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FT Magazine
How Walmart convinced critics it can sell more stuff and save the world
...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 . . ....
October 13, 2022
ReviewHistory books
Antwerp by Michael Pye — fragile fortunes
...English wool had woven much of the fabric of Antwerp’s prosperity. The city ousted Bruges and came by the mid-14th century to serve as a “department store for the wool traders”....
August 17, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
FT AlphavilleIPOs
The 6am Cut London
...Wal-mart is slowing its opening of new stores in China and Brazil after admitting it had made mistakes and let profitability slip in its haste to expand....
August 17, 2012
beyondbricsMarkets
Mexican regulators: all bark and no bite
...Schettino sought recently in the daily El Universal to put in context the investigation into alleged bribes paid by Wal-Mart executives to hasten planning permission in Mexico: What Walmart is said to have...
May 3, 2012
beyondbricsPrivate equity
Betting on Mexico’s middle class kids
...number of Wal-Mart stores around the country....
September 7, 2011
World
Foreign investment: Every little helps in the local culture
...Wal-Mart tries to stick to its own system and does not allow a local management style,” he says....
May 20, 2009
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
LexUS & Canadian companies
US retail zombies
...Wal-Mart, the discount superstore that reports fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday, seems to be the only retailer capable of growing consistently in this environment. Nor is there an end in sight....
February 16, 2009
Life & Arts
Shopping habits of China’s ‘suddenly wealthy’
...The company’s cheeses, which will soon include English cheddar, are being sold in supermarkets along the country’s east coast, including branches of Tesco and Wal-Mart....
August 21, 2009
News in-depthThe Big Read
Cash and carry promotion
...The idea of applying retailing skills – brand, supply chain efficiency, competitive pricing – to banking found its poster boy in Andy Hornby, a senior manager at Wal-Mart’s UK unit, Asda....
July 19, 2009
US & Canadian companies
Wal-Mart nibbles at online grocery sales
...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...
October 26, 2007
Work & Careers
Expansion into retail hindered by corner shops
...Wal-Mart makes a high-profile target for local groups, which argue that the US chain has a history of wiping out small high street stores....
July 10, 2007
Fund management
Axa’s rare insight into the Asian giants
...Bharti also partners the US mega-retailer Wal-Mart Stores in India, and has a big telecommunications business, Airtel, which is well known for its cricket sponsorship, and has more than 50m subscribers in...
December 10, 2007
ReviewFT Magazine
Descent into McHell
...McDonald’s or Wal-Mart wouldn’t have worked for the witty Coupland. Is life a big deal, or no big deal? Coupland throws back more “meaning of life” maxims than La Rochefoucauld....
September 28, 2007
UK retail results
Engaging India: The retail battle
...It has spearheaded a campaign that has blocked Wal-Mart from opening stores in Florida....
April 26, 2007
World
Engaging India: Gandhi v Wal-Mart
...Wal-Mart’s US floorspace after 45 years in business came to 600m sq ft as of October. India’s “mom and pop” stores are just as likely to be put to the wall by Reliance as by Wal-Mart....
February 7, 2007
FT Live
12th Annual Cross-Border Distribution Conference 2024
Thriving in an Unpredictable Environment
Thursday, 16 MayEuropean Convention Center Luxembourg, Place de l'Europe, Luxembourg
Hedge funds
Sealing the deal without the optimiser
...Wal-Mart, which had hoped to open a store in one of the city’s more working-class outer boroughs, meanwhile tried to play down Scott’s “Wal-Mart to City: Drop Dead” moment....
March 28, 2007
Retail & Consumer industry
Wal-Mart’s hard sell
...The politically connected Hasidim are, of course, not the only people living within the immediate vicinity of the proposed Wal-Mart store....
January 12, 2007
Sport
Hispanics attract fancy footwork by advertisers
...Wal-Mart has also launched football-themed marketing events at stores with significant Hispanic customers, with 155 stores participating in events that include setting up Astroturf football fields in the...
June 23, 2006
World
Profile: Sunil Bharti Mittal
...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....
November 27, 2006
Mergers & Acquisitions
World Food Business Summit
...“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.”...
June 23, 2006
Asia-Pacific equities
India’s retailing revolution
...Wal-Mart and Tesco would expand the market and bring sharper pricing but that is being resisted to guard these low-income retailers....
August 25, 2006
Life & Arts
Stuck in the middle
...India’s biggest industrial houses, including Reliance and Tata, have this year embarked on a breakneck bid to consolidate a fragmented and inefficient retailing sector before the likes of Wal-Mart and Tesco...
December 15, 2006
Work & Careers
Manic for the Hispanic market
...The group is also scheduled for a private performance with executives from Wal-Mart, one of the biggest US music retailers. In the meantime, RBD is finding more than enough support among US Hispanics....
June 26, 2006
World
Richard Tomkins: Why Wal-Mart is for the wealthy
...The one I particularly have in mind is Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s biggest retailer, which suddenly seems to be trying to take itself upmarket, at least in clothing, housewares and consumer electronics....
November 7, 2005
UK schools
Ask the expert: Tesco’s Sir Terry Leahy
...Tesco recently lost out to two local South Korean retailers in the auction for both Wal-Mart’s and Carrefour’s stores....
June 6, 2006

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