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21
PROPERTIES
Warehouse Properties
At September 1, 2013, we operated 634 membership warehouses:
NUMBER OF WAREHOUSES
Own Land
and Building
Lease Land
and/or
Building(1) Total
United States and Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 89 451
Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 10 85
Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 1 33
United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5 25
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 14 18
Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . — 10 10
Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6 9
Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 3
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498 136 634
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(1) 95 of the 136 leases are land-leases only, where Costco owns the building.
The following schedule shows warehouse openings for the past five fiscal years and expected warehouse
openings through December 31, 2013:
Openings by Fiscal Year(1) United States Canada Other
International(2) Total Total Warehouses
in Operation
2009 and prior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 77 44 527 527
2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2 1 13 540
2011. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3 36 52 592
2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 — 6 16 608
2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 11 26 634
2014 (expected through 12/31/2013). . . 10 2 3 15 649
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 87 101 649
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(1) Net of closings.
(2) 2011 includes 32 Mexico warehouses in operation at the beginning of the year, when we began consolidating Mexico. These
32 warehouses were opened in 2009 and prior.
At the end of 2013, our warehouses contained approximately 90.8 million square feet of operating floor
space: 65.5 million in the U.S.; 11.7 million in Canada; and 13.6 million in other international locations.
Additionally, we operate regional cross-docking facilities (depots) for the consolidation and distribution of
most merchandise shipments to the warehouses, and various processing, packaging, and other facilities to
support ancillary and other businesses. We operate 22 depots consisting of approximately 9.0 million square
feet. Our executive offices are located in Issaquah, Washington and we operate 16 regional offices in the
U.S., Canada and other international locations.