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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....
...First, higher wages can make employees more productive — Wal-Mart’s recent wage raises were justified on these grounds....
...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...
...He also notably avoided mentioning Wal-Mart, the US retail group that engenders opposition in many countries, and used instead its Indian joint venture name of Best Price when calling for India to open up...
...So what is to stop companies like, for example, Bharti Enterprises and Wal-Mart setting up an Indian controlled joint venture for their wholesale business and then forming a subsidiary for currently banned...
...He was also facing delays building up a retail store business in India with Wal-Mart (which would have been opening its first wholesale store this week in his home state of Punjab, were it not for religious-related...
...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....
...Yet Port St Lucie has remained true to its modest roots, more Wal-Mart than Valentino....
...The trust included holdings in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, oil companies, defence contractors, pharmaceutical groups, and Wal-Mart, the giant retailer on whose board Ms Clinton once sat....
...Wal-Mart has been given fair warning of what lies ahead....
...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....
...“Right now, Hispanics have a greater affinity for Wal-Mart than any identifiable segment of the US population.”...
...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.”...
...This is because several US titans – such as Wal-Mart and General Electric – topped out two years ago....
...They suggest that the packaging of many consumer electronics products lacks sophistication and is “unlikely to be acceptable to Wal-Mart”....
...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)....
...THE WAL-MART EFFECT: How an Out-of-Town Superstore Became a Superpower by Charles Fishman Allen Lane ₤12.99, 304 pages A brave attempt to provide a balanced account of the retail giant....
...I admire Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, for creating the world’s largest company by turnover and for showing that most people prefer a low cost option most of the time....
...Political analysts have described it as a test of strength between wealthy “Country Club Republicans”, who support Mr Riley’s pro-business policies, and rank and file “Wal-mart Republicans” who favour Mr...
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