Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best Ohio based Retail companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Retail industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Ohio Retail Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Kroger
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Kroger distributes and merchandises food, pharmacy, health and personal care items, seasonal merchandise, and related products and services.
Macy’s
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Macy’s is an omnichannel retailer of beauty, fashion, home decor, and more products.
PopCom
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Popcom provides touchless vending machines that track transactions to create live sales and product reports.
Jifiti.com
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Jifiti offers retailers and brands advanced monetization through innovative services in-store and online.
Big Lots
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Big Lots is a discount retailer that offers affordable solutions in the merchandise categories such as furniture, food, decor, and more.
The Hillman Group
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The Hillman Group is a provider of complete hardware solutions, delivered with industry best customer service to over 26,000 customers.
Arhaus
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Arhaus is a premiere retail chain that designs, manufactures, and sells home furnishings both at retail locations and online.
Green Growth Brands
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Green Growth Brands is a lifestyle-oriented, consumer products company that celebrates health, wellness, and happiness.
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NaviStone helps advertisers turn their website visitors into direct mail customers.
Air Waves
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Air Waves is an apparel & fashion company providing pet fashion products.
Royal
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Royal re-defines sexual hygiene & body care with all natural, high quality, accessible health essential products
White Castle
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White Castle is more than a company. It’s an experience that transcends time, space and sometimes, rational thought.
Express
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Express, Inc. ( Express) is a specialty apparel and accessory retailer offering both women’s and men’s merchandise.
BYBE
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BYBE’s platform manages beer, wine and spirit offers for leading adult beverage brands and retailers.
HealthWarehouse.com
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HealthWarehour is a US-based pharmacy providing individuals with retail mail-order services.
The Single Origin Food Co
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Home of the world’s first plant-based honey substitute.
dELiAs
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dELiA*s, Inc. is a multi-channel retail company that generates revenue by selling apparel and accessories intended for teenage girls.
HomeBuys
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HomeBuys is a discount retailer that offers an opportunistic buying experience for consumers.
Unific
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Unific is helping retailers grow by attracting, converting and retaining customers.
Mace Security International
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Mace® is known around the world as the original manufacturer of pepper sprays
Bath & Body Works
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Bath & Body Works is a specialty retailer and a go-to place for gifts and goodies that delight customers.
Abercrombie & Fitch
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Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F) through its subsidiaries, is a specialty retailer of casual apparel for men, women and kids.
C.Krueger’s
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C.Krueger’s is a cookie and sweets shop dedicated in the creation of world’s finest cookies and gifts.
Alma Mater
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Alma Mater is an licensed team apparel market that sells fashionable products for men and women.
Scotts Miracle-Gro
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ScottsMiracle-Gro is dedicated to a beautiful world with industry-leading lawn, garden and outdoor living products and services.
Beau Joie Champagne
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Beau Joie Champagne is an alcohol brand that provides zero-dosage champagne with none of the added sugars common in other champagnes.
Victoria’s Secret
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Victoria’s Secret offers lingerie and beauty products.
L brands
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L Brands is an international company that sells lingerie, personal care and beauty products, apparel and accessories.
Human Unlimited
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Human Unlimited is a provider of an online apparel and clothing shopping platform created to offer a range of clothing products.
polar delight
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PolarDelight has developed a proprietary method for serving Gourmet Ice Cream in a convenient way with no maintenance.
Kellermeyer Bergensons Services
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Kellermeyer Bergensons Services continued success is founded on a clear vision of their impact on the people and industries they serve.
HealthPro Brands
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HealthPro Brands provides consumer products like detergent, hand soap, mosquito repellent, fruits, and vegetables in worldwide.
Shopperations Research & Technology
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Enterprise SaaS platform for Shopper Marketers, end-to-end solution that automates budgeting, planning and execution of retail promotions.
F13 Works
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F13 Works provides manufacturers, drop-shippers, and order fulfillers of all types with a connection to millions of online stores.
Catherines
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Catherines is an online women’s clothing and fashion store.
Designer Brands
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Designer Brands is a retail company that designs and produces a variety of footwear and accessories.
West Point Optical Group
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West Point Optical Group is a retail provider of eyewear, also offering various eye care services.
Jo-Ann Stores
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Jo-Ann Stores is a fabric and craft store chain specializing in supplies for sewing, crafting, and home decor designs.
SITE Centers
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SITE Centers manages open-air shopping centers that provides shopping experience and merchandise mix for retail partners and consumers.
Luma Financial Technologies
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Luma is an independent multi-issue platform that provides banks and brokers and dealers an order entry system.
STRATACACHE
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Delivering retail transformation and exceptional customer experiences through advanced marketing technology solutions.
DRB Systems
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DRB Systems provides automated management systems, POS terminals, hand-held portable touchscreen terminals, self-pay stations
Reynolds and Reynolds
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Reynolds and Reynolds is an automotive retailer.
Tagnetics
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Tagnetics is a designer and marketer of power-at-the-shelf retail technology solutions.
The Andersons
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The Andersons is an agricultural products development and marketing company.
June Cashmere
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June Cashmere is specializing in yarns that created by sustainably sourcing cashmere directly from small family farms.
