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...climate deal exit) Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company (left after Paris climate deal exit) Rich Lesser, President and CEO, Boston Consulting Group Doug McMillon, President and CEO, Wal-Mart...
...“Flogging DVDs in Bentonville [where Wal-Mart is headquartered] is not particularly sexy, but it’s what MGM was good at,” says one person who was close to the situation at the time....
...Wal-Mart’s shares have gained almost 30 per cent over the same period....
...Its stores have underperformed its rivals, CVS and Walgreens, while it faces growing competition from Wal-Mart....
...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 makes a high-profile target for local groups, which argue that the US chain has a history of wiping out small high street stores....
...Coca-Cola has appointed Joe Tripodi, one of the US marketing industry’s highest-profile executives, as its new chief marketing officer, with responsibilities for relations with major customers such as Wal-Mart...
...Wal-Mart’s US floorspace after 45 years in business came to 600m sq ft as of October. India’s “mom and pop” stores are just as likely to be put to the wall by Reliance as by Wal-Mart....
...Mr Zogby, who has done some polling work for Wake Up Wal-Mart, says Democrats still lack “a strategy that deals with Joe and Mary Middle America – and Joe and Mary Middle America are at Wal-Mart”....
...The anti-Wal-Mart coalition has scored two recent victories at city and state level: last week’s vote by the city of Chicago to set a minimum wage for big retailers in the city, and a bid by Maryland to...
...Wal-Mart has also launched football-themed marketing events at stores with significant Hispanic customers, with 155 stores participating in events that include setting up Astroturf football fields in the...
...And second, via ambitious plans to transform Indian food retailing that will see Bharti, in alliance with Wal-Mart Stores, open western-style hypermarkets across India....
...the three giants of the traditional US supermarket sector along with Kroger and Safeway, underlines the shifts in the business resulting from the steady rise of low-cost competition, in particular from Wal-Mart...
...S&P cited increased competition in particular from Wal-Mart stores supercenters, which offer both groceries and general merchandise, as well as from Costco, the discount warehouse club, drug stores, and...
...Some time soon the notoriously liberal ninth circuit federal appeals court in California will hear arguments in the case of Women v Wal-Mart (official name: Dukes v Wal-Mart Stores)....
...900m, have faced stiff competition from discount retailers such as Wal-Mart. Analysts believe private equity funds Apollo and Cerberus could be in the running to buy the US assets....
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