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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....
...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....
...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...
...Walmex fourth-quarter profit jumps 26% Wal-Mart de Mexico, Mexico’s largest retailer, reported a 26 per cent leap in fourth-quarter profits as improving consumer confidence and aggressive store expansion...
...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...
...number of Wal-Mart stores around the country....
...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....
...The retailer has been trying hard to expand its footprints in emerging markets such as China, Russia and south-east Asia....
...Collective and Alshaya have a long-term objective of more than 300 Payless stores....
...Sure, it has performed less well in the downturn than competitor Wal-Mart, but two years ago Target was applauded for its skill in persuading consumers to buy higher-margin products....
...As Mr Muller says: “When a big chain opens next door, we can help [convenience store owners] fight off the competition” – which will be bad news for Wal-Mart if he is proved right....
...But it has struggled to cope with both increased low-cost competition from discount retailers, led by Wal-Mart, and from Amazon, the online retailer, amid a broader decline in book sales....
...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....
...Walgreens says it plans to operate more than 7,000 stores in 2010. The two drugstore chains have gained national scale as they face a growing competitive threat from Wal-Mart, the mass discounter....
...• 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....
...It has been two years since the first union was established at one of Wal-Mart’s 105 China stores – something the world’s largest retailer had long resisted....
...March same-store sales data again showed that Wal-Mart, Costco and other value-oriented vendors of staples are holding up well despite the consumer spending slowdown....
...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...
...Wal-Mart has 100 wholly-owned hypermarkets and an interest in a further 102 Trust-Mart stores after it struck a deal early last year to buy a 35 per cent stake in the local chain....
...If Nakumatt’s strategy mirrors that of any of its US peers, says Mr Ramamurthy, it is not Wal-Mart’s emphasis on offering the lowest prices to cash-strapped consumers, though some customers from slum areas...
...Dell this year ended more than two decades of near-exclusive reliance on direct sales of computers over the telephone and internet by striking sales deals with several retailers, including Wal-Mart....
...They claim the strategy is an attempt to split the alliance of US labour and environmental groups that has sought to slow Wal-Mart’s efforts to open new stores and has supported attempts to pass legislation...
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