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...Ahrendts, the former chief executive of luxury fashion group Burberry, had led Apple’s retail and online stores for the past five years. She will be replaced by Deirdre O’Brien....
...VinMart stores, for example, might make use of “smart cameras” to track how much time customers stay in a given section of the store....
...Wal-Mart Stores (Retail) 48. Home Depot (Consumer Goods) 49. Yahoo! (Technology) 50. Morgan Stanley (Finance) 51. Discovery Communications (Media) 52. Colgate-Palmolive (Consumer Goods) 53....
...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....
...steps up Argentina pressure * Rusal’s $43bn seven-year Glencore deal feeds feud * Embraer warns on US Air Force contract * Egypt halts gas supplies to Israel * Big fine for Hong Kong IPO sponsor * Wal-Mart...
...South Africa appeal court dismisses case against Wal-Mart’s Massmart deal Regulators’ approval of Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
...http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/115447dc-92c9-11e1-b6e2-00144feab49a.html WalMart workers freed after mislabeling charges Authorities in Chongqing, China, released two Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employees jailed...
...http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-23/wal-mart-bribery-probe-may-exposes-retailer-to-u-s-fines.html Bahrain F1 race completed amid tight security Bahrain’s Grand Prix passed off without major incident...
...Wal-Mart may open India retail stores Wal-Mart and Carrefour may gain access to the retail market of the world’s second most-populous country after an Indian government panel was said to have recommended...
...Li & Fung sources everything from T-shirts and anoraks to furniture and beauty products for western retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores and Toys R’ Us....
...Wal-Mart Stores is expected to compete in an auction against South Korea’s Lotte Shopping and private equity fund Carlyle Group to buy Indonesian retailer Matahari’s hypermarket busines, Reuters reports....
...That is why the biggest US and European chains – Wal-Mart, Metro, Carrefour, Hennes & Mauritz, Tesco and Bestbuy – must push for growth in developing markets....
...Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, opened a partly-owned cash-and-carry warehouse store in Punjab last month in a joint-venture with Bharti Enterprises, while Tesco and Carrefour are also planning joint...
...In the US, Wal-Mart has revamped its Great Value own-label brand in a bid to tap into the frugal zeitgeist....
...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....
...The retailer, in common with Wal-Mart, owns the majority of the land on which its stores and distribution centres stand, with less than 6 per cent of its properties currently under lease....
...• 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....
...Wal-Mart is slowing its expansion in the US and speeding up its growth overseas, opening its first wholesale stores in India this year....
...The retailer, which operates over 1,100 bookshops in the US, Australasia and Singapore, has been struggling to reposition itself in the face of low-cost competition from rivals including Wal-Mart and Amazon.com...
...Yet to judge by much of blue-collar Sam’s Club America (named after Wal-Mart’s discount cards), there are other, more distracting, things to worry about....
...But Wal-Mart provided some cheer....
...However, the S&P retail index climbed 3.7 per cent to 403.51 as analysts said weaker consumer spending was already priced in to many retail shares, Wal-Mart’s same-store sales rose only 0.5 per cent in...
...Brambles, the world’s biggest maker of pallets, fell by 4.7 per cent to A$8.28 after the retail giant Wal-mart said it would review its pallet policy....
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