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Over the past two decades a significant changes has been recorded in Slovak consumer goods market. They were produced by globalizing a commercial exchange. The changed competition environment is characterised by a different degree of intensity of cooperation between the manufacturers and distributors such as retailers at this time. The paper represents an approach based on two levels. That theoretical defines a question concerning the globalisation and the competition in trade. The operational level of this study seeks to explain a particular practices and methodological aspects of concentration and competition in the consumer goods market.