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...Jefferson River Capital, a family office that invests on behalf of Tony James, vice-chairman of Blackstone Group, has hired Bill Helm as head of real estate investments, according to Bloomberg....
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...Walmart has looked to discount its prices, even for organic groceries, to retain market share....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...Walmart acquired discount stores Wertkauf and Interspar in 1997 but after nine years it conceded defeat, sold 85 stores to Metro AG and incurred a loss of $1bn....
...But the real foretaste of the future – and digital hell – is with companies such as Walmart and Amazon, he claims....
...Target’s gain year-to-date has beaten Walmart’s performance....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...Food minister K V Thomas said the government would allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, paving the way for retail giants like Walmart and Tesco to enter the market....
...The Supreme Court will rule, not on the merits of the case, known as Dukes v Walmart, but on Walmart’s claim that the class is too broadly constituted, and that the complaints should be brought on a more...
...The case, Dukes v Walmart, was originally brought in the names of seven former female employees, but includes affidavits from some 120 Walmart employees, arguing that the company’s male-dominated culture...
...In the latest development in the saga of investment banks v munis in re derivatives, a judge ruled on Thursday that a dozen financial institutions will have to defend themselves against allegations of bid...
...“The customer is not about just cheap,” Mike Duke, chief executive of Walmart, the nation’s ultimate low-cost shopping destination, said last month....
...“This is a wake up call for the equity bulls and the V shaped recovery bulls.”...
...Sam’s Club, which targets both small businesses and families, has expanded its offering of non-perishable items, which now includes Campbell’s V-8 juice, Kellogg’s snack bars, dried fruit and popcorn, as...
...The store manager at Walmart in Monroe, New York, said, “Every week it’s been something different that someone’s looking for.”...
...This is particularly true at a time of mounting chauvinistic pride in the achievements of India Inc. on the world stage, so evident in last week’s euphoria over Tata Steel’s successful bid for Corus....
...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....
...The economic crisis proved the trigger for a renewed burst of reforms under the Congress government of P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then finance minister, Manmohan Singh....
...Verizon, the wireless provider, has been broadcasting video clips of goals and key moments from each game to subscribers to its new V-cast service, under a deal with Univision, the broadcaster that holds...
...Protesters interrupted a speech she gave in Chicago at the weekend and last night they were planning to hound her at the site of a fundraiser in Manhattan, billed as an “evening with President William Jefferson...
...Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson parishpresident , reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been and is was still blocking his relief supplies to this Louisiana district: “We had...
...But the Bentonville Library Foundation must be weighing the fate of Houston's Enron Field and Jefferson State Community College's Richard M. Scrushy campus....
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