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...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 . . ....
...own marques, two people familiar with the store takeovers told the FT....
...Walmex, which this month released moderate sales growth in August with same-store sales up 5.9 per cent, but below the market consensus of 6.8 per cent, has nearly 2,400 stores in Mexico....
...Starting in February 2018, the company will shorten its name from “Wal-mart Stores, Inc.” to “Walmart Inc.”....
...Over the last two years Whole Foods’ sales figures have been languishing due to increasing competition in specialty foods from the likes of Kroger, Wal-Mart and Costco....
...Alice Walton was the highest placed woman, with a net worth of $38.2bn, ranking the heir to the Wal-Mart Stores fortune at 13 – the same position as last year....
...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...
...the company this year has made several key investments, including forming a partnership with China’s JD.com, acquiring marketplace startup Jet.com and rolling out a mobile payments system across its US stores...
...Mr Clarke had previously hoped that a 4.7 per cent decline in sales during the second quarter of 2015 would mark a “nadir” for the company, which is owned by US retail giant Wal-Mart....
...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....
...carrying higher costs. 2) How can Wal-Mart afford to have such low prices and still be so profitable?...
...Well, capital investment fell last year; its store count grew at the same middling rate as sales. One appeal of the company is its ability to generate cash and an increasing propensity to return it....
...(Financial Times) Wal-Mart unlikely to bid (Bloomberg) Online ad company AppNexus became one of only a handful of NY start-ups to crack a valuation over $1bn after a new round of investment....
...Wal-Mart de Mexico reported a 4.3 per cent rise in second quarter profit – pretty much in line with expecations – to 5.15bn pesos ($396.6m) and it posted a nearly 5 per cent rise in total sales across Mexico...
...Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex), Mexico’s biggest retailer, jumped nearly 5 per cent to 33.89 pesos....
...What we are actually referring to is this meaty mix-up, via Reuters: Wal-Mart will reimburse customers who bought the tainted “Five Spice” donkey meat and is helping local food and industry agencies in...
...(WSJ) “The National Labor Relations Board said it is prepared to file complaints alleging Wal-Mart violated workers’ rights to protest—unless Wal-Mart and the parties settle matters first.”...
...For years, investors and analysts have asked what Wal-Mart de México y Centroamérica, Mexico’s largest retailer, was doing with a chain of budget restaurants....
...Two months into the third quarter and Wal-Mart de México, the US retailer’s Mexican arm, has very little to cheer about – at least in terms of luring more higher-spending customers to its massive retail...
...lobbying India’s Cabinet approved a retired judge to probe claims that Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
...It’s been quite a year for Wal-Mart de México, the US retailer’s Mexican arm....
...Wal-Mart is one of several buyers who welcomed the stability that the pact afforded. And Mexican officials have no intention of sitting on their hands....
...Henry Waxman and Elijah Cummings, Democratic congressmen investigating allegations that Walmart paid bribes to open new stores in Mexico, disclosed the information in a letter to Walmart’s chief executive...
...With Wal-Mart and Starbucks both announcing plans in the past week to make it easier for customers to pay using smartphones, the mobile payments market is finally moving into the mainstream....
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