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...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 . . ....
...In Finance v Wal-Mart: Why are Financial Services so Expensive?, Mr Philippon crunches the numbers on costs for consumers....
...Chief executive Doug McMillon said: “We are pleased that we can see real progress stemming from our strategic choices and we appreciate the great work by our associates. Yet, we are not satisfied....
...Last week Asda, which is owned by US retail giant Wal-Mart, unveiled its steepest quarterly sales decline on record....
...Mr Clarke had previously hoped that a 4.7 per cent decline in sales during the second quarter of 2015 would mark a “nadir” for the company, which is owned by US retail giant Wal-Mart....
...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....
...Now let’s suppose that in the US, the chairman of Wal-Mart could become the chairman of Procter & Gamble. That would be an obvious case of conflict of interest and there would be no denying it....
...Wal-mart suit: The second largest U.S. public pension fund said on Thursday it had sued current and former executives and board members at Wal-Mart Stores Inc, alleging bribery and a cover-up in the company...
...Wal-Mart is a striking example of the shift in value from services to resources and heavy engineering, falling from 7 last year to 19....
...Lee Scott (former Wal-Mart CEO), members included Lloyd Blankfein (Goldman Sachs CEO), Sir John Bond (Vodafone chairman), Craig Barrett (Intel chairman) and Rajat Gupta (former worldwide MD, McKinsey)....
...Mr Buffett himself has pointed to retail giant Wal-Mart as a family business that successfully opted for professional managers after the death of Sam Walton, its founder, in 1992....
...Between 1998 and 2005 he worked for Wal-Mart’s international division, becoming chief operating officer in Germany....
...Between 1998 and 2005 he worked for Wal-Mart’s international division holding a range of commercial positions, rising to Chief Operating Officer in Germany....
...Furthermore, in youth she looked to her mother’s nephew, Charles V, for support, and as queen her chief adviser was his ambassador, Renard....
...The US mutual fund industry is keeping close tabs on the progress of more than 20 lawsuits that allege companies such as Wal-Mart, Lockheed Martin and Boeing breached their fiduciary duties to employees...
...Wal-Mart of the US, the world’s biggest retailer, is thought to have its eye on entering the Russian market. Yet the movement of goods has not been all one way....
...The opportunity turned out to be Wal-Mart....
...The pace will slow slightly as fewer superstore openings mean that the company expects to add only 22,000 “associates” (Wal-Mart’s chosen euphemism) compared with 38,000 in the last financial year....
...Andrea Thomas, who is in charge of the private label revamp project, said Wal-Mart was maintaining its overall strategy of delivering national brands at the lowest possible prices....
...So tough was the competition that Wal-Mart, the US retail group, three years ago gave up its plans to sell everything under one roof in Germany....
...Thomas Forester – whose defensive holdings such as Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola helped him become one of the few portfolio managers in the US whose fund made any money last year – is also sticking with the names...
...RFID, in particular, attracted a lot of attention at the beginning of the decade, with large retail groups such as Marks and Spencer and Wal-Mart using the technology to track goods in their warehouses and...
...conglomerate Viacom prior to its complex spin-off in 2004, narrowly avoided filing for bankruptcy in 2005 and 2006 as it struggled against cut-throat competition in DVD sales from diverse retailers including Wal-Mart...
...Talking to 47 Apple stores, 35 Best Buy ones and two Wal-Mart ones, they concluded “Apple continues to gain market share in PCs, smartphones and MP3 players, despite the challenge of higher price points...
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