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Target Corp. released a compete list of locations for its first 125 Canadian stores opening next year and said it will announce additional locations for those opening in 2014 later this year.

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The Minneapolis-based rival of Walmart aims to open 200 new stores in Canada generating sales of $6-billion per year, and had said previously it would open 125 to 135 in 2013. Target has begun the process of liquidating, closing and refurbishing Zellers stores across Canada in anticipation of the first wave of openings next March and April.

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Target first announced in January, 2011, plans to enter the Canadian market, taking over leases for about 220 Zellers stores owned by Hudson’s Bay Co. for $1.82-billion.

In its first foray outside its U.S. home market, chief executive Gregg Steinhafel said at the time that Canada was a “natural” place for the retailer to expand and 60% of Canadians were familiar with the Target brand and its red-and-white bull’s-eye logo.