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...Indeed they do, if the success of this all-organic, all-fresh Santa Monica institution (with a second location in the Brentwood Country Mart) is any indication....
...Brands up 4.3 per cent Gap up 3.6 per cent Best Buy up 2.6 per cent Macy’s up 2.4 per cent Urban Outfitters, Target and Hanesbrands all up 2.3 per cent Wal-Mart up 1.6 per cent The quick turnaround...
...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....
...The federal budget should be a tool to encourage national investment, as it was when Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana and when Dwight Eisenhower built our super- highways....
...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...
...Tesco capitalised interest is equivalent to 27bp of sales last year: for Costco, another high growth freehold operator, it was 1bp, and for Wal-Mart 2bp Pension accounting – Include the IFRS standard in...
...His target in the advertisement was a man named Billy Tauzin, a former Republican lawmaker turned lobbyist from Louisiana....
...Those words were first uttered by Royal Mail chair Allan Leighton when he left Wal-Mart, the US owner of British supermarket-chain Asda, to take on a portfolio of directorships....
...Under the program, suppliers can sell their Wal-Mart invoices to the retailer’s partner banks, including Wells Fargo & Co. and Citigroup Inc., according to the letter, at interest rates based partly on Wal-Mart...
...Even the tween market’s key players, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, have tested the sartorial waters, through collaborations with Wal-Mart. But adults remain the more credible fashion forces....
...… I’ve been covering Wal-Mart as part of my beat for the FT since 2005, and I usually fly from New York in a commuter jet that takes just over three hours to arrive at the Alice L....
...Consumer staples – which had led the market lower in the previous session, when the latest batch of glum corporate earnings took in erstwhile defensive food companies – took comfort from Wal-Mart’s sales...
...Shares of Wal-Mart were down almost 10 per cent at $50.35 in pre-market trading on Thursday....
...Even Wal-Mart, which has outperformed its rivals since the summer, reported a lower-than-expected 1.7 per cent increase in same-store sales at its US stores....
...Wal-Mart’s shares are up over 18 months while the best-performing S&P 500 stock over the past year is cut-price Family Dollar Stores....
...Industry giant Wal-Mart was one of the few to post better than expected same-store sales figures for October....
...In another indication of the flux, Wal-Mart, P&G’s largest customer, is hiring a strategy executive whose tasks include assessing the potential effect of direct-to-consumer sales by its own suppliers....
...These include Wal-Mart, Metro, Carrefour, Kingfisher, Lidl and Rewe....
...Wal-Mart raised its profit forecast for the second quarter by two cents to 84 cents a share....
...But the worst performer over the period is the bellwether of the sector – Wal-Mart....
...The first step, as Wal-Mart found, is measurement....
...Wal-Mart bucked the industry trend and reported February results that improved on last year’s....
...Wal-Mart was one of the only exceptions as down-trading consumers allowed the discounter to escape a retail decline. Same-store sales beat expectations, helping the shares hold steady at $59.78....
...Household names such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard and L’Oreal boast programmes to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, use natural resources more efficiently, recycle more and...
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