Hints and tips:
...By the time Sam Walton opened his first Wal-mart in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, his playbook to build a global retail giant was already drafted....
...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...Chief executive Doug McMillon said: “We are pleased that we can see real progress stemming from our strategic choices and we appreciate the great work by our associates. Yet, we are not satisfied....
...Wal-Mart Stores (Retail) 48. Home Depot (Consumer Goods) 49. Yahoo! (Technology) 50. Morgan Stanley (Finance) 51. Discovery Communications (Media) 52. Colgate-Palmolive (Consumer Goods) 53....
...Now let’s suppose that in the US, the chairman of Wal-Mart could become the chairman of Procter & Gamble. That would be an obvious case of conflict of interest and there would be no denying it....
...First, is this already the post-baroque, post-Lucas van Praag era in bank PR or something? Jamie Dimon’s also in the NY Observer disguising JPMorgan as Wal-Mart....
...Therefore, even for the most global companies, sales functions are still local or regional in character; however, we are now seeing some customers globalising; look at Wal-Mart, Tesco or Carrefour.”...
...practice leader at Callan Associates....
...Wal-Mart is a striking example of the shift in value from services to resources and heavy engineering, falling from 7 last year to 19....
...Mr Buffett himself has pointed to retail giant Wal-Mart as a family business that successfully opted for professional managers after the death of Sam Walton, its founder, in 1992....
...(H/T Bryce Elder) Related links: Wal-Mart Looks to Bolster Suppliers – Wall Street Journal...
...The US mutual fund industry is keeping close tabs on the progress of more than 20 lawsuits that allege companies such as Wal-Mart, Lockheed Martin and Boeing breached their fiduciary duties to employees...
...The opportunity turned out to be Wal-Mart....
...The pace will slow slightly as fewer superstore openings mean that the company expects to add only 22,000 “associates” (Wal-Mart’s chosen euphemism) compared with 38,000 in the last financial year....
...RFID, in particular, attracted a lot of attention at the beginning of the decade, with large retail groups such as Marks and Spencer and Wal-Mart using the technology to track goods in their warehouses and...
...“My position very clearly is the worst is yet to come,” said Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc, a national retail consulting firm. “The consumer is in survival mode.”...
...I think we have done a good job as a company in communicating to the people who are in this process that Wal-Mart’s customer base and associate base is important to them and we play an important role in...
...In large part it is because of China and Wal-Mart....
...An overnight rally in US stock markets had helped credit markets tighten sharply, after Wal-Mart reported earnings that beat market expectations and Intel and Cisco increased their revenue estimates....
...Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, is dipping its toes into online grocery sales, with the expansion of a home shipping service for products including Perrier water and free-trade coffee at Sam’s Club, its...
...Wal-Mart, the largest private employer in the US, is encouraging its 1.3m store workers to set out health-related goals for themselves under “Personal Sustainability Plans”....
...California currently has only 31 of Wal-Mart’s national network of 2,300 Supercenters, compared with 151 in Florida....
...In a theatrical twist, Wal-Mart itself adopted its own agit-prop musical strategy at its annual meeting last year, when some 20,000 of its top associates witnessed a specially commissioned musical including...
...In the US, large companies such as Google and Wal-Mart have announced substantial investments in producing their own electricity through solar power....
...The modernisation of India’s $330bn retail sector will be long and painful, the head of Wal-Mart’s Indian partner has warned....
International Edition