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...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....
...Wal-Mart may open India retail stores Wal-Mart and Carrefour may gain access to the retail market of the world’s second most-populous country after an Indian government panel was said to have recommended...
...Li & Fung, a big supplier to Wal-Mart stores in the US, rose by 3.8 per cent to HK$24.80. In India, the Sensex was 0.5 per cent higher by mid afternoon in Mumbai at 13,701.24....
...He said: “Poor weekly Fresh & Easy sales rates could be compounded by Wal-Mart’s opening of its new 15,000 sq ft convenience stores, called Marketside....
...Li & Fung, a big supplier to Wal-Mart Stores, shrugged off the pessimism about the US consumer to rise 4.4 per cent to HK$ 31.85 as investors anticipated a rise in annual profits....
...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...
...Li & Fung, a big supplier to Wal-Mart stores in the US, jumped by 6.5 per cent to HK$28.00. Commodity prices lifted Australian shares. The S&P/ASX 200 gained 1.3 per cent to 5,608.10....
...Li & Fung, a big supplier to Wal-Mart stores in the US, fell by 7.2 per cent to HK$27. Singapore shares also suffered, ending a shortened trading session 3.5 per cent lower at 2,932.05....
...Retailers were in the spotlight after they reported some weak same-store sales for October. Wal-Mart sales increased by just 0.4 per cent, below the 1.1 per cent rise expected by analysts....
...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....
...Li & Fung, a big supplier to Wal-Mart Stores of the US, rose 5.9 per cent to HK$30.65....
...Other retailers fell, led by Macy’s , off 3.7 per cent at $40.12, Wal-Mart , down 1.9 per cent at $47.58, and Costco , lower by 1.4 per cent at $60.51....
...Profit warnings from retailers such as Home Depot and Sears, down 9.6 per cent to $157.40, sparked worries that the US consumer was starting to slow.Among the better performing retailers, Wal-Mart reported...
...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....
...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....
...Cazenove said Morrison could benefit from the struggling performance at Wal-Mart-owned Asda, which missed its sales and profits targets for the third successive quarter in the three months to December....
...Shinsegae, the Seoul-listed retailer, also bucked the weak trend after it agreed to buy the South Korean unit of Wal-Mart for won825bn ($882m). The shares gained 6.6 per cent to won460,000....
...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)....
...More recent entrants into the online music market, such as Wal-Mart, the US retailer, and Sony, the Japanese electronics group, have also failed to dent Apple's music store business....
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