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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....
...John Reed is the FT’s south-east Asia correspondent and Bangkok bureau chief This article has been amended to reflect that Vingroup will not be the exclusive sponsor of Vietnam’s first Formula 1 race next...
...and didn’t take strong enough action, corporate governance experts told Bloomberg. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-23/wal-mart-bribery-probe-may-exposes-retailer-to-u-s-fines.html Bahrain F1 race...
...South Africa appeal court dismisses case against Wal-Mart’s Massmart deal Regulators’ approval of Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
...http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-23/wal-mart-bribery-probe-may-exposes-retailer-to-u-s-fines.html Bahrain F1 race completed amid tight security Bahrain’s Grand Prix passed off without major incident...
...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...
...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....
...Analysts expect the acquisition race to boost Times’s share price further, raising the retailer’s price tag....
...Yet to judge by much of blue-collar Sam’s Club America (named after Wal-Mart’s discount cards), there are other, more distracting, things to worry about....
...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...
...Tesco, lagging behind international rivals Wal-Mart and Carrefour in the race to roll out hypermarkets across China, has adopted a multi-format approach in some of its other markets such as Thailand, Hungary...
...Pulling into the parking lot of Mardel’s Christian & Education bookstore, a chain with Wal-Mart-sized shops, Jim says: “Look at all these supposedly Christian people parked in the handicapped spaces.”...
...“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....
...Mr Fujimori said the GE-Wal-Mart venture would focus on card issuance in Wal-Mart stores in southern China....
...River Garden is not far from a busy Wal-Mart store, whose presence is a remarkable break from the past....
...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....
...He admits that allowing greater FDI in the $300bn retail sector is “not a priority” for his government and blames the opposition for whipping up fears that allowing in the likes of Wal-Mart and Tesco will...
...Lianhua, Wal-Mart and Carrefour declined to comment. Trust-mart was unavailable for comment....
...“It’s really been a two-man race between Publix and Wal-Mart,” says Mr Marks, who shops for groceries at Publix or Wal-Mart....
...THE WAL-MART EFFECT: How an Out-of-Town Superstore Became a Superpower by Charles Fishman Allen Lane ₤12.99, 304 pages A brave attempt to provide a balanced account of the retail giant....
...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...
...Albertson’s latest quarterly results, announced yesterday, reflected the continuing pressures on the retailer and other conventional supermarkets in the US from Wal-Mart and other discounters....
...He has told his creative directors that they will be judged in part by their in-store ideas. "Tomorrow's heroes will be those who reconfigured a Wal-Mart [store]," he says....
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