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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....
...I’m also pretty optimistic about the future of mags. I don’t think they will sell as many as they did. But I think that they will continue.”...
...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...
...Grant Pattison, Massmart chief executive, said the company – already present in 14 countries – planned to expand in Nigeria and to move into new markets including Angola, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic...
...The conference is not until next year, but with the help of the immediate network at Fuqua, speakers from P&G, Showtime, Coleman, Wal-Mart and Wells Fargo have already agreed to attend....
...Andy Bond remembers clearly the day 10 years ago that he learned that Wal-Mart was to acquire Asda, where he was then a senior manager....
...A new Indian parliamentary committee report strikes a high-minded tone in the sensitive debate about allowing global retail giants such as Wal-Mart, Tesco and Carrefour to deepen their involvement in the...
...Wal-Mart, the largest private employer in the US, which has a staunch anti-union record, has already made its opposition clear....
...But while it makes grants of up to $5m to a national organisations such as United Way and college scholarship funds, Wal-Mart has traditionally given much of its money in grants of a few hundred dollars...
...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....
...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....
...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....
...argue that the US is not ideal for microfinance because red tape and the tax system makes it harder to set up businesses there than in developing countries, and competition is much fiercer from the local Wal-Mart...
...Wal-Mart has been given fair warning of what lies ahead....
...Last year it established a cell in the local arm of Wal-Mart, a citadel of US-style capitalism. Private sector workers find few ideological inconveniences in party membership....
...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....
...This month, Tate & Lyle, the UK-based sugar and sweetener group, became the 10th foreign company to list on OTCQX International, joining Wal Mart de Mexico and Day Software, which is listed on the SWX Swiss...
...They’re our Tiger Mart....
...No one has ever gone into Wal-Mart to buy a refreshing snack to keep the doctor away and come out by mistake with a computer or Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band....
...Retail is a point of contention for multi-brand international chains such as Wal-Mart and Tesco which must seek Indian partners to enter the fast-growing Indian market....
...The new group might also be better placed to combat Wal-Mart’s recent initiative to sell generic drugs cheaply....
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