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...Marketers are increasingly “asking retailers to prove” how much value is added by such advertising, says Paul Frampton, global president of digital marketing consultancy Control v Exposed....
...We just saw the FTC take on Walmart in a new case....
...following the lead of Morgan Stanley, which shifted its business mix after the 2008 financial crisis with the purchases of wealth manager Smith Barney, online trading platform ETrade and asset manager Eaton...
...Morgan Stanley is integrating the chunky acquisitions of trading platform ETrade and US investment manager Eaton Vance — the latter of which created one of the world’s biggest asset managers....
...US president Joe Biden has persuaded Walmart, UPS and FedEx to extend their working hours to ease the country’s supply chain woes....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...(Siobhan Riding) Chart of the day In its acquisition of Eaton Vance, Morgan Stanley also bought Calvert Investments, which is the third-largest sustainable fund firm through the second quarter of 2020,...
...Retailers Walmart and Best Buy, and industrial groups Newell Brands and Mattel, are likely to be “the largest users” of such services, said Panjiva, the supply chain intelligence unit of S&P....
...(Billy Nauman) US chiefs find their voice on gun violence It is 23 years since Walmart banned a Sheryl Crow album that featured lyrics about children killing each other “with a gun they bought at the Walmart...
...Also, US regulators rewrite the Volcker rule, Facebook launches a new privacy tool pilot and Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel fires....
...The pair's first target: ecommerce, where rivals Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart dominate. (FT) Is AI the future of call centres?...
...(FT) Walmart v Amazon Few retailers are coping better with the relentless rise of Amazon than the country’s largest retailer Walmart....
...These factors mean that what was supposed to be a V-shaped trajectory in AxJ would look more U-shaped....
...If there’s a V-shaped recovery on the horizon “the market probably buys the EPS downgrade, assuming that the disruption is eventually contained.”...
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...Walmart’s like-for-like US sales rose 4.2 per cent in the three months to the end of January and that’s powered a nice bump in its shares today....
...The day ahead US retail earnings Investors are set to gain more insight into the US retail landscape with the earnings results of JCPenney, Nordstrom and Walmart on Thursday....
...Comment from Arun on Asda deal frees Walmart to focus elsewhere Walmart hasn’t had a great story in India so far....
...It’s an apt name for the Supreme Court’s latest terrible decision, the 5-4 ruling in Janus v AFSCME, which will defund what is left of America’s union movement....
...For most of this century the very large companies such as United Airlines and Walmart have squeezed their suppliers....
...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....
...Tetrick shudders at the V-word. “Like ketchup is a vegan product,” he says defensively. Just’s vision is not to have its products adopted only by vegan San Franciscans....
...Walmart has looked to discount its prices, even for organic groceries, to retain market share....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...The Trump administration’s promised tax revolution has also triggered a corporate civil war between importers (such as Walmart) and exporters (such as GE) in the US....
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