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...However we also expect more employment pressures from later this year to affect the earning power of younger shoppers. Valuation pricing in a V-shaped recovery....
...opportunities and inconvenient transport links to business hubs....
...Subsequent commentary from the European Commission gives us further confidence that the Fund will be launched as (broadly) proposed....
...VinMart stores, for example, might make use of “smart cameras” to track how much time customers stay in a given section of the store....
...climate deal exit) Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company (left after Paris climate deal exit) Rich Lesser, President and CEO, Boston Consulting Group Doug McMillon, President and CEO, Wal-Mart...
...Mr Charney, who founded American Apparel in 1997, has been dogged by tales of inappropriate behaviour, and the company has settled sexual harassment claims with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
...They have triggered investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the US justice department as well as an internal Walmart inquiry....
...Retailer Wal-Mart, for example, employs older staff in its shops....
...as Wal-Mart or Aldi to save money, using more discount coupons and buying retailers’ own-brand products instead of branded goods from companies such as Procter & Gamble and Unilever....
...Wal-Mart provided one of the few sales bright spots and shares in the discounter rose 1.3 per cent to $55.11. But others also enjoyed substantial gains....
...• Funds managed by Mr Tilson own Berkshire Hathaway, McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Amex, Target, Crosstex Energy, Atlas Pipeline Partners, Leucadia National, Wendy’s and EchoStar Corporation....
...Britain’s second-biggest grocer, owned by Wal-Mart of the US, said the Commission’s proposal of a “competition test” would help it almost double the number of stores it opened every year....
...Costco and Wal-Mart, the US retail giants, were forced last month to limit the amount of basmati rice any one customer could buy from their warehouse stores after rumours of a shortage triggered a stampede...
...Last year, it also published in full for the first time its annual report on gender and race to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – something sought by activist shareholders for four years....
...Large foreign retailers, such as Carrefour, Tesco and Wal-Mart, have failed to make progress in India because of rules barring foreign direct investment in stores selling goods under more than one brand....
...If the neighbourhood stores are going to be threatened, they will be by Mukesh Ambani and Kishore Biyani just as much as by Wal-Mart or Carrefour....
...This year her remarks on equal opportunity, which included calling for Wal-Mart “to be fair to every woman around the world”, were warmly applauded, as was a resolution calling for employees to be “rewarded...
...Analysts said the acquisition price was reasonable for Shinsaegae, which has agreed to secure the employment of all Wal-Mart Korea’s employees....
...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....
...“You don’t talk to a retailer like Wal-Mart and not expect them to understand exactly how their customers are getting to the store.”...
...In particular, Wal-Mart Stores of the US and Britain’s Tesco are noted for commanding positions in their domestic markets and super-efficient global management of their supply chains....
...Once seen as a possible future chief executive, Mr Coughlin was until recently responsible for the US operations of Wal-Mart Discount Stores, Supercenters, Neighborhood Markets, and Sam's Clubs, as well...
...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)....
...But now the power is shifting to Wal-Mart and a handful of other big stores that are able to squeeze the suppliers," says Mr Pirko....
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