, 2009)
  • Profit-loss - $321 million profit (Q3, 2009)
  • Retail's contribution to companies revenues - ~21.7%
  • Retail's contribution to company's profits - ~26.4%
  • CPUs sold in retail stores - 492,000 (Q3, 2009)
  • 270,000 members in "One to One" service (2Q, 2007)
  • ProCare members: over 100,000 (3Q, 2007)
  • Personal training sessions: over 600,000 (Q3, 2009)
  • Longest Genius Bar - Regent Street (London), 46 feet
  • Most stores per square-inch: Manhattan, three stores within 3.1 miles; Honolulu, three stores within 3.7 miles; Las Vegas, 3 stores within 4.2 miles
  • Closest stores to one another: Palo Alto and Stanford (N. Calif.): 3,837 feet apart
  • Most expensive store to build - Fifth Avenue (NYC), over $10 million, including demolition, store and glass cube
  • Number of high-profile stores - 11 - SoHo (NYC), Fifth Avenue (NYC), North Michigan Avenue (Chicago), San Francisco, Ginza (Tokyo), Regent Street (London), The Grove (LA), Shinsaibashi (Osaka), 14th Street (NYC), George Street (Glasgow), Sanlitun (Beijing)
  • Favorite building materials - bead-blasted stainless steel siding from Japan; Indiana limestone siding; grey, Italian fine-grained siltstone flooring from the Sienna district, glass structures designed in the UK, fabricated in Germany