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...In her final year of study, she was also awarded the Young Masters Maylis grand ceramic prize and has since shown at the V&A, Christie’s and Collect at the Saatchi Gallery....
...Since then, though, he has published a cultural magazine, had an art installation on the island of Stromboli, wrapped the Selfridges store in Birmingham with 9,000 sq metres of printed canvas and is halfway...
...By the time Sam Walton opened his first Wal-mart in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, his playbook to build a global retail giant was already drafted....
...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...The city ousted Bruges and came by the mid-14th century to serve as a “department store for the wool traders”....
...More laidback are Osman’s multi-tiered black sequin trousers (€1,990) and Roksanda’s turquoise silk-organza maxi skirt (€6,300)....
...With streets empty, Amazon, Wal-Mart and local grocers sold out of key household items, networks jammed across the globe, SMB’s shuttered, and millions working from home, forced changes will have a lasting...
...Walmex, which this month released moderate sales growth in August with same-store sales up 5.9 per cent, but below the market consensus of 6.8 per cent, has nearly 2,400 stores in Mexico....
...In Finance v Wal-Mart: Why are Financial Services so Expensive?, Mr Philippon crunches the numbers on costs for consumers....
...When Woolworth was expelled in 1997, shortly after the closure of all the famous stores bearing its name in the US, it was replaced by Wal-Mart....
...VinMart stores, for example, might make use of “smart cameras” to track how much time customers stay in a given section of the store....
...Starting in February 2018, the company will shorten its name from “Wal-mart Stores, Inc.” to “Walmart Inc.”....
...Instead, he said the “biggest stumbling block to an approach like this” would likely be retailers like Wal-Mart....
...The second thing is that Wal-Mart is by far one of America's largest employers, and it's decided in the past couple of years that it needs to spend more and put more effort into making Wal-Mart a good place...
...Alice Walton was the highest placed woman, with a net worth of $38.2bn, ranking the heir to the Wal-Mart Stores fortune at 13 – the same position as last year....
...Tequila in $5.1bn deal (WSJ) Loeb demands ‘more urgency’ for disposals at Nestlé (FT) Richemont bids to take full control of Yoox Net-a-Porter (FT) Carlyle loses control of bankrupt US oil refinery (FT) Wal-Mart...
...Over the last two years Whole Foods’ sales figures have been languishing due to increasing competition in specialty foods from the likes of Kroger, Wal-Mart and Costco....
...the company this year has made several key investments, including forming a partnership with China’s JD.com, acquiring marketplace startup Jet.com and rolling out a mobile payments system across its US stores...
...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...
...And against Wal-Mart’s 4,700 stores, Whole Foods has 460....
...Adding to pricing pressure has been growing competition in the food-shopping sector, with big-box retailers like Wal-Mart — which has also recently pointed to pressures from food deflation — aiming to gobble...
...Among them, however, is the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, along with department stores like Macy’s, Kohl’s and TJX Cos....
...executive, BlackRock Bob Iger- chairman and chief executive, The Walt Disney Company Rich Lesser- president and chief executive, Boston Consulting Group Doug McMillon- president and chief executive, Wal-Mart...
...Mexican same store sales for December (that is, stores that have been in operation for more than a year), boosted sales by 9.1 per cent, above the market consensus of 7.1 per cent....
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