American Freight
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Discount furniture, mattress, and appliance store
TravelCenters of America
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TravelCenters of America is a travel center business.
TradeGlobal
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Global eCommerce solutions: Frontend Integration, Omnichannel-Fulfillment and -IT-solutions, Digital Marketing, global shipping software
FacilitySource
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FacilitySource LLC offers companies with multiple locations an innovative alternative.
Ferro
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Ferro is a producer of specialty materials and chemicals that are sold to a range of manufacturers.
Magnolia Hi-Fi
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Magnolia Hi-Fi sells audio, TV and video, furniture, home integration, and accessories.
Chatalog
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Chatalog is an online social conversation platform that allows users to share items and opinions with friends.
HotSpot CookTop
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HotSpot CookTop specializes in sales of kitchen appliances.
Zelnik Realty
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Zelnik Realty helped an array of retailers through their site selection process and sales projects.
HDT Global
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HDT Global is widely recognized for its industry-leading production of state-of-the-art, fully integrated deployable solutions.
DX Engineering
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DX Engineering is an online retailer for radio products.
Avitae Holdings
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Avitae Holdings is an energy drink beverage company that produces carbonated caffeine water by using natural ingredients.
Micro Center
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Micro Center is a retailer for computers and consumer electronics in the United States.
Beagle Bioproducts
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Beagle Bioproduct markets cyanobacterial toxins for research applications and for the monitoring and mitigation of harmful algal blooms.
Ann Taylor
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ANN INC. parent company of Ann Taylor, LOFT & Lou & Grey
FRONTGATE
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FRONTGATE designs and manufactures consumer products for luxury home lifestyle.
Harvest & Bloom
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High-quality medical cannabis to qualified patients in Ohio.
Cell Phone Repair
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Cell Phone Repair is a franchisors of mobile device repair stores.
Thirty-One Gifts
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Thirty-One Gifts is a retail company providing gifts, cards, and luxury products.
Receet
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Receet is a mobile app platform that improves shopping experience through digital receipts.
Trademark Global
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Trademark Global is a supplier to the mass market internet retailer. It operates in internet wholesale, supplying mass market internet
Cheryl & Co
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Cheryl & Co is a manufacturer and direct marketer of premium cookies.
Convertedin
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Convertedin is an ad automation platform for ecommerce businesses using AI.
Hoopla
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Hoopla is a digital media service that partners with libraries to facilitate the renting of digital content.
Fasteners for Retail
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FFR Merchandising has the point of purchase display industry’s largest inventory and widest selection of stock merchandising products.
AmeriMark Direct
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AmeriMark Direct is a retail company that provides marketing merchandise in Ohio.
American Signature Furniture
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American Signature Furniture is an online store which retails home furnishings by different manufacturers.
LensCrafters
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LensCrafters is a producer and an optical retailing of lenses.
Red Pigeon Interactive LLC
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Digital technology startup company focusing on innovation in wearables.
Speedeon Data
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Powers clients’ direct marketing programs providing customer contact data and innovative data solutions.
PetPeople
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PetPeople is the neighborhood place for natural foods and quality supplies for dogs and cats
T Marzetti
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The T. Marzetti Company markets a wide variety of foods for both the retail and foodservice markets.
Remington Products
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Remington Products is a custom manufacturer of engineered foam products, including contour cut foam.
Matco Tools Franchise
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Matco Tools is one of the leading players in the mobile tool franchise market.
Rockler Companies, Inc.
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Rockler Companies is a retail company offering woodworking tools, plans, and hardware.
Eagle Foods
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Eagle Foods is a leading producer and marketer of canned sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk products.
D’s Naturals
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D’s Naturals is revolutionizing the healthy foods industry by bringing cutting edge.
The Limited
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The Limited was an American clothing company.
JEGS High Performance
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JEGS High Performance is a retail company specializing in building and tweaking engines.
Phantom Fireworks
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Phantom Fireworks is a retail company specializing in consumer fireworks.
Affinity Apparel
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Affinity Apparel is a uniform, fabric and fashion design company.
Ritz Safety
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Ritz Safety is operates 10 retail/wholesale distribution centers.
Pyramyd Air
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A Solon, Ohio-based online retailer of air guns and air gun accessories.
Ripple Junction Design Co.
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Ripple Junction Design Co. is an apparel & fashion company providing apparels, headwear, and accessories.
TSC Apparel
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TSC Apparel is B2B distributor of imprintable apparel products and accessories.
Point Blank Range & GunShop
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Point Blank Range & GunShop is a retail company that provides firearms and shooting accessories.
LSI Industries
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LSI Industries is a Lighting fixtures, controls and graphics provider
Mast Industries, Inc.
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Mast Industries, Inc. operates as a contract manufacturers, importers, and distributors of apparel, including sportswear.
Edge Park Surgical
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Edge Park Surgical is an online medical supply store that offers automatic shipping of select types of medical supplies.
Rite Rug
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Rite Rug has provided a huge selection of quality flooring options at unbeatable prices including: carpet, hardwood, tile, laminate & vinyl.
The Oneida Group
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The Oneida Group’s is the global marketer dining and food preparation, recognized for providing quality tabletop and kitchen solutions.
