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...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the FT’s media editor...
...Large retailers including Wal-Mart and Best Buy have signed on to the experiment, which will offer stores a margin of 25 per cent over the wholesale price....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, US media editor 4....
...Sony has struck deals with large store chains such as Wal-Mart to make its readers available in 8,500 US retail outlets....
...EMI would not comment and Mr Wastell did not reply to an e-mail asking for comment but their talks come amid intensifying activity in music-themed merchandising....
...In this category, funds I co-manage own Berkshire Hathaway, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Wal-Mart, but the list of the best beaten-up blue chips today would also include Altria, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson...
...In September four models appeared at the end of Betsey Johnson’s New York women’s wear show stripped down to not much more than their briefs, with boards hung on their backs spelling out V-O-T-E....
...Wal-Mart’s US floorspace after 45 years in business came to 600m sq ft as of October. India’s “mom and pop” stores are just as likely to be put to the wall by Reliance as by Wal-Mart....
...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....
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