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...Entire small cities and towns became significantly poorer when major manufacturing plants closed, union jobs were lost forever and cheaper prices at Walmart did not compensate for the loss....
...Unsurprisingly, too, she talks about music, what it did for her and others, how the “first true punks” — Siouxsie et al — came out of different suburbs (the so-called Bromley Contingent): though she didn...
...Wal-Mart’s annual meeting is at noon UK time....
...(Financial Times) Wal-Mart unlikely to bid (Bloomberg) Online ad company AppNexus became one of only a handful of NY start-ups to crack a valuation over $1bn after a new round of investment....
...South Africa appeal court dismisses case against Wal-Mart’s Massmart deal Regulators’ approval of Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
...Tesco is also the third-largest supermarket chain in the world, behind US giant Wal-Mart and French supermarket group Carrefour....
...Walmex fourth-quarter profit jumps 26% Wal-Mart de Mexico, Mexico’s largest retailer, reported a 26 per cent leap in fourth-quarter profits as improving consumer confidence and aggressive store expansion...
...Joining those political leaders will be business people such as Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, Muhtar Kent of Coca-Cola and Mike Duke, Wal-Mart’s chief executive....
...Such is the breadth of family businesses around the world that giants such as Fiat, Wal-Mart and Michelin can be bracketed alongside the small neighbourhood bakery or cycle repair shop....
...At Wal-Mart, for instance, more than 40 per cent of the online orders on the retailer’s website are sent for pick-up at a local store, as customers seek to avoid the costs and timing uncertainties of home...
...Wal-Mart, after joining the CDP, found that the refrigerants it used in its grocery stores made up a larger percentage of its footprint than its truck fleet. It is working on a solution....
...Wal-Mart also gained despite being downgraded by Citi from “buy” to “hold” over worries about a bill that will make it easier for workers to join unions. Its shares picked up 2,4 per cent to $48.67....
...Wal-Mart looks to Hispanic market 8. Billionaire Merckle commits suicide 9. Stanford vanishes as probe widens 10. Hollywood braced for budget cuts Back to the top World 1....
...Even then, the main local topic of discussion was not al-Qaeda or the invasion of Iraq, which still lay six months ahead – but the new Super Wal-Mart planned for the edge of town....
...And it is not just the Wal-Mart moms – this year’s hot political demographic – who are blaming greedy CEOs for the country’s economic woes....
...Rosemary Bak, another Wal-Mart shopper, was more specific. “He says he’s not Muslim but I don’t know if you can just turn it off like that,” she says....
...new-found aggressiveness of the official All China Federation of Trade Unions, which was not only unionising more and more companies but also striking collective bargaining agreements with the likes of Wal-Mart...
...Not a big deal on the face of it, but for the French group – the world’s second-biggest retailer after Wal-Mart of the US – the importance of its home market cannot be underestimated....
...Large companies, including household names such as Wal-Mart and General Electric, Ford and Coca-Cola, HSBC and News Corporation, made pledges to cut their greenhouse gas emissions and lessen their environmental...
...Wal-Mart’s example is likely to encourage more companies to do so, he said....
...In mid-November, Gregg Steinhaffel, president of Target, Wal-Mart’s discount rival, gave some indications that concerns were changing buying patterns....
...While that sort of sales pitch is commonplace from the likes of Wal-Mart and Target, you wouldn’t generally expect Boeing to be following suit....
...The City Refrigeration group now provides services such as refrigeration, engineering, cleaning, maintenance and even gardening and pest control to blue-chip clients that include Wal-Mart/Asda, Ladbrokes...
...But on Wednesday Clinton was playing compere for a distinguished panel that included Gore, along with two heads of state, the heads of the World Bank and Wal-Mart and South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu...
...The US has stepped up its nuclear security co-operation with Pakistan in the wake of Mr Khan’s activities, famously described as a “nuclear Wal-Mart” by Mohamed ElBaradei, the International Atomic Energy...
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