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...Royal Mail appointed former Ocado executive Simon Thompson as its new UK chief....
...So Walmart created a platform called Project Gigaton that constantly scrutinises its suppliers, said Kathleen McLaughlin, Walmart’s head of sustainability....
...Tesco and Walmart are among the 30 companies that did not participate in the WDI on the terms requested for two consecutive years....
...Lentz joins from Thompson & Knight. Latham & Watkins has hired Meghan Cocci as a partner in the law firm’s corporate department....
...Sainsbury’s, the UK’s second-biggest food retailer, struck a deal to take over Walmart-owned Asda in April....
...Walmart did not respond to a request for comment. The WDI was set up by ShareAction, the responsible investment organisation....
...Thompson, a Briton who also chairs UK private equity group 3i, will take up the position in March, when Jan du Plessis steps down....
...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....
...star Regulatory oversight has not kept up with growth in premiums Indian banks: power to the consumer Private-sector lenders exposed to the consumer sector should outperform European takeovers: Macron v...
...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....
...We have implemented the largest decarbonisation project in Europe,” said Drax chief executive, Dorothy Thompson....
...The rebuffing of the bid made life harder for Aerojet, Mr Thompson added....
...But the real foretaste of the future – and digital hell – is with companies such as Walmart and Amazon, he claims....
...But not everyone sees the dilution of the yen effect as a huge blow for Japan Inc....
...ULA has stockpiled two years’ worth of RD180s for launches – and could switch more launches from the Atlas V to its more old-fashioned but wholly US-sourced Delta rockets....
...Walmart shares rose 0.2 per cent to $72.48....
...Target’s gain year-to-date has beaten Walmart’s performance....
...Bribery allegations dented Walmart’s folksy image Allegations that Walmart executives in Mexico orchestrated a bribery campaign to accelerate its expansion in the country highlighted the risks of emerging...
...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....
...(More on FT Alphaville) Former BBC director general Mark Thompson will become the New York Times’ next president and CEO, after an eight month search by the news company for a new chief (Reuters)....
...From the FT: Smartphones drive record Samsung profit Tablet contenders vie for iPad’s crown Walmart acquires app maker...
...It was joined by Game, the consumer goods store owned by America’s Walmart, Spar, a Netherlands-based supermarket chain, and Chigo, a Chinese retailer of electronics, among others, all looking to tap the...
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