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...With streets empty, Amazon, Wal-Mart and local grocers sold out of key household items, networks jammed across the globe, SMB’s shuttered, and millions working from home, forced changes will have a lasting...
...In Finance v Wal-Mart: Why are Financial Services so Expensive?, Mr Philippon crunches the numbers on costs for consumers....
...Tequila in $5.1bn deal (WSJ) Loeb demands ‘more urgency’ for disposals at Nestlé (FT) Richemont bids to take full control of Yoox Net-a-Porter (FT) Carlyle loses control of bankrupt US oil refinery (FT) Wal-Mart...
...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....
...idea is Handell’s impressive distribution network in Mexico, which reaches not only the more expensive retail outlets such as department stores and luxury goods’ stores, but also the growing number of Wal-Mart...
...Larger customers such as Wal-Mart were able to use their market might to gain competitive advantage in the supply chain, allowing them to deliver ever lower prices to consumers....
...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...
...The modernisation of India’s $330bn retail sector will be long and painful, the head of Wal-Mart’s Indian partner has warned....
...The US has stepped up its nuclear security co-operation with Pakistan in the wake of Mr Khan’s activities, famously described as a “nuclear Wal-Mart” by Mohamed ElBaradei, the International Atomic Energy...
...Wal-Mart has been given fair warning of what lies ahead....
...River Garden is not far from a busy Wal-Mart store, whose presence is a remarkable break from the past....
...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....
...Although the figures have not been officially ratified, it is estimated that the Wendy’s account is worth $400m in client billings, the North American 20th Fox account some $750m and Wal-Mart some $580m....
...Wal-Mart, for example, recently turned to a marketing man – Carter Cast, the former head of its website – when it created the position of head of strategy for its US stores....
...By contrast, 130m customers visit Wal-Mart stores each week in the US....
...and Carter Cast, head of Walmart.com, over the issue....
...It has also set up its own support group, Working Families for Wal-Mart, headed by Andrew Young, the former mayor of Atlanta and first black US ambassador to the United Nations, under President Jimmy Carter...
...Some 100 US companies, including Wal-Mart and McDonald’s, have already announced they will elect directors by majority voting at their next annual meeting....
...year, Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, kicked into action....
...“Right now, Hispanics have a greater affinity for Wal-Mart than any identifiable segment of the US population.”...
...Many of Brinkley’s heroes are those who cut through the bureaucracy, including the US Coast Guard, the only government agency to emerge from Katrina with credit; Wal-Mart, which moved supplies into the region...
...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....
...“Wal-Mart’s an important customer,” he said, adding that retailers and suppliers need one another and should work together. “Our customers and their shoppers are the same people.”...
...But investors may be heartened by its decision to enter the country through its small-scale convenience Tesco Express stores in a bid to sidestep head-on competition with Wal-Mart....
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