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...Lee Buchheit, a senior partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, is retiring after more than four decades at the firm. More here....
...climate deal exit) Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company (left after Paris climate deal exit) Rich Lesser, President and CEO, Boston Consulting Group Doug McMillon, President and CEO, 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...
...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....
...Mike Duke, the former head of Wal-Mart International who takes over as chief executive officer from Lee Scott next week, said in October last year that he believed that the gathering economic crisis had...
...Chief executive of Wal-Mart Lee Scott is returning to what he calls “the details”....
...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...
...It is two years since Lee Scott, Wal-Mart’s chief executive, announced that the company was embarking on a drive to improve its much-criticised reputation on issues such as its environmental impact, diversity...
...“We need this foreign presence,” said de Castro, pointing out that Italy does not have a Wal-Mart, Carrefour or Tesco to promote its brands abroad....
...Sueng Lee, Wal-Mart China’s supply chain director, jumps out of the people carrier, lights a cigarette and admires his latest piece of kit – a new 40,000 sq m distribution centre in Kengzi, an hour’s drive...
...Happy whatever So Christmas is coming back to Wal-Mart....
...The party branch has been set up in Wal-Mart’s store in Shenyang, in the north-east. Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, said the committee had been set up on August 12....
...Home Depot, the second largest US retailer, has also been looking for possible partners in China, while Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, has been steadily expanding its presence there....
...Wal-Mart has also launched football-themed marketing events at stores with significant Hispanic customers, with 155 stores participating in events that include setting up Astroturf football fields in the...
...When Wal-Mart reduced their packaging 5%, they made $3.4 million, so they’re just announcing a new healthcare plan and I was talking to Lee Scott today, and he told me about another company where the CEO...
...Toys R Us, the world’s largest speciality toy retailer, was slowly dying under competition from discounters such as Wal-Mart....
...Most Controversial The Waltons $78.9bn, Wal-Mart Bentonville, Arkansas What began in the 1960s as a family chain of variety stores in Arkansas has morphed into a global empire with 6,500 low-cost supermart...
...For every high-profile arrival in Korea this year, there seems to have been an even more prominent exit – international retailers and consumer goods companies including Wal-Mart Stores, Carrefour, Pfizer...
...Tesco recently lost out to two local South Korean retailers in the auction for both Wal-Mart’s and Carrefour’s stores....
...Meanwhile, Lee Scott, Wal-Mart’s chief executive, said in October that the retailer, which is currently testing clinics at 12 of its stores, wants to move towards setting up basic healthcare clinics in all...
...As Wal-Mart eyes further international expansion, it is turning to George, the brand it acquired with its purchase of the UK's Asda in 1999, to help revitalise sluggish sales at its more than 3,000 US stores...
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