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...Angel Payano Jr (Galleria Poggiali, €4,500-€14,000)....
...The retailer’s decision, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, follows unrest in parts of Philadelphia in recent days, sparked by the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr....
...“Arne was an exceptional executive — but more than that — he was an exceptional human being,” said Bill Marriott Jr, Marriott’s executive chairman....
...Walmart could also pursue a sale of Asda to private equity, but sector-watchers see several problems with this....
...Virgin Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow, that's the catch, baby. Suicide doors, [MUTED] around and crash, baby. I do the dash, baby....
...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....
...Lee Scott Jr., formerly Walmart’s chief executive, who retired from the board after the annual meeting last month....
...Lee Scott, former president and chief executive officer at Walmart, where Ms Mayer is a director....
...But the real foretaste of the future – and digital hell – is with companies such as Walmart and Amazon, he claims....
...JR Reagan is a principal at Deloitte and leads the HIVE (Highly Immersive Visual Environment)....
...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....
...Chief executive Eduardo Cojuangco Jr used to run San Miguel as a food and drink company; now, after diversifying into oil and power, it looks more like a highly leveraged conglomerate....
...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....
...Thor is billed as the latest film from “the studio that brought you Iron Man”, but it is also the latest film from the director who brought you Henry V and Hamlet....
...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...
...Related links: Securities and Exchange Commission v. David K. Donovan, Jr. and David R....
...“We made the show for Nick Jr [the pre-school version of Nickelodeon, an arm of Viacom] last year, it launched in February and in her first month, she was the number one pre-school girls’ show on the network...
...“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.”...
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