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...Carson had worked at Delta Air Lines, Microsoft and Apple. None had Walmart’s scale. “Right now,” he says, “we have the corporate world’s largest skilling ecosystem.”...
...Here’s a look at why Walmart couldn’t crack the Japanese market....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...Walmart has looked to discount its prices, even for organic groceries, to retain market share....
...(CPI) Number of the day 73% v 28%The proportion of remaining delegates that Sanders would need to win in order to secure the nomination, compared to what Clinton needs....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...Walmart acquired discount stores Wertkauf and Interspar in 1997 but after nine years it conceded defeat, sold 85 stores to Metro AG and incurred a loss of $1bn....
...But the real foretaste of the future – and digital hell – is with companies such as Walmart and Amazon, he claims....
...Sohn conference cheat sheet - Carson Block’s announcement about shorting Olam International may have dominated news from this week’s Sohn conference, but guess what?...
...Target’s gain year-to-date has beaten Walmart’s performance....
...Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Research, triggered a 21 per cent drop in Olam’s shares in the US after he told an investment conference in London he was betting against the company....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...Food minister K V Thomas said the government would allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, paving the way for retail giants like Walmart and Tesco to enter the market....
...The Supreme Court will rule, not on the merits of the case, known as Dukes v Walmart, but on Walmart’s claim that the class is too broadly constituted, and that the complaints should be brought on a more...
...The case, Dukes v Walmart, was originally brought in the names of seven former female employees, but includes affidavits from some 120 Walmart employees, arguing that the company’s male-dominated culture...
...“The customer is not about just cheap,” Mike Duke, chief executive of Walmart, the nation’s ultimate low-cost shopping destination, said last month....
...“This is a wake up call for the equity bulls and the V shaped recovery bulls.”...
...Sam’s Club, which targets both small businesses and families, has expanded its offering of non-perishable items, which now includes Campbell’s V-8 juice, Kellogg’s snack bars, dried fruit and popcorn, as...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...“China is not dying for foreign investment today,” says Carson Wen, partner at Jones Day and also a deputy representing Hong Kong in China’s National People’s Congress....
...This is particularly true at a time of mounting chauvinistic pride in the achievements of India Inc. on the world stage, so evident in last week’s euphoria over Tata Steel’s successful bid for Corus....
...And no company has ever faced a class-action suit larger than Dukes v Wal-Mart, which on Tuesday was given the go-ahead by a divided panel of three federal judges in California....
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