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...In October, the Connecticut company agreed to pay Aetna, the health insurer, $1.45bn for an employee benefits business....
...Its headquarters are on the 12th floor of the iconic Art Deco building the Merchandise Mart, which was historically the home of Chicago’s wholesale goods business....
...More significantly, Wal-Mart has also indicated that it is interested in exploring the creation of smaller format stores focused on health, potentially joining the drugstores in their neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood...
...Wal-Mart recently hired Jack Sinclair, a veteran of the UK grocery industry, to head its supermarket business....
...Wal-Mart added 3.1 per cent to $59.06 while Starbucks rose 7.4 per cent to $15.13. In industrials, some solid earnings news helped steady investor concerns about the health of the economy....
...These are people, says Bageant, who “cannot, and do not care to, find Iraq or France on a map – assuming they even own an atlas …Here, nearly everyone over the age of 50 has serious health problems, credit...
...The health insurer also raised its earnings outlook for 2007....
...The strikes were called over proposed reductions in health benefits that the companies said were needed to fight compete with Wal-Mart, which is not unionised....
...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....
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