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...The free museum’s location in Bentonville, Arkansas, is also the headquarters of the US retailer....
...“When he leaves it will be like when Alex Ferguson left Manchester United . . . It is impossible to overstate how BlackRock’s journey is the journey of a single man.”...
...In October last year, agents at a Texas checkpoint stopped an ambulance taking Rosa Maria Hernández, a 10-year-old with cerebral palsy, to emergency gallbladder surgery at a hospital in Corpus Christi....
...Walmart has cut its sales forecast for this year, pinning the blame on a strong dollar even as its US business shows further sign of recovery....
...Another example is Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s advice to KfW IPEX-Bank on the financing of the world’s first flex steel mill plant, at $1.3bn the largest private investment ever in Arkansas....
...At 10am, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, will face questions from MPs about the central bank’s contingency plans for a Brexit when he testifies to parliament....
...Reprinted by permission of Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc....
...Matthew Campbell from Arkansas and Michael Hurley from Oregon filed the lawsuit on behalf of all American users who have sent a link via a private message....
...The company has never said publicly that Mr Duke or other senior executives at its Arkansas headquarters did not know of the allegations by 2005....
...While Randolph was central to setting up the original business, he was edged out by Hastings in 1999....
...Both built their retail empires from scratch, starting in provincial towns – Galitsky in Krasnodar and Walton in Newport, Arkansas....
...Some independent investors have blamed the tight-knit culture, which is exemplified by the annual meeting at an Arkansas sports stadium, for fostering the alleged corruption in Mexico....
...insiders steeped in the ‘Walmart way’,” said John Liu, the New York City comptroller who oversees five public pension funds that will vote against certain Walmart directors at the retailer’s annual meeting in Arkansas...
...In a separate statement from Walmart headquarters in Arkansas, the group said: “We are committed to having a strong and effective global compliance program, which includes anti-corruption, in every country...
...On Wednesday it named its new head of compliance for the US anti-bribery law as Tom Gean, who joined Walmart’s legal department in 2004 and was previously US attorney for the western district of Arkansas...
...Speaking recently to the annual meeting of Greater Louisville Inc, the city’s chamber of commerce, Mr Immelt reflected that all the warm feelings about GE’s job creation would count for nothing if he could...
...I was hired in 1957, when I was a physiotherapist working with children with cerebral palsy in the Gorbals in Glasgow....
...are already central to its global portfolio....
...political opposition to the expansion of the Arkansas-based retailer in the city....
...In the first nine months of 2010, operating earnings amounted to $184m on sales of $1.29bn. Following the deal, ABB will combine its US motors and generators operations with Baldor’s in Arkansas....
...Mr Duke told an audience of 16,000 employees and shareholders at the annual meeting in Arkansas that technology could help Walmart grow to reach that goal during the next 20 years, increasing from the 200m...
...It was featured by Jon Stewart, Comedy Central late-night television satirist, under the caption “Don’t mess with textbooks”, a reference to the state’s old “Don’t mess with Texas” bumper stickers....
...Indeed, the central danger of a deflationary economic environment is that consumers continually expect prices to fall, meaning price-cutting no longer stimulates extra sales and profitability is slowly eroded...
...and clearing houses are in the United States or elsewhere.”...
...retailer on the planet has inspired volumes from both breathless admirers and bitter critics, charting its rise to dominance in the US and beyond since Sam Walton opened a discount store in north-west Arkansas...
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